There’s something happening here… “I plan to be at the meeting tomorrow, one of the very few Academic Senate meetings I will have attended in my 17+ years as a faculty member here. I am not proud of not attending Senate meetings. I have good reasons why I often could not: they tend (like t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘academic freedom’
November 21st, 2011 - 6:42 pm § in The Ave Scene, UW
Ana Mari Cauce .. new UW Provost
Ana Mari Cauce is. among more important things, the author of the title of this site .. “The AVE” was her idea. I remember Ana Mari suggesting that we use a name that combines the idea of a physical place, “The Ave,” with the idea of a venue for public discussion! That sp[...]
October 30th, 2011 - 11:51 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Aprikyan Case
UPDATE: Andrew Aprikyan’s fight with the UW will continue. As we have reported extensively on The AVE, Andrew has repeatedly asserted that he is innocent. He states that “is work has been corroborated by investigators elsewhere ans arose because of a disgruntled collaborator here ta[...]
October 24th, 2011 - 8:21 am § in Schools & Colleges
Yale Gets Award for Punishing Repugnant Frat Boys
MUZZIE AWARD TO YALE (Boston Phoenix) Wesleyan was not alone in clamping down on fraternities. In a widely reported controversy, Yale effectively disbanded Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) for parodic sexist chants made by pledges during an initiation ritual. Last October, pledges were marched up to the Y[...]
October 12th, 2011 - 2:33 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Can the US supply learning to India?
INDIA: Higher education summit with US reveals gaps Alya Mishra The first India-US higher education summit, between India’s Human Resources Minister Kapil Sibal and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week, was aimed at strengthening collaboration between the two countries. It provide[...]
October 12th, 2011 - 10:31 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
UW AAUP Censors a post about the NIH.
A few days ago I posted a very important issue .. the 50% decline in funding rates at he NIH since the early 2000’s. I discussed why this should be of concern to all of us interested in the University School of Medicine. I also suggested that our federal representatives need to be educated a[...]
September 22nd, 2011 - 3:38 pm § in The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Republican Party Demands Harvard Censor Its Faculty
UPDATE FROM 9/21: Attacking Harvard, and Professors, from Academe. The Massachusetts Republican Party has written to Harvard, demanding that they refuse to pay Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren for teaching one class twice a week this fall on contract law. Nate Little, executive direc[...]
ACADEME: Note to Rick Perry: The US National Academy is Full of Liberals!
Turkish Academy of Sciences to Lose Its Independence The decree, issued on 27th August, which was just after the start of a nine-day holiday in Turkey, says that one-third of the members of the academy will now be appointed by the government and a further one-third by the Council of Higher Education[...]
China: Ai Weiwei tells his tale of two cities, both are Beijing
I am frustrated by the lack of attention by academe to the plight of Ai Weiwei. His courage is shown here by his decision to defy China’s corporate oligarchs by writing while under house arrest. While Ai’s courage is amazing, we should not just blame his fate on China. To a lesser de[...]
August 26th, 2011 - 11:04 am § in Science
BREAKING NEWS: A New Journal!
The HHMI/Wellcome/MPI super journal and the triumph of open access By Michael Eisen from Its Not Junk On Monday the world’s three most prominent private funders of scientific research – the US’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the UK’s Wellcome Trust and Germany’s Max Planck Society – a[...]