Why have we seen a recent crackdown on academic freedom and freedom of speech against academics, whether Stephen Salaita or myself? The answer is that administrators are scared of controversy. It reminds me of World War I, when U.S. entry and the following Red Scare...
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The University of Miami for the win, if by win you mean destroying the planet: One of the world’s rarest forests, a section of Miami-Dade County’s last intact tracts of.
For some of these women, this will probably be the most lucrative work their Ph.D. will ever get them.
The University of Illinois-Chicago faculty have gone on strike in protest of the corporatization of the university that threatens what faculty do--our ability to teach and research, the stability of our jobs, and the defense of the values of the liberal arts education. Like other...
I know Nic Kristof doesn't put in any actual work to write his columns, but this is ridiculous. Erik Voeten with the obvious rejoinder that, in fact, academics are pretty.
The Chronicle discusses a new report: "Labor Intensive or Labor Expensive: Changing Staffing and Compensation Patterns in Higher Education", detailing the rise of professional administrative positions in American higher education..
As I've written about, universities in the UK have offered us a 1% pay increase, which they implemented in December, backdating to August. My union went on strike twice last term, once in October and again once in December. Those representing support / professional services,...
As a historian, I don't really have an opportunity to sell out by using my professional positions to provide expert testimony for Wall Street. But I wonder what that would.
This essay on the current experience at the University of Michigan published on Inside Higher Ed, made the rounds last week. Titled "Corporate Values", it includes several quotes that speak.
The Guardian ran this a couple of days ago, written by an academic who finally grew frustrated enough to pack it in. The takeaway: Universities in the 21st century no longer aspire to become beacons of knowledge, even though they would like to promote themselves...
University of Illinois professor Nicholas Burbules' anti-faculty union arguments are laughable. They are laughable precisely because he ignores the reality of 21st century administration-faculty relationships and what administrations are trying.
In March, I posted "The Commericalization of Academia: A Case Study" to LGM. This past weekend, Rob drew my attention to this review essay by Christopher Newfield published in the Los.