Faculty tend to avoid demagogues, an avoidance that McCarthy, Hitler, Huey Long, and the Tea Party have shown is very risky. Now Kshama Sawant is running a very well funded campaign for reelection to the Seattle City Council from our neighborhood, District 3. My wife and I voted for Kshama i[...]
Posts Tagged ‘AAUP’
LETS MAKE UW AN ENDOWMENT FUNDED PUBLIC UNIVERSITY
The UW AAUP (below) is advocating “a Fully-Funded, Democratically Run UW.” This seems to me to be a very poorly thought out idea. Here is my alternative. Of course most liberals believe that our state should fully support the costs fo all higher education. Of course we. as a com[...]
Demanding that UW Divest from COAL
COAL We have talked about the movement of universities divesting from fossil fuels on this mailing list a few times. Here is a call for action at UW: Faculty and staff friends of Divest UW, The University of Washington could become the largest university (by enrollment) to commit to divest [...]
May 7th, 2015 - 10:08 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
Housing In Seattle: Should we have mixed income housing?
In a recent (AAUP) post on housing mobility among poor households, I wrote, “”Living next door to a middle class neighbor is going to give someone job skills to be more employable.” I meant to write “… is NOT going to give someone job skills.”!! My apologies f[...]
UW Architecture Prof Blames Corporations For Housing Problem
Responding to a post at the AAUP listserv: Sharon E. Sutton Professor, Department of Architecture was distressed about the NY Times report that claims to show long term poverty may be addressed by people moving to certain cities .. including Seattle. Her key comments were: That this, and other stu[...]
April 30th, 2015 - 11:06 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
AAUP Investigation Condemns Phyllis Wise and UI for Violating Steve Salaita’s Academic Freedom
In a nutshell, the national AAUP has found that there is no evidence that Phyllis Wise made her decision about Salaita based on any valid concern with his scholarship. What basis could there be other than pressure from advocates for Israel? This is not new behavior to those of us w[...]
LSU drafting ‘academic bankruptcy’ plan. Would fire faculty but continue to recruit football players.
“We don’t say that to scare people. Basically, it is how we are going to survive.” LSU President (The Times-Picayune , READMORE ) Moody’s Investors Service announced that it was lowering LSU’s credit rating in response to an 82 percent funding cut if no extra state [...]
April 12th, 2015 - 8:16 am § in Misc.
Searching for UW President
Rod Palmquist Besides past UW problems of: 1) contracted search firms’ secret processes, and 2) a lack of multiple candidates to choose from, what steps can the Regents take to make faculty, staff and students’ input into our next president’s search process both meaningful and more[...]
April 11th, 2015 - 8:45 am § in Misc.
Farrakhan on Israel
CIVILITY IS NOT THE ANTONYM OF DEMAGOGUERY Two weeks ago the UW hosted Steve Salaita. Salaita gave an address proudly hailed as civil. However, if you listen to this talk and then to Salaita, the content is the same.[...]
April 9th, 2015 - 8:34 am § in America
Salaita Calls Me a “Zionist”
This AM I awoke to receive a message that Salaita has been posting an ad hominem attack on Twitter about me. Instead of identifying me by name he uses an epithet ..calling me a “Zionist professor.” He is correct, I am a Jew and a Zionist. I believe Jews AND Palestinians both have [...]