Kudos to Manuel Gomez
Pointed out today by Minnie Quach (of FIRE) is a fine short description of protected speech on campuses by Manuel Gomez, vice chancellor of student affairs at UC Irvine.
Rigor mortician on dissertation committees
The Panda’s Thumb evolution blog reports an object lesson in dissertation duplicity with an aborted thesis defense of Bryan Leonard’s “intelligent design” curriculum dissertation because, well, there was no evolutionary biologist or science education faculty on the committee! The money quote comes from the comment of Andrea Bottaro who wrote, A graduate student has the […]
Chairs and speech
Kudos to David French of FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) for acknowledging today the gray areas involved in the speech of department chairs, who act both as faculty and as administrators. The immediate occasion is the controversy over Timothy Shortell, recently elected as chair of Brooklyn College’s sociology department…. In reality, the removal of departmental chairs based on their speech is a cover-your-rear maneuver to stem public embarrassment…. In essence, David French and Stanley Fish here are on the same side (which has got to be a first), arguing that one can lose an administrative job from one’s speech.
Educational Reform in Florida
Educational Reform in Florida: Diversity and Equity in Public Policy, a collection of essays edited by Kathy Borman and me, has been accepted for publication by SUNY Press. The collaborative work was supported for several years by the Spencer Foundation, and with sociologists and historians as the authors, it covers a broad range of perspectives […]
Got a postcard!
By Sherman Dorn on June 10, 2005
I received a postcard from profgrrrrl from her trip to Taiwan yesterday and, as promised in the sign-up, I’ve scanned both sides. Here they are:
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