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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘AAUP’
September 19th, 2011 - 7:25 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
A UW Graduate Writes About Howard, I. Self Segregation
The UW in Comments at the Seattle Times
A colleague on the AAUP Listserve bemoans the criticism he finds in comments on the blog run by the Seattle Times,. I think my colleague is worried about the wrong problem. The Times itself is a relic, a wrecked ship afloat on the remains of Blethen family fortunes. The website is likely better [...]
AAUP: Welcomes President Young with concern about the process used to select him.
As the media have announced that Michael Young is the new President of the UW, the UW AAUP expresses welcome and concern about the process. Dear Colleagues, The Board of Regents still has not announced who will be the new President of UW, but with the Seattle Times running front-page stories on Mich[...]
April 18th, 2011 - 11:31 am § in Misc.
From AAUP LISTSERV ..Uganda Students Have a Lesson for UW
I agree with Halstead Harrison, and appreciate a little leftover infusion of the previous knowledge and energy in the room, so I don’t mind looking at a full board of material that came before me. Here’s a more important question: why aren’t we all in the streets fighting the budge[...]
SEMINAR: Are Cuts to the UW Core Academic Mission Necessary?
Wednesday, April 20, at 3:30 PM in Smith 304 Howard Bunis, Professor of Accounting ***************************************************************************************** Are Cuts to the Core Academic Mission Necessary? Howard Bunsis, Professor of Accounting, Eastern Michigan University, will give[...]
April 13th, 2011 - 12:17 pm § in Uncategorized
Obviously none of the UW faculty is very good ………
Lets All Move to Boston! ……… Harvard University professors are the top-earning teachers in the country, garnering an average annual salary of $193,800, according to a report by American Association of University Professors. The AAUP’s figures mark a stagnation in professorial[...]
April 13th, 2011 - 6:25 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
AAUP Shuts Down Listserv: An Open Letter to the AAUP:UW
Ed. This is an open letter to the AAUP, urging them to move their valuable listserv off campus. My letter reflects a post that is now old news from 2007 and from another university, Cornell in 2007. But the Cornell story illustrates the need for a free and open discussion by our own faculty. W[...]
April 11th, 2011 - 10:03 am § in Uncategorized
A UW Prof: Who SHOULD Be A: UW Student?
UW Admissions and the Budget Cuts from Cliff Mass and UW AAUP listserv After the Seattle Times published a front page article: Why Straight-A Students Won’t Get into the UW this Year there has been a firestorm of comments in the media and blogosphere–and I have gotten quite a few emails [...]
April 10th, 2011 - 2:59 pm § in Schools & Colleges
AAUP: Rising Administrative Costs Endanger College Instructional Resources
AAUP Indiana Applauds Governor’s Call to Halt Excessive Growth in Administrative Expenditures … Hoosier parents and taxpayers are probably wondering where all of the money given to Indiana’s colleges and universities actually goes. They may be disappointed to discover that administ[...]
April 6th, 2011 - 10:43 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Kristoff: on faculty unions.
Nicholas Kristoff, NY Times Teaching is unusual among the professions in that it pays poorly but has strong union protections and lockstep wage increases. It’s a factory model of compensation, and critics are right to fault it. But the bottom line is that we should pay teachers more, not less �[...]