Pedro Verdugo “In fact the ball is in Ana Mari’s court. She might be constrained by a powerful Board of Regents, and by a heavy UW bureaucracy. Nevertheless, many of us in the faculty are betting that she might be the President that once and for all resolves these shameful shortcomings of co[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Chapter 28’
December 11th, 2015 - 11:22 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
UW Needs a Stronger Senate Before it Needs an SEIU Union
November 12th, 2015 - 4:29 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
U. of Illinois settles with Steve Salaita
The University of Illinois yanked a job offer to Salaita after he tweeted “incendiary statements about Israel” during its Gaza offensive last year. He sued, and the university settled with him today. Some people thought it was about academic freedom and free speech. To others, it was a [...]
October 24th, 2015 - 9:28 am § in Misc.
The other side: Adjunct Faculty are like sharecroppers
Elizabeth Hanson FACEBOOK Posters done for adjunct faculty recognition week at Shoreline CC and other colleges nationwide…Did you know that 50% of part-time faculty is eligible for public assistance? Did you know that most part-time faculty don’t know from one quarter to the next if th[...]
October 19th, 2015 - 1:54 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
With a Faculty Senate, Why Should the UW Faculty Need a Union?
The anonymity of the email at the left aside , I think the content is accurate and raises the issue of SEIU and how it uses the dues as well as the weakness of the UW’s concept of shared governance. 1. I oppose the SEIU because it is much more than a union of workers, it is a [&hellip[...]
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[...]
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[...]
October 21st, 2014 - 9:45 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Umbundling Tenure
From Inside Higher Education: The fact is that much of the debate, in the United States and elsewhere, about the challenges facing higher education is focused in the wrong direction. Rather than constantly squeezing the professoriate and trying to ensure maximum productivity in narrowly defined area[...]
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, [...]
March 31st, 2014 - 1:18 pm § in Misc.
Why should teachers do research?
If our tax paid purpose is solely to teach, then why should tax money go for research? Why should Universities pay faculty for doing any research? Why should teachers do research? The attack on NSF funding for research goes to the heart of Tea Party commitments to science denial and aversion t[...]
AAUP censors Phyllis Wise
University of Illinois censured for pulling Steven Salaita job over anti-Israel tweets While I find Salaita’s pro Hamas rhetoric offensive, Wise’s actions appear to be based only on her responses to wealthy contributors. Neither she nor the University has offered any other explanation fo[...]