A Texas A&M professor made waves by announcing he intends to flunk his entire class. “I hope he still left time at the end for everyone to fill out course evaluations.” — Daniel Doty, Summer Counselor[...]
Posts Tagged ‘academic freedom’
April 2nd, 2015 - 4:49 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
Free Speech at the UW: A UW Professor Speaks out AGAINST FREE SPEECH
“I was appalled to learn that the UW-Chapter of the AAUP is sponsoring the visit of Steven Salaita to campus.” TALK: Monday, April 6, 2015 6:00 – 8:30pm Gowen 301 UW Seattle Campus MAP Free and open to the public Michael Rosenthal , Professor, Department of Philosophy Dear Prof[...]
February 24th, 2015 - 8:41 pm § in Schools & Colleges
U. of North Carolina’s board closes their law school’s poverty center
Apparently poverty is spreading faster in the right-to-work state of North Carolina than the Republicans who dominate the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors want anyone talking about. They’ve voted to put their own law school’s poverty center out of business. What wi[...]
Political Control of Universities … Iran vs South Carolina
Iran’s Censors Academic Freedom in Universities Reza Faraji-Dana, the former Minister of Science, during his tenure as president of the University of Tehran in 2005. Reuters On Tuesday, Iran’s parliament rejected the fourth person that President Hassan Rouhani has nominated to lead the[...]
September 9th, 2014 - 4:18 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
A Fruitless Attack on Salaita’s Academic Work
According to a report in Tablet, a liberal Jewish website, Steven Salaita’s appointment at University of Illinois was to a job in Illinois’ American Indian Studies Department. However, the author Liel Leibovitz was unable to find any evidence that Salaita had published an[...]
May 3rd, 2014 - 11:34 am § in Misc.
Rutgers’ Commencement Speaker, Condi Rice, Shamed by Protests, Backs Out
Condoleezza Rice backs out of Rutgers commencementNEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) – Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has backed out of delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University following protests by some faculty and students over her role in the Iraq War. Rice said in a stat[...]
Does the University of Hawaii Practice Free Speech”
Is Regulated Free Speech Free? At the UW, faculty have complained that the AAUP has restricted the use of its listserv to speak out on the issue of boycotting Israel as an occupying country. While I oppose the boycott, I am even more disturbed by the lack of a free discussion. Two examples from t[...]
April 2nd, 2014 - 1:11 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Kochs Give $$ to Higher Education
Analysis Tracks Koch Brothers’ Financial Support for Higher Education A new analysis from the Center for Public Integrity details how charitable foundations controlled by the brothers Charles and David Koch have poured money into colleges and universities. The center’s ana[...]
Of May Day and UW Logos
Today is May Day …. the day radicals on the left celebrate as their version of labor day. The day UW students will proudly fly banners with the UW logo, while faculty fear punishment if they even identify with the UW. May Day, I have read, memorializes the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, 1886, [...]