from AAUP listserv: Working Towards a Union for the UW faculty by Raya Fidel, Professor, Information School The quality of faculty work life at the UW has deteriorated during the last decade. Throughout the years the Faculty Senate has worked diligently to represent the faculty and it needs[...]
Posts Tagged ‘AAUP’
April 5th, 2011 - 10:29 am § in Uncategorized
We need privacy of conversation .. in text, twit, or talk!
Peter Wood and Peter Lake from the Chronicle Point: The Public Has a Right to Know By Peter Wood The (Republican request for (aculty emails) has been widely interpreted as a political reprisal, and I see no reason to disagree. A week later, a conservative-leaning think tank sent a similar [...]
Could the UW become WGU?
We already have a model that shows us what will happen as we privatize the UW and its sister elite public schools …. That model is the Seattle Public Schools. With the best of intentions, the progressive community has created a school system perceived by our city’s liberal and literate c[...]
April 3rd, 2011 - 10:23 am § in Schools & Colleges
As the UW becomes an Ivy. will WA kids be turned away?
from Katherine Long at the Seattle Times: Why straight-A’s may not get you into UW this year In the face of continuing state budget cuts, academic leaders at the University of Washington in February made a painful decision to cut the number of Washington students the school will admit this fal[...]
March 10th, 2011 - 11:38 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Lyman Bradley … why the courage of a faculty is essential to academic freedom.
In the 50’s, before being targeted by the House Unamerican Affairs Committee, Professor Lyman Bradley was chair of Germanic Studies at NYU and a major scholar in German literature. After losing his job and being sentenced to prison, when Lyman R. Bradley applied for a passport in 1961, [...]
A Response to Politicians in Ohio and Olympia: “We shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.”
Ohio Senate Votes to Deny Collective-Bargaining Rights to Most Public-College Professors This time I may be siding with the enemy. An article in the linked issue of the Chronicle reports that the Ohio State Senate is joining Wisconsin in ruling that faculty do not have collective bargaining rights. [...]
Perhaps the experience of losing a war, and perhaps two more, has left the soul of our people and our leaders wondering about the worth of our most valuable strengths.
Ed. This was originally posted on the AAUP listserv. I have left the authors’ identity confidential because of concerns of responses from administration. Our country seems to be fatally wounded. Perhaps the experience of losing a war, and perhaps two more, has left the soul of our people a[...]
PROTEST ON CAMPUS:Wednesday, March 2, 10:30am by George Washington Statue
from AAUP listserv: USAS (United Students Against Sweatshops) at the University of Washington, formerly known as the Student Labor Action Project (SLAP), would like to invite you and members of the UW American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to join students in a solidarity action wi[...]
February 26th, 2011 - 11:20 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
AAUP: What Should The UW Admin Say About Cuts?
Reposted from AAUP listserv Ed. Duane Storti is a a UW Professor well known to many for his efforts to force the UW administration to follow the faculty code. Ana Mari Cauce, Dean of Arts and Sciences, is well respected as a wise commentator on UW affairs. She is also a member of the President[...]
February 25th, 2011 - 9:17 am § in Schools & Colleges
Who OWNS what UW faculty create?
All faculty need to understand that we DO have a contract and that contract, the Faculty Code, effects a lot more than “just” free speech or due process. The Code effects YOUR rights to work you produce, even if that work is on “your own time.” Stanford University has asked[...]