BY REBECCA E. KARL This post is part of a blog series, organized by Annelise Orleck, that will focus on recent crackdowns on protests at US college and university campuses against Israel’s war on Gaza. You can read the first post and an introduction to the series here. The NYU administration dissimulates and even prevaricates.…
BY NOËLLE MCAFEE This post is the first in a blog series, organized by Annelise Orleck, that focuses on recent crackdowns on protests at US college and university campuses against Israel’s war on Gaza. You can read other posts in the series at the links below: “On the New Guidance and Expectations of Student Conduct…
BY ALAN SINGER In times of crisis, academics must be public intellectuals. Why invest our lives in becoming experts in history, society, policy, science, or any other field of study and then remain isolated in an academic cocoon for safety or career advancement? The consequences of silence for our profession and our society are too…
BY HANK REICHMAN Yesterday, September 19, the Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA) filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) complaint charging the university with violations of legally protected faculty employee expression surrounding the war in Gaza. I posted a summary of the complaint to this blog yesterday. To access the full 581-page (including…
BY HANK REICHMAN Today, as the UC Regents were completing their meeting at the UCLA campus, the Council of University of California Faculty Associations (CUCFA), a partner of the AAUP, and the faculty associations at UC Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Cruz filed an amended unfair labor practice (ULP) complaint against…
BY SAM NOVEY AND MICHAEL ROSENBLUM We are sharing a unique, non-partisan opportunity for all faculty to bolster voter participation in this critical time. The Nonpartisan College Voter Registration and Education Project aims to increase student voter registration and turnout by asking faculty to devote five minutes of class time to voter education and on-the-spot…
BY TAMARA JACKA Since October 2023, students on campuses across Australia have been protesting in large numbers in solidarity with Palestine and against universities’ complicity in Israeli occupation and genocidal violence in Palestine. In April and May of this year, Palestine solidarity encampments were set up at eleven campuses. These were peaceful protest encampments, whose…
BY JONATHAN REES I swear the first time I heard about AI in the way that that term is being used lately is when John Oliver married a cabbage. Then, because this was before the great Twitter exodus happened, just about everyone in my feed started posting absolutely ridiculous essays they got when they started…
BY JANE S. GABIN Despite the heroic efforts of union organizers, higher education in this country remains a discouraging miasma for applicants, teachers, and families. Representatives of national groups who could take steps to stop or reverse this trend seem unwilling or unable to do so. Several years ago, the president of the National Association…
BY MATTHEW BOEDY A first-of-its-kind survey of higher education faculty across the South has revealed that an overwhelming majority of respondents in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas are deeply dissatisfied with the current state of higher education. The survey, which received responses from nearly 3,000…