Republicans in the Indiana Senate & IN House Committee on Education have now passed this a House floor ✅ vote would gut DEI efforts, stack Trustee Boards with state appointees, and let boards fire "tenured" profs for "any other criteria established by Boards of Trustees" apnews.com/article/indi...
This Friday we’ll be at Haverford College for this important symposium on the role of universities in democracy, featuring a fantastic line-up including Christopher Rogers, Donna Merch, and @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.
Mellon Symposium 2024 Organized by Andy Hines and Dennis Hogan Friday, February 23, 2024 10:00 a.m.—5:30 p.m. Jump To: Schedule Participants Organizers US universities play a variety of roles in the
Join us on February 27th for a conversation with Janice Bellace on graduate workers’ right to organize
simply stellar! philly people, get there!
Meanwhile the institution of tenure is collapsing on and around us.
"Inequality remains an issue in higher education, not just with the student population but with professors. Only a small % of professors on most college campus are Black women. Those we spoke with say part of the problem is in the pipeline." www-nbcwashington-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcw...
Inequality remains an issue in higher education, not just with the student population but with professors. Only a small percentage of professors on most college campus are Black women. Those we spoke ...
Things that we've learned this week from WV*U: - we shouldn't criticize the university in public; as state employees, we can be punished for doing so - we should report critical social media posts - there’s a new hotline for reporting fraud and ethics violations - they're changing all the locks
This Friday we’ll be at Haverford College for this important symposium on the role of universities in democracy, featuring a fantastic line-up including Christopher Rogers, Donna Merch, and @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.
Mellon Symposium 2024 Organized by Andy Hines and Dennis Hogan Friday, February 23, 2024 10:00 a.m.—5:30 p.m. Jump To: Schedule Participants Organizers US universities play a variety of roles in the
Another campaign of targeted harassment now seeks to silence a faculty member, while the interim president adds fuel to the fire and attacks academic freedom, violating our university’s own policies. Read our letter to Penn admin here aaup-penn.org/letter-on-th...
We write to express our concern about the targeted harassment of Annenberg faculty member Dwayne Booth, as well as Interim President Jameson’s dangerous and unwarranted response to it. Both constitute...
Another campaign of targeted harassment now seeks to silence a faculty member, while the interim president adds fuel to the fire and attacks academic freedom, violating our university’s own policies. Read our letter to Penn admin here aaup-penn.org/letter-on-th...
We write to express our concern about the targeted harassment of Annenberg faculty member Dwayne Booth, as well as Interim President Jameson’s dangerous and unwarranted response to it. Both constitute...
“We’re here to stand up for some very simple principles that make a university a university.... Universities are not autocracies, and we are not subjects. Decisions about academic life are ours to make as educators and researchers — and don’t belong to CEOs, trustees, or politicians.”
Thank you to all who came out in the cold to stand for academic freedom at Penn yesterday. We are just getting started!
Marc Rowan’s letter to university trustees questioned whether Penn should eliminate academic departments and implement new qualifications for faculty.