Akron Represents a Crisis. It Is Not an Anomaly.

BY MARTIN KICH The current situation at the University of Akron is extreme but nonetheless illustrative of the situations developing at many of our college and university campuses across the state of Ohio and the nation. At Akron, the administration and Board are attempting to use a force majeure clause in the faculty contract to…

Being on the Hit List at Akron

BY SUE RAMLO My name is Sue Ramlo, and I am on the cut list—or as I like to call it, the Hit List.  There are ninety-six of us on the Hit List, over 70 percent of these faculty are tenured faculty members at The University of Akron (UA), as I wrote about in yesterday’s…