One of the many ironies or paradoxes of life in academia is that freedom of speech never is more complex than when it is discussed by people who speak for a living.
Topic: Academe blog
AAUP Dishes On Duncan
It is worthy of note when someone from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) criticizes a Democratic U. S. Secretary of Education, even if the latter’s tenure has expired.
Are Colleges Finally Experiencing Supply & Demand?
And will it lead to an understanding of the economics the rest of us live with?
Graduate Students Make Strategic Retreat
Can it be that the Resistance, at least on the academic side, is realizing that President Trump may serve at least one full term?
Twitter Breaks Up Women’s Studies Department at Montclair State
Twitter is exposing academics in ways never before possible, not through the tweets of such as we but through their own pronouncements as they succumb to the apparently irresistible urge to be “public intellectuals.”
Let’s Be a Little More Careful, Please
Aaron Barlow at the Academe Blog talks about how academics often dismiss the heartland of America as “hillbillies” and trash, which they should not do.
Purdue Professors Unhappy with President’s Acquisition of For-Profit Kaplan University
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels is being criticized by professors and faculty members for buying Kaplan University for a myriad of reasons, as well as being called names.
Class Warfare Among College Professors & Adjuncts?
Class warfare, or more like class struggles, are hitting academics and college professors as adjuncts are not being paid fairly, in their mind.
Why Shouting Down Speakers is Absolutely Wrong
At the Academe Blog, John K. Wilson writes about why shouting down speakers is absolutely wrong because it continues to polarize the country and it plays into the Right’s hands: Shouting down speakers, such as…
Research Universities File Brief against Donald Trump’s Executive Order
Interesting development from academia, where universities signed onto an amicus brief against President Trump’s executive order on refugee vetting.
Faculty Lounge
CSU-Fresno Professor On Leave after Tweeting Joy at former First Lady Barbara Bush’s Passing
College Professor Doused NRA Lobbyist’s House with Fake Blood
LGBT Activist goes to Harvard, Interprets Bible as Approving of Monogamous, Gay Relationships
Student Government Puts CRs on I.C.E., I.C.E. Baby
CUNY Law School Dean: Eight-Minute Disruptive Protests during Guest Speech is ‘Reasonable Exercise’ of Free Speech
Black Lives Matter Exposed
Book Review
Fact-Checking History’s First Draft
Journalism, the old cliché goes, is the first draft of history. Unfortunately, it rarely gets through rewrites before it hits the classroom. Yesterday’s headlines often look a bit silly when viewed through a microfiche, and…
Coming to a university near you
Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
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