Changing grades
Miriam Burstein shows once again that she is one of the queens of academic blogging in her short, pithy advice to students on the fine art of requesting a higher grade. I don’t agree with everything she says (for I do respond to e-mails asking for clarification, even if I generally stuff the response inside […]
AUT boycott rollback
From one Crooked Timber entry, it looks like the rollback of the AUT Israeli university boycott is possible to likely. The latest ENGAGE blog entry is even more positive. Procedural issues with delegate registration may pose the greatest problem to the rollback. And if you haven’t yet donated to ENGAGE, please do so now!
Foolish private universities
In the fall, DePaul University suspended professor Thomas Klocek without a hearing or a chance to confront accusers for having an argument with students outside class—not his students, either. And Yale University refused to renew assistant professor David Graeber’s contract, and it appears like a possibility that he was fired either for being an anarchist […]
Baxley/Horowitz bill post-mortem
A last few items for the record. : The Florida House now has a video archive of the April 19, 2005, meeting of the House Education Council, where several students as well as United Faculty of Florida President Tom Auxter testified against the bill. (There are other issues covered in that meeting as well, but […]
Miscellanea
How can there be miscellanea in a single topic? Well, if it’s academic freedom and you have the AUT boycott, a book proposal on academic freedom, campus network user agreements, SIU-Carbondale’s situation, and Alan Kors’s slamming of Stanley Fish, …