Michigan State University: Student Threatened with Suspension for E-mailing Faculty about University Scheduling This is the story of a student, the Association Director of the student government at Michigan State University. The Provost revealed plans to shorten the school’s academic cal[...]
Search Results
Is the UW Senate Powerless to Act?
The following is part of an email from three UW Senators to their colleagues in the faculty. It sounds to me as if the Senate is taking no action on the abuse of Andrew Aprikyan other than saying the President was wrong. Does the Senate have no authority? Can a UW admin. violate the Code […[...]
January 11th, 2011 - 7:16 pm § in Misc.
Faculty Senate Chair J.W. Harrington: “Someone needs to draw up a draft of something that could be discussed and approved as an interpretation from this body.”
The report of the Senate Executive Committee meeting of the Aprikyan affair appeared in today’s Daily and is copied below. I was not there, but it appears that the highest committee of the faculty has clearly stated that the administration was wrong. The question is what next. Professor Ha[...]
November 22nd, 2010 - 9:13 pm § in Politics
Letter From Regents to AAUP: Misses the Point?
Response to AAUP from Herb Simon, Chair of the Board of Regents. The AAUP had written a letter to the regents expressing concern about the Search and the need to undo damage done by President Emmert to the University’s systems of Governance. (search Aprikyan or search Emmert Coup on this blog)[...]
November 13th, 2010 - 10:22 am § in UW
The administration is systematically violating the Faculty Code.
More on the UW administration’s problems with following the Faculty Code. In this letter, stored in our Library, Attorney David Corbett defends a faculty member from UW Tacoma. The letter, however, is not really about that faculty member. The letter details, in a very orderly way, a series[...]
November 13th, 2010 - 9:10 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
AAUP Writes Letter to Presidential Search Committee, While Only 2 Faculty Show Up to Talk with The Commitee!
Letter to the Search Committee from the AAUP: “Mark Emmert gravely undermined the principles of shared governance.” The University Chapter of the AAUP has written a very worrisome letter to the Presidential Search Committee. The key charge in the letter is that the administration has u[...]
“It is inappropriate for you to have any further activity in any UW laboratory.
“It is inappropriate for you to have any further activity in any UW laboratory.” This phrase is from a letter Andrew Aprikyan just received. Andrew had been seen sitting in on a course offered by the UW’s Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM). These course[...]
November 4th, 2010 - 10:57 am § in Misc.
Western Washington University Claims to be Able to Try Faculty in Closed Session
From the Chronicle of Higher Education via Raya Fidel Below the fold I have copied an article posted on the AAUP listserv by Raya Fidel. The article details a disciplinary hearing of Professor Peter Mills at Bellingham in 2005. The administration at Western Washington University conducted the he[...]
July 26th, 2010 - 11:23 am § in Politics
Entanglement of Church and State.
Kenneth Howell, a lecturer at the University of Illinois was fired for sending email to his class saying that “Homosexual Acts Are Morally Wrong’. The UI Faculty is protesting this but the story gets more complex because it now appears that Howell was chosen for his job AND PAID FOR HIS [...]
July 11th, 2010 - 9:35 am § in Misc.
“Despite Obama’s Words, Scientific Integrity Rules Are Lagging”
Dan Froomkin has a frightening editorial at Huffington Post. The liberal columnist is angry that Obama has not overturned the Bush dera od repression of science. Unfortunately, Froomkin’s answer comes out as Orwellian Newspeak: Integrity = Compliance. Froomkin complains Obama has not creat[...]