BY JENNIFER RUTH If you haven’t yet read Silke-Maria Weineck’s May 20 article in the Chronicle, “The Tenure Denial of Nikole Hannah-Jones is Craven and Dangerous,” please go do so. The University of Michigan professor of German and comparative literature minces no words, as her first two sentences make immediately clear: The news that the University…
BY HANK REICHMAN Today I was on a Zoom call with someone who only half-jokingly referred to the periodical Teen Vogue as the country’s leading socialist publication. While the magazine still focuses on “fashion, beauty, and entertainment news for teens,” its coverage of politics–and of higher education–has been remarkable. Take, for example, this piece published…
BY UNC HUSSMAN FACULTY As Hussman School of Journalism and Media faculty, we are stunned at the failure to award tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize, Peabody, and MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” winner and UNC-Chapel Hill 2019 Distinguished Alumna recently inducted into the North Carolina Media and Journalism Hall of Fame. This was reported…
BY HANK REICHMAN In the current issue of Academe magazine I reviewed a new book, Free City! The Fight for San Francisco’s City College and Education for All. It’s a terrific book, which details the five-year fight to save the college from an over-aggressive accrediting agency and expand access. I had previously posted frequently about…
BY JOHN K. WILSON North Dakota has approved a new law to banish abortion rights advocates from public colleges in an extraordinary assault on academic freedom that violates the First Amendment. On May 7, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum made a line-item veto of SB 2030. Gov. Burgum did make a partial veto of the…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following statement and list of demands is seeking support. For a full list of current signatories and to sign go here. For more coverage of the pending closure of Mills College and the faculty response go here and here. Also, you can watch this powerful video presentation to Mills…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This news release is from the AAUP chapter at the University of Akron: The University of Akron Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (Akron-AAUP) has created a one-time donation fund, the “Akron-AAUP Faculty Care Fund”. The fund is an act of support for the 66 University of Akron (UA)…
BY HANK REICHMAN In a January 2018 political philosophy class at Shawnee State University in Ohio Professor Nicholas Meriwether addressed a trans woman as “sir.” It was an accident, but when the student approached him after class to request that she be called “Ms.” like other women in the class, Meriwether refused, claiming that his…
BY PAUL A. DILLER Many universities throughout the United States are mandating COVID-19 vaccines for students, faculty, and staff. The pandemic and associated restrictions have battered many segments of society, and higher education has not been immune. Social distancing, online courses, mask wearing, and the cancellation of sports and activities significantly disrupted the campus experience;…
BY HANK REICHMAN Calbright College, California’s ridiculously named and fully online community college, graduated just 12 of its 900-plus students in its first year and saw more than 40% of them drop out, according to a scathing report released May 11 by the California State Auditor. The college, which expects to receive more than $175…