File under: no good comes of corporatizing universities. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
Marking Passover by creating new plagues.
Is anyone following arrests and suspensions at Columbia and Barnard? Shafik is usually the focus but worth noting that Barnard Pres Rosenbury is responsible for the majority of student suspensions. As of now, roughly 2% of the Barnard student body has been suspended without investigation or hearing.
Read and remember these names. These are the people whose electoral opponents we should support through the summer and fall. www.jezebel.com/145-gop-memb...
NEW: Nearly 150 Republicans in Congress asked the Supreme Court to slash access to the abortion pill by ending telehealth prescriptions—even in states w/ legal abortion. They cite the Comstock Act of 1873 which bans mailing abortifacients. Full list of lawmakers here: www.jezebel.com/145-gop-memb...
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
The assault on academe moves north. As part of its "restructuring," Manhattan College is eliminating tenured positions and pressuring faculty to leave. www.chronicle.com/article/as-m...chng.it/tv4RJk5bjc
I am pleased to announce a new issue of Imaginaries. "Ethical Scholarship: An Imaginaries Reading List for the Israel-Palestine Conflict" includes links to past reviews of fictions and memoirs about relations between Jews and Muslims in the French-speaking world. h-france.net/imaginaries/
Pleased to announce a new issue of Imaginaries, devoted to film adaptations of classic novels. Two by Balzac-- Lost Illusions and Eugénie Grandet-- and one by Joseph Zobel-- La Rue Cases-Nègres h-france.net/imaginaries/
Graduate advisors have a responsibility to support doctoral students who increasingly pursue non-professorial careers. Join us for "More than a Safety Net--A Bridge," a @WestFrenchHist event on 11/9 at 10am EST. Link to registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/more-than-...
A flipped conversation with current PhD students moderating a panel of faculty on supporting those with non-professorial careers.