‘WT…” AAUP and other tidbits
I’m simply befuddled with the delayed conference that the AAUP first sponsored and has now put on hiatus, about academic boycotts. I’m simply too tired right now to attempt untangling the different threads, so I’ll ask you just to read the article and the responses on IHE. What’s especially sad are the comments by Joan […]
Bruised Bruins and egos
UCLA law professor Jerry Kang has a concise legal analysis of the imbroglio surrounding the “Bruin Alumni Association” blacklisting scheme. Greg James Robinson, who pointed out Kang’s observations, is concerned about the chilling effects on campus as a consequence of such snitching efforts. We have some time and space to consider the issues in abstract […]
The Clintonization of Bush
The State of the Union speech this year demonstrated the downsizing of Bush’s political capital. It had a bunch of platitudes about Iraq and the war on terrorism and a bunch of small-program stuff, things that would never have received play in prior years when Bush was feeling his oats. But his oats have become […]
A preposition! My kingdom of a preposition!
Well, I’ve been misquoted in the press again, if mildly. Ed Week reporter Debra Viadero wrote a generally nice article about Rob Warren’s EPAA article comparing different graduation measures, and she quoted from an e-mail I had sent her after a misdirected missive (that came to me though intended for someone else). I had written […]
And on the right side of publishing competence …
By Sherman Dorn on February 4, 2006
Our edited book Schools as Imagined Communities is out! I’m so happy. This is one of the two edited collections I’ve been working on for the last few years. The other one is still in press, but the imagined communities book has been a labor of love, especially since it involves other people’s labor. Go […]
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