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Lack of perspective at the American Historical Association
Yesterday was eventful at the third day of the American Historical Association annual meeting in Atlanta but not in a good way. Police arrested Tufts faculty member Felipe Fernandez-Armesto for jaywalking and put him in jail until the prosecutors dropped charges, embarrassed. The AHA business meeting failed to approve a strongly-worded measure opposing campus speech […]
Proselytizing teachers
Tina Kelley’s New York Times story about David Paszkiewicz’s proselytizing in a high school class has raised a number of questions about the First Amendment and whether a teacher’s academic freedom should trump parental concerns that their children not be subject to inappropriate pressures outside the curriculum. Let me cut to the chase: what Paszkiewicz did (which […]
Want a higher-ed union job?
The United Faculty of Florida‘s wonderful executive director, Steve Weinberger, is leaving Florida and his job, and we need a replacement. Want a challenge? Fill his shoes!
Why I’m not a member of the American Historical Association and speech codes
Since October 7th’s Cliopatria blog entry by Ralph Luker about the anti-speech-code resolution he and David Beito are sponsoring for January 2007 meeting of the American Historical Association, I’ve been wondering how to respond. It wasn’t about the resolution itself (about which I’ll talk later) but the fact that I haven’t been an AHA member […]
Have New Yorkers forgotten their manners?
What is it with academic-freedom news from the Big Apple recently, from the interruption of a speech by a Minuteman founder at Columbia to the cancellation of a speech by Tony Judt at the Polish Consulate? Is there something in the water? I can talk about this because my father was from Brooklyn (Flatbush, in fact) […]