BY GAIL STYGALL Guest blogger Gail Stygall is a Professor of English at the University of Washington-Seattle. This is crossposted on Daily Kos. What is a university? What is a college? Fundamentally, a university is its faculty and students. At its heart, a university’s fundamental task is for its faculty to provide an education, as they…

BY AARON BARLOW 10:00 AM. I’ve just returned from the start of the rally and picketing going on (until 1:00 PM this afternoon) at the Long Island University branch in Brooklyn at Flatbush and DeKalb–in front of what once was the Paramount Theater. There are, perhaps, 150 people protesting right now, which isn’t bad, given…

BY DEBORAH MUTNICK Guest blogger Deborah Mutnick is  a long-time professor at Long Island University’s Brooklyn, NY campus. As of 12:00 a.m., Saturday, September 3, my colleagues and I were locked out of our University in the midst of contract negotiations between our faculty union and management. The letter I got from the administration told…