Turkish Academy of Sciences to Lose Its Independence The decree, issued on 27th August, which was just after the start of a nine-day holiday in Turkey, says that one-third of the members of the academy will now be appointed by the government and a further one-third by the Council of Higher Education[...]
Archive for September 19th, 2011
A UW Graduate Writes About Howard, I. Self Segregation
Dear AAUP: Just a note as a lurking alumna. I got my Ph. D. from Slavic Languages in 2001. I worked as a Mellon Post-Doc at Emory University the two years after that. Since then, I have mostly been working as a lecturer at Howard University in Washington DC, a HBCU. HBCU stands for Historically Bla[...]
Obama Clinton 2012 —> Clinton 2016?
Biden offers nothing to Obama as a running mate. Clinton not only adds to the ticket in 2012, she offers a clear choice for 2106. A poll, reported below in Bloomberg, gives a convincing argument. What the poll can not do is point out the very real accomplishments of Mrs. Clinton. She has great[...]