This is a guest post by Miranda Merklein, a contributor to the recent September-October issue of Academe. Merklein is the acting president of the Santa Fe Community College-AAUP chapter, where she works as an adjunct professor. She also teaches at Northern New Mexico College. Follow her on Twitter @MirandaMerklein. The organizing drive really picked up over the…
I came across a CNBC article on trends in business education. At first, I misread the article’s title and mistakenly thought that someone was proposing a 25-year MBA program. That seemed to me, of course, a shocking inversion of the current trends, one which would give a whole new meaning to the phrase the “career…
Developers have been surrounding Chinese largest cities with upscale suburbs modeled on the major cities of Europe and North America. Not all of these “themed” developments have been equally successful, but they have attracted international media attention, especially in those nations whose urban landmarks have been replicated. Bianca Bosker has just contributed an article to…
The following is the opening of an article that Nicholas Carlson has written for Business Week, in which he explains how he used Evernote to write a 90,000+-word book called Marissa Meyer and the Fight to Save Yahoo. I am not necessarily promoting the use of this particular software, but I think that the slideshow…
In 2013, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom documented the banning of 307 books in locations across the United States. The ten most frequently banned books of 2013 were the following: Captain Underpants (Series), by Dav Pilkey. Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison.…
Blevins, Win. Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse. New York: Forge, 1995. Win Blevins has been writing full-time since the early 1970s, but it has taken him some time to find the subject that has given his fiction focus and force. He had written several historical novels about the West…
The following is an op-ed piece prepared by the Berkeley Faculty Association, which was published today in the Daily Californian, an independent student-run newspaper that covers both the University of California, Berkeley campus and the city of Berkeley. This fall, the campus celebrates the achievements of the 1964 student movement that made Berkeley famous for…
This is a guest post by Ron Bramhall, a contributor to the recent September-October issue of Academe. Bramhall is a senior instructor in the Charles H. Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon. He teaches business leadership and communication, and the legal environment of business. He represents the interests of approximately 950 contingent faculty as…
Should instructors allow students in their classes to use electronic media devices — laptops, tablets, smartphones — in class? That question has often been a hot one among teaching faculty and opinions vary widely. Recently Clay Shirky, who teaches telecommunications and journalism at New York University, decided after many years to ban the devices from…
This is a letter from the University of Iowa AAUP chapter to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise seeking reinstatement of Professor Steven Salaita. It is admirable that an AAUP chapter from another campus would engage itself in this manner. I think chapter solidarity in upholding AAUP principles and statements is essential in affirming the…