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Why unions need competent administrators on the other side
Dean Dad neatly explains why Southwestern College’s leaders aren’t even competent Machiavellian administrators. While I’ve occasionally heard from people that the best union recruiting tool is a horrid manager, life is more complicated. Yes, there are threshold effects of managerial incompetence and cruelty on organizing campaigns, but for an already-recognized union with plenty of duties, […]
St. Louis University
I am certainly not the first one to point this out, but St. Louis University has shot itself in the foot by apparently attempting to cancel a David Horowitz speech. Its only (non-saving) grace is that it explicitly has a “we get to decide if your desired speaker says what we want” policy. Too bad […]
John Yoo and academic freedom
On the Balkanization blog, Deborah Pearlstein copies a memo from Berkeley (Boalt Hall) Law School dean Christopher Edley regarding John Yoo, the tenured faculty member at Boalt who wrote the torture-justification memos for the Bush administration. In it, Edley makes clear his disdain for Yoo’s reasoning and then argues that those who would want Yoo […]
Ward Churchill, part omega?
Yesterday’s decision not to give Ward Churchill his job back (Denver Post, Inside Higher Ed, New York Times) suggests that we’re probably close to the end of the Churchill legal saga. His lawyer will appeal, but my gut sense is that while the immunity question is a matter of some interest, the question of whether […]
Conversation often works … where it’s tried
Today, ACTA‘s Anne Neal thanked the AAUP and AACU for welcoming her outreach efforts.Towards the end of the blog entry, she writes, ACTA also shares many faculty members’ legitimate concern about administrative bloat and about trustees who lack a sensitive understanding of the special protocols and values that underwrite the unique enterprise of higher education. […]