AAUP Chapter at Miami University Hosts Presentation by Howard Bunsis
In the late afternoon on Thursday, September 24, between 80 and 100 faculty and students at Miami University attended a presentation by CBC Chair Howard Bunsis on the university’s finances. The event was hosted by the relatively new but quickly growing AAUP advocacy chapter at the university. The presentation received fairly detailed coverage in the…
Four Things to Know about the Debate over Guns
1. Who Is Getting Killed with Guns and Why 2. The Dramatic Increase in Gun Sales in the U.S. 3. Where the NRA Now Generates More than Half of Its Revenue Here, according to Walter Hickey in an article published in Business Insider, is a breakdown of where the NRA generates its revenue: “In…
U.S. Higher Education News for September 28, 2015
The Christian Science Monitor includes a commentary on how universities and colleges are trying to measure the development of their graduates critical-thinking skills. It turns out that Mitch Daniels was concerned that Purdue University could not demonstrate that its graduates had acquired significantly improved critical-thinking skills. So he convinced the Association of American Colleges &…
Out with the Old, In with More of the Same Old Thing
Today, it has been announced that Arne Duncan, who has “rescued public education” by promoting the expansion of corporate-operated charter schools and corporate-provided standardized testing, is leaving his post as Secretary of Education. That would be cause for a deep sigh of relief, if not a loud cheer—except that his replacement will be John B.…
Course on 9-11 at the University of North Carolina Attacked by Young Republicans and the Pope Center
At the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Neel Ahuja is teaching a course on the literature related to the 9-11 terrorist attacks. In response to concerns raised by both the Young Republicans group on the campus and by the Pope Center, the Faculty Council has issued a resolution unanimously affirming the academic integrity of…
Women Don't Do This: Why Blaming Mental Illness, Violent Video Games, and Gun Laws Won't Stop Another Mass Shooting
I originally wrote this back in June in the wake of the Charleston shootings, but sadly, the claims made here still ring true. We will never solve the problem of mass shootings in this country unless we get to the root of this problem. This is not about gun laws. This is not about violent…
"The Greatest Threat to Campus Free Speech"
Last week the AAUP and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) issued a statement protesting remarks made by University of California Regent Richard Blum, which threatened negative political consequences for the University if it did not approve a policy on alleged anti-semitic speech acceptable to him and his wife, U.S. Senator Dianne…
Think Outside the Box and Publish an Index
By Caprice Lawless, VP for Community Colleges, Colorado Conference, AAUP Adjunct faculty, especially, are pressed for the time to research their institution, to learn how the moving parts work (or don’t), and where the money is going. Do it for them. Publish an index. Take a look at ours (link below) to give you some…
CFA and PSC Fighting for Faculty
Two AAUP/AAUP-CBC affiliates — the California Faculty Association (CFA), which represents over 23,000 faculty members in the 23-campus California State University (CSU), and the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), which represents more than 25,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the CUNY Research Foundation — are engaged in protracted contract…