OBAMA and DUNCAN: TEACHERS MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE Arnie Duncan, Sec. of Education, sees the solution to the decay if our secondary school system as requiring a free market .. odd for a liberal, perhaps courageous for a democrat, and very irritating to the teachers’ unions. Obviously Obama is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘AAUP’
July 29th, 2010 - 9:00 am § in Misc.
A Lesson from Obama: Teachers’ Unions and Administrators vs Faculty Elitism
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 [...]
The Aprikyan Case
Have you read Dr. David Dale’s frightening account of what happened to our colleague, Andrew Aprikyan? Your own career could be next. Andrew Aprikyan was charged with scientific fraud by an anonymous accuser who himself had a conflict of interest over the intellectual property in question. B[...]
July 5th, 2010 - 10:00 am § in Misc.
The Aprikyan Case
Happenings at the UW: The UW Provost Phyllis Wise dismissed Dr. Andrew Aprikyan from the faculty of the School of Medicine after a seven year long investigation. This action was taken despite the findings of a formal faculty adjudication panel that Dr. Aprikyan was not guilty but that the Admini[...]
July 1st, 2010 - 10:10 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Israel: Academics Vote Shares to Limit Exec Pay! Is TIAA Listening?
…..The representatives of Hamachar (“the provident fund of the union of academics in the social sciences and humanities” ) is voting against high salaries at shareholders assemblies. Specifically, Hamachar’s representatives are refusing to approve any executive salary that is[...]
A modest proposal
I advocate, more or less, a "high tuition, high financial aid" model for the UW.[...]
June 17th, 2010 - 9:13 am § in Misc.
The UW Senate Needs Open Discussion of the Next President
The UW Faculty Senate sent out a poll to find out what soret of President the Faculty wants. After the questions , I have a difficult time believing that answers to so many open-ended questions and vaguely defined terms can do more than provide a feeling about what the minority who do respond actua[...]
June 14th, 2010 - 10:42 pm § in Misc.
AAUP ASC election
For those AAUP members who have discovered The Ave and are wondering who to vote for in the ASC (Assembly of State Conferences) election, let me suggest that you check out the campaign literature by Donna Potts. Her statement (and those of the other candidates) are available at: http://www.aaup.org[...]
June 10th, 2010 - 8:50 am § in Misc.
U-Union-W?
After years of frustration, the AAUP leadership has decided to begin the effort to found a UW union.[...]
June 8th, 2010 - 9:05 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Can the Public Schools Teach the UW a Lesson?
Is the UW headed toward the status of a public school district? Lessons from Chicago and Michigan.[...]