The Other Blog

The Other Blog

I finally commented on my forthcoming book about the troubles of the public university, but it's on my other blog. What the hell - the university book is about the undeclared cold war on the mass middle-class (the whole bottom 80% or so), so this won't be the last cross-blog collisio...

Duke Lacrosse Revisited

Duke Lacrosse Revisited

This is the story that wouldn't die. If you've completely missed this one, don't start now, so I won't fill you in. But notable events of the last 12 months include:rape charges against the Duke Lacrosse team players were dropped almost exactly a year ago, at the end of December 2006. North Carolina's attorney general threw out all remaining charges in April 2007.the county...

Actually Telling the Truth

Actually Telling the Truth

One big thing universities do is draw conclusions that are based on evidence. The evidence has to be looked at carefully, sifted, compared, refined, and tested. It's basic, boring, indispensable stuff. It allows you to say something relatively true.The contrasting case is the world of American political claims. "Spin" is too kind a word. The journalist Michael Tomasky analyzes...

Employee Benefits

Employee Benefits

2019 Silo Thinking and the Runaway Train on Retiree Health Care (UCLAFA 6/25/19) Retiree Healthcare Benefits Are a Target for Cost Cutting Once Again at UCOP (UCDFA 6/19) More on the Runaway Retiree Health Care Train (UCLAFA 6/14/19) UCLA Emeriti Assn. Statement to Regents on Proposed Privatization of Retiree Health (UCLAFA 6/11/19) Support for UC Workers (Signature Collection...

Corruption at UC Davis

Corruption at UC Davis

2017 Academic Tenure or Public vs Private Reasons?...Katehi- raising more new questions (Cloudminder 4/2/17) UC Spent Nearly $1 Million in Probe of Former UC Davis Chancellor Katehi (Sac Bee 3/24/17) Seat at the Table (UCLAFA 3/1/17) 2016 Dispute Between Chancellor and System President Clouds UC-Davis in Controversy (CHE 6/10/16) Katehi holds tenure at UC Davis, can’t be fired...

Steven Salaita v. University of Illinois

Steven Salaita v. University of Illinois

2016 Academic Freedom 2.0 (The Good Enough Professor 4/15/16) 2015 U. of Illinois Will Pay Salaita $600,000 to Settle Lawsuits (CHE 11/12/15) Sign the Statement of Academics on the Settlement of Professor Steven Salaita’s Lawsuit Against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (11/11/15) Illinois Reaches Tentative Settlement With Salaita (IHE 11/10/15) Another Lesson...

2015 UC Tuition Hikes

2015 UC Tuition Hikes

2015 To Fix California's Colleges, Reform Prop. 13 by Taxing Corporations More (LAT 11/2/15) UC Students, Administrators Come to Preliminary Agreement on Tuition Hike Policy (Daily Cal 10/7/15) UC Law Students Celebrate Exemption from Supplemental Fee Increases (LAT 5/25/15) Ara Shirinian: California Budget Revision would Compromise Quality of UC Education (Daily Bruin 5/19/15) The...

University of Missouri

University of Missouri

2018 Administrators, Students and Activists Take Stock Three Years After 2015 Missouri Protests (IHE 9/12/18) 2016 Missouri Board Rejects Melissa Click's Appeal (IHE 3/16/16) University of Missouri Struggles to Bridge Its Racial Divide (NYT 2/3/16) GOP Lawmakers Want Mizzou Professor Fired (IHE 1/5/16) 2015 Missouri Lawmaker Wants To Revoke Scholarships If Athletes Protest...

Contingent Faculty Issues

Contingent Faculty Issues

2019 The Revenge of the Poverty-Stricken College Professors Is Underway in Florida. And It's Big. (Splinter 6/19/19) A Union Fight at Marquette University (Jacobin 5/21/19) Adjuncts at Mercy, Occidental Form Unions (IHE 5/16/19) Privilege, Guilt, Responsibility, and Contingent Labor (IHE 4/11/19) Letter: Contingent Faculty are Marginalized (Duke Chronicle 4/5/19) Federal Appellate...

Vergara v. California

Vergara v. California

2016 In a Major Win For Teachers Unions, California Supreme Court Lets Teacher Tenure Ruling Stand (LAT 8/23/16) Vergara Reversed! (Academe Blog 4/14/16) 2014 New York Educators Fight Back on Attacks to Tenure (NYT 7/29/14) Tenure Haters’ Big Delusion: Why Campbell Brown and Bo. are Wrong About Teaching (Salon 7/16/14) The Big Money Behind California's Tenure Lawsuit (Truthout...

Program Cuts & Closures

Program Cuts & Closures

2019 Cuts Leave Concerns for Liberal Arts at Tulsa (IHE 6/6/19) What Really Happened at Stanford University Press: an Insider’s Account (CHE 5/10/19) Stevens Point Abandons Controversial Plan to Cut Liberal Arts Majors Including History and Foreign Languages (IHE 4/11/19) Stanford University Press—And All It Stands For—Is In Peril. (Save SUP 4/19) To Help Students, Colleges...