AUT boycott of Israeli universities overturned
Here are reports from the BBC, Jerusalem Post, the Guardian, the Observer, Haaretz, and the official AUT page. (Thanks to Sharon Howard for the first blog entry I read on this.) Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Dis-positioning the institution
Today, Brooklyn College historian KC Johnson dissed colleges of education for collecting evidence of student dispositions, claiming that the response to NCATE’s push for evidence about dispositions is part of the leftward tilt of campuses. Hmmm… While there certainly are examples of silly institutions trying to cram ideologies down the necks of students, such as […]
Al-Arian and symbolism
Why did some faculty and many Tampa residents want USF to fire Al-Arian long before his indictment on charges that he helped finance the Palestinian Islamic Jihad? … After disposing of the claims that USF could have fought terrorism by firing Al-Arian or that it was obliged by its publicly-funded status to fire Al-Arian, we are left with the argument that a university has a moral obligation to maintain clean hands in its hiring practices and to be willing to fire faculty …
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 […]
My hat is off to those who work at home…
By Sherman Dorn on May 26, 2005
One of the joys of academic life is the freedom to schedule one’s life, such as the time I spent this morning at my children’s schools, shuttling between the party in my son’s fourth-grade class and the end-of-year celebration at my daughter’s middle school. So they’re home this afternoon, releasing some energy by playing together […]
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