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 […]
Dissing Fish
It’s time to come out of the closet, I suppose: I’ve just finished redrafting a book proposal on academic freedom after 9/11, which was going to focus a few years ago on the Sami Al-Arian case here at USF. But publishers made clear they were not going to be interested in a book just on […]
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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