A dialog from from AAUP listserv GAUTHAM P. REDDY to Faculty Amy, Congratulations on undertaking this fascinating and innovative study that demonstrates the benefit that unions have provided (and likely will continue to provide) for working people in our nation. It is unfortunate that union members[...]
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Michael Katze, UW Professor, charged with sex abuse
Norm Arkans, the UW public relations spokesman, has announced that UW virus researcher Michael Katze is being charged with sexual harassment. “His conduct was inappropriate and not in any way reflective of the university’s values,” UW spokesman Norm Arkans said today in a statement posted[...]
UW cuts teaching history, philosophy, anthropology, political science, geography, and sociology
Setting aside the lack of publicized enrollment data, the rationale for cutting TA positions is rooted in the university’s market-based, neoliberal budgeting model. Rod Palmquist, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Geography The College of Arts and Sciences is facing a long-term budget shortfall of $1[...]
June 17th, 2016 - 1:07 am § in Misc.
Nicklesville on the UW Campus
My own main argument for having tent city on campus is that it is another form of teaching. That said, I feel guilty abut how little I expect the UW to actually do about the underlying issues. I may recommend reading Major Barbara before reading the exchanges here about the Tent City. There ha[...]
April 22nd, 2016 - 2:35 pm § in The Ave Scene, UW
UW abolishes shared governance III: A response by the President
Dear Chris, It is simply NOT fair to ask someone to do the job of Provost this long – he’s already completed one year and would complete at a minimum about 2 1/2 if I started a national search now – with an “interim” title. I’m not defending Jerry against anything[...]
UW abolishes shared governance
Dear UW faculty colleagues, The following message has been approved by the AAUP executive board for distribution to faculty. UW President Ana Mari Cauce circulated an email to faculty, staff and students (14th April) stating the current interim Provost Baldasty has performed in his role for the last[...]
UW abolishes shared governance II: A response by the President
Response to AAUP comment about the appointment of a UW Provost with no search Before appointing a search committee, I asked for advice as to whether to proceed with such a search at the Senate Executive Committee (Professor Wood was present at that meeting). I further asked that if anyone had con[...]
February 25th, 2016 - 11:25 am § in Misc.
UW Food Fight
So, at long last, our AAUP listserv has been abused to post public shaming dossiers on individual faculty members, complete with insinuations about their politics and characters and paranoid speculations about hidden agendas. Dr. Kaiyala’s contemptible post transports us back to a dark peri[...]
The Fight to Save a Brutalist Building on the UW Campus
AAUP LISTSERV: Don Abramson To become *more* informed about the Nuclear Reactor Building, I encourage anyone who cares enough to follow this thread to peruse the “Statement of Significance” for the NRB in the National Register of Historic Places documentation itself. It’s on page 9[...]
The Hypocrisy of the AAUP Listserv
Tomorrow they will be gone! Academics read. Most citizens associate academics with free expression, reading and discussing what has been written by colleagues from a day ago or even a year ago. Many citizens also worry that speech on campus is censored, not by the right but by the left. [...]