BY MALAKA SHWAIKH AND REBECCA RUTH GOULD February 2017 was a watershed month for the Palestine advocacy movement in the UK, although we only later came to realize its significance in our own lives. That month, amid a wave of cancellations of events critical of Israel, we were smeared in mainstream and local print and…
BY THE COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE OF AKRON-AAUP The members of the University of Akron Chapter of The American Association of University Professors have voted to not ratify the proposed collective bargaining agreement with The University of Akron Board of Trustees. The electronic balloting process ended at 1pm, Wednesday August 5th. The University’s Board of Trustees had…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following video press conference featured faculty members from AAUP chapters in the Midwest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL3NIwdQDsk&feature=youtu.be. This coalition of AAUP chapter’s has a website at https://midwestaaupdocs.wordpress.com/about/. That website prominently includes the following statement on “Protecting Lives, Promoting Education: Principles for Reopening Campuses”: We are a coalition of American Association of University Professors…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Several weeks ago, Tom Rooney, the treasurer of the Wright State chapter, spoke at an event inaugurating the UD Solidarity effort at the University of Dayton, which is focused on insuring that the university carefully weighs the pros and cons of re-opening. Tom made the following remarks: As I stand before…
BY LINDA KIM, DREXEL AAUP Guest blogger Linda Kim is associate professor of art history at Drexel University.
BY THE WAYNE COLLEGE REDUCTION IN FORCE (RIF) FACULTY HIT LIST On July 15, 2020, the Board of Trustees, in consultation with the administration, at the University of Akron (UA) chose to eliminate ninety-six bargaining unit faculty. Those of us on that list of cut faculty call ourselves the Hit List. Although there are satellite…
BY EVONN WELTON In 2011, The University of Akron received an award from the American Psychological Association for being a healthy workplace environment. What a profound and sad irony that in less than ten years, it has become a place of financial hardship, possible injustices, fear, anxiety, and pitting faculty against faculty. It has become…
POSTED BY MARTY KICH As he has been doing for faculty at institutions across the United States for two decades, past AAUP president Rudy Fichtenbaum has provided a financial analysis to the AAUP chapter at the University of Akron. He has distilled the main points of that analysis into the following short video: https://akronaaup.org/uas-budget-presentation-dr-rudy-fichtenbaum-responds/. The…
BY HARRY R. LEWIS Harry Lewis is Gordon McKay Research Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, and former Dean of Harvard College. This essay is reposted from his blog. I used to visit Hong Kong regularly, and also made a few trips to mainland China. One of those trips put me in a provincial…
POSTED BY MARTY KICH On July 15, the University of Akron Board of Trustees, at the recommendation of President Gary Miller, terminated the employment of ninety-seven full-time faculty members. When factoring in retirements, this results in the loss of over one hundred faculty. The Board and President must rescind this decision or resign their positions.…