Grant!
I just got word today that my college’s mini-grant program awarded me a small amount of money for most people but enough for me to spend a few weeks in Atlanta this summer collecting age-grade tables and other data from the Georgia State Archives for the historical educational attainment and attrition study that’s in my […]
AAUP condemns attempted Israeli academic boycott
Yesterday, the American Association of University Professors released a statement condemning the British Association of University Teachers’ boycott of two Israeli universities. See ENGAGE‘s blog for the latest news about the AUT and the boycott. Go, AAUP! My prediction: the AUT council vote will be reversed at the end of the month, but it’ll be […]
Conservative theologian chilled by Horowitz
Anne Marie B. Bahr’s The Right To Tell the Truth is recommended reading in this upcoming Friday’s Chronicle (requires a subscription). My thanks to staff at the United Faculty of Florida for the heads-up on this.
More at SIU
There’s more verbage about Jonathan Bean and Southern Illinois University at Big Muddy IMC, The Southern, the Daily Illini, and Cliopatria (a Ralph Luker entry). As non-tenure-line instructor Michael Davidson points out, we do not have the entire story. I would not be surprised to find out that faculty on both sides of this at […]
Glad my plate is full
By Sherman Dorn on May 4, 2005
I thought I’d come to Chain Bookstore to redeem my free drink as a reward after my fillings and then get some early grading done, but I’m useless on grading thanks to the epinephrine that went with the anesthesia. (For those who are curious, he said that it’s a vasoconstrictor to delay the anesthesia’s dissipation.) […]
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