I'm sitting in the Star Alliance lounge in Terminal 1, awaiting the beginning of my LHR-SFO-PDX journey, having been awake since 0400 (to catch the 4.5 hour bus journey from Plymouth* to Heathrow), drinking for free. At least the last part is a good thing....
academia
Or, at least, "tens of thousands" of middle-class ivory tower academics across the United Kingdom. Judging by the comments to this BBC article about the one-day walkout, it's not a.
PTJ has an interesting idea: I did a little digging and thus far have been completely unable to locate something that I would have thought that someone would have already.
This attack on academic freedom -- an adjunct hired to teach a course was fired by Brooklyn College administration after a state assemblyman sent a letter arguing that the syllabus and instructor were too critical of Israel -- is depressing. First of all, there's assemblyman...
Still very much exists. [via]
I was in the audience for the APSA panel that Scott refers to below, although to maintain my anti-establishment cred* I sat in the back, away from the front row.
Reading this post reminded me that I had thoughts, a year or so ago, about the disconnect between how the academic literature breaks down the state and the way that policymakers consistently seem to fail to understand that other states have domestic politics. In particularly,...
This sounds like appeasement. We are pleased to announce the University of Kentucky will provide a one-time, lump sum payment for eligible faculty and staff during the 2010-11 fiscal year..
According to The Guardian, "managers" hired by universities in the UK have increased a modest 33% in the last five years. Academic staff have increased by 10% in that time.
1. Poetic justice. Shorter: states that had tight-fisted approaches to health care in general and medicaid in particular are worried about the burden imposed by the health care reform law. Longer: "But even with more federal help, the challenge for states like Alabama, Arkansas and...
When this blog was launched nearly six long years ago, it was a Seattle-based blog, as all three 'founders' were graduate students in the political science department at the University.
Blogging will be light over the next week while I and many colleagues descend upon the city of New Orleans for the International Studies Association Annual Conference – or, as.