Paul Yager Professor, Bioengineering Dear Colleagues; I and my laboratory members have been talking about nothing but the Katze case for well over 24 hours now. This case is both infuriating and humiliating—perhaps the worst in my 29 years at UW. I think we are angry about two t[...]
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July 11th, 2016 - 1:06 am § in Misc.
Due Process at the University Of Washington
April 30th, 2015 - 11:06 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
AAUP Investigation Condemns Phyllis Wise and UI for Violating Steve Salaita’s Academic Freedom
In a nutshell, the national AAUP has found that there is no evidence that Phyllis Wise made her decision about Salaita based on any valid concern with his scholarship. What basis could there be other than pressure from advocates for Israel? This is not new behavior to those of us w[...]
April 22nd, 2015 - 9:58 am § in Misc.
Another Salaita? The Witch Hunt at Northwest Nazarene University
Last March, the day before April Fools, Tom Oord got an email saying he was fired. Karl W. Giberson , a former professor at an evangelical Christian college. reports of evangelical colleague whose tenure was terminated fired because of a conflict not with other faculty or students but because[...]
And so it goes … another UW President rides off
The Seattle Times Reports that Michael Young Has Been Offered The Presidency of Texas A&M The reason’s for Young’s leaving are not known. However, he had stated that A REASON FOR COMING HERE WAS THE HUGE LEVEL OF PRESTRIGE THE UW AS A RESERACH INSTITUTION. As the current legislatu[...]
September 9th, 2014 - 4:18 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
A Fruitless Attack on Salaita’s Academic Work
According to a report in Tablet, a liberal Jewish website, Steven Salaita’s appointment at University of Illinois was to a job in Illinois’ American Indian Studies Department. However, the author Liel Leibovitz was unable to find any evidence that Salaita had published an[...]
September 5th, 2014 - 9:44 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
The Animal Farm Model for Running a University
U. of Illinois Chancellor, Phyllis Wise, after a less than exemplary ethical record as the UW Provost, now faces faculty outrage over the dismissal of a Palestiniam American as a candidate for the UI faculty. Steven G. Salaita is well known as a critic of Israel. Controversy erupted last month w[...]
January 6th, 2014 - 2:15 pm § in Misc.
A Former Dean Comments on the “Freedom and Responsibility Proposal” at UW
David Dale Professor of Medicine Former Dean, School of Medicine After your call last week, I reviewed the pending code changes. I apologize that I did not get back to you, just very busy at this time. My feeling is that the language changes are ok, though there is still vagueness to the wording a[...]
North Korea: Of Family Feuds and Attorneys
Young Un Drunk, Machine Guns Uncle, Lawyers Do Nothing The story of this public family feud continues. Then only good thing I can imagine coming from this is that it may finally force China to intervene. Letting a paranoid delusional play with other people’s lives and property can not be goo[...]
December 18th, 2013 - 9:33 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
UW Senate Operates Like the Soviet Duma
Why doesn’t the UW faculty understand that democracy requires open discussion? This AM I received the following email that made me quite angry. The message: Voting Faculty, At its meeting on December 5, 2013, the Faculty Senate approved legislation that revises the Faculty Code on principles o[...]
Proposed Revisions To UW Faculty Code.
HOW WELL DOES THE UW FACULTY CODE PROTECT ACADEMIC DREEDOM? A proposal (see document) has been sent to the UW faculty to revise our Code to address protections for Faculty Free Speech. My own opinion is that the proposal is weak and may even decrease faculty rights. The UW faculty do not ha[...]