Is the ABOR language a fig leaf?
I’ve written before that Florida’s House Bill 837 (our version of the David Horowitz ABOR) does not write into law any insulation of the curriculum from legislative meddling (such as the attempt to foist a chiropractic school onto Florida State last year). This Tuesday, the first committee hearing the bill recommended it on a party-line […]
Ward Churchill news
Thanks to Ralph Luker for pointing out that the University of Colorado has released its preliminary report on the accusations against Churchill. The university decided to forward some of the allegations to the standing faculty committee on research misconduct but not to act on three matters: His writings about the 9/11 terrorist attacks One misconduct […]
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 […]
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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