A case and a case study of academic freedom
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled in Garcetti v. Ceballos that public employees have less of a right to speak out on issues related to their employment than had generally been considered. Inside Higher Ed discusses the hedging in the opinion on academic freedom. Robert O’Neil has an important point, in his discussion with IHE’s Doug […]
O’Connor and French respond
Erin O’Connor (in her guise as ACTA blogger) and David French have responded to Timothy Burke’s critique of the How Many Ward Churchills? paper essentially by saying, (1) asking the report to quantify is unfair and (2) it doesn’t matter how infrequently professors design a course around a specific ideological bias (which is the claim […]
Boycott
I feel a bit sick after hearing that the leadership of one of the UK’s higher-ed faculty unions voted for a boycott of Israeli academics. See LabourStart’s list of articles about the boycott. There is nothing specific yet about the dynamics in the hall or precisely what will happen when the two UK higher-ed unions […]
Memorial Day and contingency
The uncle I never met, Leo Dorn, was the second child of Philip and Gertrude Dorn, about seven years younger than Murray and seven years older than Al (my father). As an adolescent, he never really got along with my grandfather, and he enlisted in WW2 in part as a way to get away from […]
On the limits of reunions
By Sherman Dorn on May 30, 2006
Since my previous entry on Bryn Mawr’s reunion drew a few responses, I should note that the entry wasn’t about the broader reunion (of which I saw little) but more about folk cultures on residential campuses. I didn’t see who showed up at every event, but I think that those alumnae who came back were […]
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