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Fish ferociously flubs
Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the ground after reading Stanley Fish’s latest piece, wherein he argues that because some substantive academic arguments are heated, we should see through the University of Colorado faculty committee’s misreading of a typical scholarly debate as research misconduct. One can make a number of plausible arguments […]
Easy prediction, the bad kind
When a university lays off a large proportion of its faculty (including those with tenure) when (a) the university has not declared financial exigency, (b) faculty representatives gave the administration options to address the financial problems without laying anyone off, and (c) faculty were not involved in deciding who would be laid off, it doesn’t […]
Stupid leadership at…
Michigan State University Yeshiva University My deepest sympathies to the faculty and students at both places. May the skies open up and give you something more than Schadenfreude.
The buttons we bear… or the crosses, or other things
In the last week I’ve been criticized by both Stanley Fish and Andy Rotherham, so I must be doing something halfway interesting. As Leo Casey notes, the legal problem in banning any and all campaign buttons from the classroom is the question of other forms of passive advertisement of individual commitments. How can one construe […]
Oh, good grief!
Apart from a few blog entries, I’ve been staying out of the fray on Ayers. I didn’t sign the online petition because at the time it went up, it didn’t appear as if Ayers’ academic freedom was being directly threatened. In this regard, I agree with Erin O’Connor, that public criticism is not the same […]