from the UW AAUP listserv, a post by Raya Fidel I’m not familiar with the ASA’s procedures and their deliberations about the boycott statement. But I think it is important to understand that Israel is not a small, poor, week, and persecuted country. Or a country where “indivi[...]
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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[...]
December 5th, 2013 - 10:44 am § in The Ave Scene
WHO OWNS THE UW LOGO?
THE Ave Has Been Asked to Change Its Logo In response to a post on the UW AAUP listserv The UW is non profit but its components certainly can bring in more than their costs. Consider the sales under the UW logo. Who makes money off of that? Who actually owns the logo … the […][...]
May 14th, 2013 - 9:48 am § in Misc.
Is the UW Exempt from Miranda Rights?
Even Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was read his Miranda rights … not so Andrew Aprikyan. This UW faculty member was tried and convicted of criminal activities without even being told of his rights. The President of the University, a man selected for his job based on qualifications to manage the a[...]
February 6th, 2012 - 10:29 am § in Misc.
Who Owns the Copyright on Federal Research?
A colleague wrote to me today at the AAUP in response to a post I had made about taking the rights t9 copyright federal researech away from publishers. Steve, Last spring, I sent off a paper to the Journal of Geophysical Research, a non profit owned by the American Geophysical Union. To do a non[...]
November 21st, 2011 - 11:46 pm § in Schools & Colleges
UW Bothell Prof Predicts Privitization of Universities
” “from each according to his or her abilities, to each according to his or her needs” is not a bad motto for public higher education.” “ (from AAUP Magazine, Academe) By Bruce Burgett (redacted and edited) In spring 2010, a group of University of Washington administrators [...]
BREAKING NEWS: UW violates basic principles of law.
A good deal of the reason for The AVE has been my concern about administrative abuse of faculty rights. As one example, The AVE has provided extensive coverage of the Aprikyan affair. Now we will likely never find out whether Andrew Aprikyan ever did anything wrong. Instead a team of lawyers, h[...]
October 12th, 2011 - 10:31 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
UW AAUP Censors a post about the NIH.
A few days ago I posted a very important issue .. the 50% decline in funding rates at he NIH since the early 2000’s. I discussed why this should be of concern to all of us interested in the University School of Medicine. I also suggested that our federal representatives need to be educated a[...]
October 1st, 2011 - 7:02 am § in America
Teaching at a Colored University
from the AAUP listserv at UW. 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, […][...]
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[...]