Syllepsis
I’ve now committed syllepsis unintentionally—in my entry yesterday on Ward Churchill, I meant to explain separately that fraud allegations are not all honest and that institutions and colleagues must therefore be careful, but I was sloppy and out came, “Academics can lie about each other and requires some care in investigation.” Does this now put […]
And now, the plagiarism accusation
Thanks to Ralph Luker for pointing out new allegations that Ward Churchill plagiarized work by a Canadian writer; according to the report, when she refused to have her work in one of his edited works appear in a second publication, he wrote something under his name that was remarkably similar. This may be part of […]
No longer funny to me
Via Bitch, Ph.D. came notice of another academic blogger’s cynical universal disclaimer for students in courses. Hmmmnnnn… I guess I don’t feel the need to gripe about students these days. Maybe it’s because there are bigger fish to fry in my professional life, or maybe I just have thick skin, but sarcastic or griping comments […]
The devil’s in the details
So I’ve looked at the “academic bill of rights” introduced in the Florida legislature, and there’s something very curious about it, as I noted earlier: there’s absolutely nothing in it either about the academic freedom of faculty or about the freedom of the institution from legislative meddling, which does appear in the so-called model language […]
And it just keeps coming
Two news stories reminds us all that the attacks on academic freedom and campus speech can come from anywhere. The sloppily-written so-called Academic Bill of Rights (ABOR) has been introduced in the Florida legislature as House Bill 837—something I need to write about, given my views about faculty needing to advocate for universities. For now, […]