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Topic: Academe blog
100 Years of AAUP
Differences between conservative and liberal opinions of the AAUP and how it has stuck (or not) to their 1915 Declaration.
Rutgers Faculty Opposes “Academic Inquiry”
Academics generally resist most attempts to invade their sanctum. Nevertheless, although they may share an elastic definition of “scholarship,” they do make legitimate points about arbitrary efforts to solve the often real crises in higher…
Update on China’s Detention of Labor Activists
Via the AAUP’s Academe Blog, here’s the background: On December 3, authorities detained 20 labor activists in Guangdong Province. Four have been placed under criminal charge, several are unaccounted for, and the rest have been…
Wilson, Du Bois, and Who is Worth Honoring
Guest blogger Jonathan Marks teaches political philosophy at Ursinus College. Corey Robin, a professor of political science at Brooklyn College, concludes a recent piece in Salon by imagining how Princeton might distance itself from its former…
Academia Mistreating the Disabled
Good take from the Academe Blog.
Tim Wolfe Resigns from the University of Missouri
John K. Wilson on the American Association of University Professors blog offered his own interesting take on the UMizzou controversy: Tim Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri, resigned this morning under intense pressure. I’m…
Where Student Loans = Revenue for Colleges, Universities
Eye-opening chart from the Academe Blog, who cited a Brookings Institute chart.
David Brooks Falling Apart
The AAUP’s Academe Blog tackles one of David Brooks’ latest pieces. It’s worth a read.
Academia’s Binder Full of Women
In the last presidential election, the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, received much derision when he announced in a debate that as governor of Massachusetts, his team assembled “a binderful of women” as the top applicants…