BY JENNIFER RUTH We at Academe blog have a number of posts discussing the legislation attempting to restrict curricula teaching race and gender justice and critical race theory. See here, here, here, and here. “This is the new McCarthyism,” historian Ellen Schrecker has written. The AAUP itself has put out a number of statements criticizing…
BY THE AAUP Fall 2021 | Vol. 107, No. 4 The fall 2021 issue of Academe surveys the present state of academic governance. It includes a new report on findings of the 2021 AAUP Shared Governance Survey, firsthand accounts of governance struggles on campuses around the country, and a pair of articles that confront the threat posed…
BY HANK REICHMAN Today all eyes in higher education are on Georgia, where the state Board of Regents has voted to all but eliminate the protections of tenure for all faculty in that state’s public colleges and universities, thereby inviting the AAUP to make good on its pledge to investigate and, ultimately, censure that board. …
BY JASON STANLEY Yale University is a central democratic institution, a fact recognized by its tax-exempt status. It provides a forum in which society’s most difficult issues can be confronted and freely discussed. The University educator is thus tasked with presenting their students with intellectually rigorous foundational challenges to tradition; that is the role of…
POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH As readers of this blog and so likely AAUP members, you may already know about one of the two events. On October 2nd, Chair of the AAUP Racial Justice Committee Glinda Rawls wrote members about the AAPF Call to Action Teach-in on October 14th: National Critical Race Theory Teach In Thursday,…
BY HANK REICHMAN If I may be excused a moment of self-promotion, today marks the official publication date of my new book, Understanding Academic Freedom. My purpose in writing Understanding was to provide a concise (the book is just 205 pages minus notes and index) and accessible introduction to the concept of academic freedom as…
BY JOHN HIGGINS A central aim of the newly published monograph Democracy and the Discourse on Relevance: Within the academic profession at Makerere University is to seek to get hold of an animating contradiction at work in global higher education policy by looking at the impact of global higher education policies on the academic profession as it…
BY ERIC SMAW Recently, the Florida state legislature passed House Bill 233, which requires the state Board of Education and Board of Governors to conduct an annual survey of students and professors at public colleges and universities to determine if they feel comfortable expressing their viewpoints in the classroom. State Rep. Spencer Roach, who sponsored…
BY STEVE O’KANE Politics and morality are strange bedfellows. The famous sentence from Anna Karenina comes to mind: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Sometimes the night passes in restful harmony, the temperature is just right, the pillows are soft, the lights are out, and not a…
BY ALEX ZUKAS In a recent Academe Blog post, Eva Cherniavsky wrote, “As we enter a fourth decade of life in the neoliberal university, where permanent austerity rules everywhere except in the swelling ranks of upper administration; where the pretense of shared governance has all but collapsed; where tenure lines are vanishing (particularly in the…