Murdered student
I found out this morning that one of my former students was murdered at USF’s campus late one night this week. Ronald Stem was a student in my masters-level history of education class a few years ago. Fundamentally a nice guy, he was a Vietnam veteran who loved history and was hoping to become a […]
‘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 […]
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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