The current turmoil on a few college campuses has, of course, led many of us to generalize, to maintain that there’s a new student radicalism in the air, that the chickens of neoliberal disruption are coming home to roost, that coddled and ‘trigger warned’ youths are finally seeing the ‘real’ world and are retreating to…
Cornwell, Patricia. Post-Mortem. New York: 1990. An award-winning investigative journalist, Cornwell’s first book was a well-received biography of Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, published in the mid-1980s. She subsequently worked as a technical writer and computer analyst with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. This experience inspired…
We have been told that charter schools are needed as an alternative to our public schools because our public schools are failing to prepare our children for meaningful immediate employment or for higher education. Of course, despite massive taxpayer subsidies, selective enrollment policies, and the misreporting of the results of standardized tests and other assessments,…
The Kent State Chapter of AAUP is conducting a strike authorization vote between November 18 and November 22. In an article for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Karen Farkas has provided a succinct summary of the events leading to this vote: “The current three-year contract expired Aug. 23. Kent State’s AAUP has about 450 members. “On…
This resolution is the second of four presented and unanimously endorsed at The Ohio Conference annual meeting on November 7. Whereas members of the Ohio Conference AAUP harbor a grave concern that our colleagues in Wisconsin have lost tenure protections and collective bargaining rights; Whereas the members of the Ohio Conference AAUP believe that for…
About a week ago, Business Insider reported that the Arizona Highway Department had found a mysterious device at the edge of field along a highway. Here are the clues provided by the device itself and a summary the initial speculation about its most likely purpose: 1. It is made of solid steel. 2. It has…
This resolution is the first of four presented and unanimously endorsed at The Ohio Conference annual meeting on November 7. Opposition to House Bill 160 Whereas the Ohio Conference AAUP has concerns over textbook costs; Whereas House Bill 160 does not address how we might be able to control those costs; Whereas the royalties…
The following is reposted from the AAUP website: On November 13, 2015, the AAUP filed with the American Federation of Teachers an amicus brief before the US Supreme Court arguing that the payment of agency fees by non-members in collective bargaining unions to support union representation is constitutional. The case started when the plaintiffs, sponsored…
The following brief statement, approved by AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure on October 30, pulls together existing AAUP policies on academic due process for non-tenure-track full-time faculty members after seven years of service. Academic Due Process for Non-Tenure-Track Full-Time Faculty Members* after Seven Years of Service Since its founding in 1915, the…
This is the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Faculty Association statement on the Steven Salaita settlement with the University of Illinois. The CFA, which has pursued with vigor and determination the right to organise the entire University of Illinois faculty into a union, has previously commented on the AAUP investigation and censure. The following statement on the…