The e-mail that I am reproducing below has just been disseminated by “Making Change at Walmart,” the employee organization that is trying to pressure Walmart into providing more of its employees with living wages and decent benefits. It serves to reinforce my ongoing complaints about the Obama administration’s seeming obliviousness to the messages that it…
It’s been a bit more than two months since I’ve posted on the continuing conflict between faculty, staff, and students at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), which has threatened to revoke CCSF’s accreditation on what many — including San Francisco’s City Attorney and other…
This is my fourth post on Bobby Jindal in the past month or two. I don’t believe that this focus on him represents some sort of undue obsession with him or a vendetta against him. Instead, I think that I have coincidentally and simply become more aware of what has been occurring in Louisiana under…
During the NCAA men’s basketball season, the Kansas Jayhawks were losing to their arch-rivals, the Missouri Tigers. Ostensibly to inspire the team, a female KU fan took a “selfie” of her considerable cleavage and posted it at #KUBOOBS. The KUBOOBS website (so, yes, the tweet quickly became a website; who could have predicted that that…
The following guest post is by Diane Morrison, a professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work. Reach her at dmm@uw.edu. It originally appeared on Labor Notes and is reposted here with permission. In May of last year I answered my phone, at work in Seattle, and found myself talking to a union…
We are, I hope, going to be hearing a lot about this study (follow the links to download the report itself) over the next few weeks. We already are, to some degree. The study, from Gallup, Purdue University, and the Lumina Foundation, concludes that: if graduates recalled having a professor who cared about them as a…
(John M. Mecklin, ca. 1940, Courtesy of Dartmouth College Library) That the AAUP made academic freedom its early focus, which happened largely by accident rather than design, was due to events surrounding its founding. If there was one academic freedom case before the founding that was specifically responsible for setting the course of the Association,…
Yes, some charter schools, especially those run by non-profit foundations, are excellent and ought to be acknowledged for that excellence. But to declare that this week is National Charter Schools Week, as the Obama administration has done, not only ignores the often dismal performance of corporate charter schools—the sham that they provide any sort of…
The Huffington Post recently ran an item listing the “ten weirdest college clubs.” I think that the word “odd” is more appropriate in this case, for “weird” has associations with perversity (though not just sexual perversity) and strange obsessions and these clubs seem, for the most part, to be much more whimsical. The clubs include:…
Benghazi Attack: 4 Killed 10 Wounded Diplomatic Mission and CIA Compound Burned