AUT boycott rollback
From one Crooked Timber entry, it looks like the rollback of the AUT Israeli university boycott is possible to likely. The latest ENGAGE blog entry is even more positive. Procedural issues with delegate registration may pose the greatest problem to the rollback. And if you haven’t yet donated to ENGAGE, please do so now!
Foolish private universities
In the fall, DePaul University suspended professor Thomas Klocek without a hearing or a chance to confront accusers for having an argument with students outside class—not his students, either. And Yale University refused to renew assistant professor David Graeber’s contract, and it appears like a possibility that he was fired either for being an anarchist […]