New twist on Florida HB 837
A report by the Gainesville Sun on yesterday’s Florida house committee meeting on our local version of the so-called Academic Bill of Rights made clear one additional twist: according to the report, the bill would go further than just requiring grievance processes but would give students legal standing to sue professors over what they say […]
The value of the blogosphere
Jonathan Dresner is wrong when implying that a key value of the blogosphere is in its quick turnover of factual criticism that leads to clarification and new evidence. In this case, he was using the fuzzy (some said apocryphal) story David Horowitz was touting about a University of Northern Colorado student forced to write that […]
Move over, Ward Churchill
After reading portions of Churchill’s interview comments at CNN, I have one reaction: move over, poster boy, and let us professionals do the heavy lifting to defend academe. An example: Look, man, I riveted the entire nation on—what did I rivet the entire nation’s attention on? It’s just boilerplate now … there’s no analysis of […]
Surprises from Cambridge to California
In a few days, the University of Colorado at Boulder lawyers stop negotiating a buy-out with Ward Churchill’s lawyer, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education blog goes a bit overboard in making factual claims about the Foothills College imbroglio over a student’s paper, there’s a big online todo about whether David Horowitz has been […]
Blind reviews for search committees?
By Sherman Dorn on March 21, 2005
In a fascinating story about Stanley Fish’s successor as Arts and Sciences dean at UIC is a little nugget: the chemistry department is trying the first stage of search committee portfolio reviews blindly, after a staff member strips identifying information about names and institutions from the submitted material. I’m curious; what do you think?
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