This is a guest post by Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, author of the article “Academia, Academe, and Intellectual Property” in the new November-December 2015 issue of Academe. She is a professor of professional writing at Michigan State University and the 2015–16 junior chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Intellectual Property Caucus. A while back, I was mad. Incensed…
Looking ahead to the second century of the AAUP’s existence, the November-December issue of Academe includes two articles that select a specific year as a springboard for imagining the future of higher education. While both articles acknowledge the impossibility of predicting the future accurately, they each offer insights into current attitudes that may influence the…
I don’t wish to exaggerate the illustrative implications of a single incident, but the following story from the Washington Post does suggests many of the most obvious reasons why permitting guns on our campuses is a dangerous idea: “Washington College closed its Maryland campus Tuesday morning until further notice as police and the FBI intensified…
Culminating AAUP’s centennial year, the November-December issue of Academe looks forward to the future. My lead article asks, “Does Academic Freedom Have a Future?” I argue that AAUP can look back with pride on its efforts to support academic freedom. Thanks to our Association, today “even the enemies of academic freedom are often compelled to…
Yesterday more than a thousand California State University (CSU) faculty members, students, and their supporters marched through Long Beach, California to the CSU Office of the Chancellor, where the CSU Board of Trustees was meeting, to rally and voice their support for the California Faculty’s Association’s “Fight for Five.” After years of declining real salaries,…
The following is taken from a media release issued by the AAUP: On November 17, the American Association of University Professors released a report on severe departures from generally accepted standards of academic governance at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey. The report was written by former AAUP president Robert A. Gorman, an emeritus…
BY CAPRICE LAWLESS NOTE: We like the new AAUP “One Faculty” membership brochure. We wanted to customize it for our membership tables to give it a little edge, a little street cred for our audience. This is the copy for the two-sided, letter-sized insert that we fold into it so that the title extends just…
Apparently today has been declared by someone to be national Take a Hike Day. I am quite certain that this designation of the day is intended to encourage people to step out into the great outdoors–to take deep drafts of the crisp Autumn air into their lungs as they exercise and to bring into their…
Tomorrow members and supporters of the AAUP-affiliated California Faculty Association will gather at the California State University Chancellor’s Office, where the CSU Board of Trustees will be meeting, to urge the trustees and their Chancellor, Timothy White, to meet the faculty’s demand for a much-belated and even more-deserved salary increase. It’s not too late to…
The following post is by Michael Meranze, Professor of History at UCLA, and is reposted (with some minor clarifications of terms for non-Californians) from Michael’s and Chris Newfield’s Remaking the University blog. Since the ten-campus UC system is the largest research university system in the U.S., its troubled finances should be of some interest to…