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ACTA’n up
It took four days for ACTA’s blog to respond to the Center for Responsive Politics’ report on political giving within higher education. And, true to form, the entry attempted to link contributions to classrooms: Intellectual diversity is not, of course, reducible to party affiliation, and the professoriate’s campaign contributions do not themselves tell us what happens […]
Political involvement, proxies of
A new report on political giving by higher-education employees is sure to provoke more fallacious arguments about politics and academe. Some things to keep in mind: The report includes data on all higher-ed employees, and is about all giving. Without more information (which the Center on Responsive Politics wouldn’t have), we don’t know how much of […]
Ward, not redux
So Colorado’s Regents have fired Ward Churchill. I’ve written about this at other times, but let me summarize things briefly: The beginning of the investigation was political. There were legitimate challenges to Churchill’s research record, some identified before and some sent to Colorado after the political furor began. The charges tied to Churchill’s speech rights were […]
Salute to Chris Perez
A Fishy View of Education neatly skewers the flawed reasoning of Stanley Fish, for Fish believes in a very narrow view of free speech and academic freedom. Bravo.
Wrong questions on Ward Churchill
Yesterday, Aaron Barlow asked the political questions about l’affaire Churchill at Free Exchange on Campus. To Barlow, the central issue is the public perception of higher education. In responding to “those on all sides who try to make Churchill and his presumed guilt or innocence an emblem for their greater argument about academia,” So he […]