{"id":330,"date":"2005-05-13T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T11:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=330"},"modified":"2005-05-13T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T11:44:10","slug":"miscellanea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Miscellanea"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can there be miscellanea in a single topic? Well, if it’s academic freedom and you have the AUT boycott, a book proposal on academic freedom, campus network user agreements, SIU-Carbondale’s situation, and Alan Kors’s slamming of Stanley Fish, …<\/p>\n

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  1. You can now support ENGAGE<\/a>‘s effort to overturn the AUT boycott of two Israeli universities through PayPal, so you don’t have to be in the UK to help out. (The organizers need help with paying for the blog’s web site as well as printing and mailing costs associated with the effort in the UK to get local associations of AUT to meet and direct their representatives.)\n
  2. I’ve finished the book proposal and the draft of the last chapter for Citizen-Scholar: Defending Academic Freedom and Principles in Today’s America<\/cite>. E-mail me<\/a> if you want to see a copy of the outline and are interested in helping me improve the MS as I work on this over the summer and fall. We’ll see if any publishers are interested in it!\n
  3. While signing up for my campus’s WordPress blog site<\/a>, I noticed that the “user agreement” said that we couldn’t publish anything that was sexist, racist or otherwise “offensive.” Sheesh, I thought speech codes<\/a> went out with several court opinions about 15 years ago. I’ve had a bit of correspondence with the head of academic computing and the general counsel’s office, but if there’s no movement quickly I can easily file a grievance under the faculty union contract. Since I sent a letter before filing a grievance, I want to give the university a chance to respond positively before a grievance.\n
  4. The Illinois Southern<\/a> is reporting that the Southern Illinois University-Carbondale faculty senate will be “monitoring” the situation in the history department after the majority of the department criticized Jonathan Bean’s teaching in a letter to the student newspaper last month.\n
  5. Alan Kors called Stanley Fish the academic hypocrite of the millennium<\/a> on Wednesday. I have my own disagreements with Fish’s reasoning in free speech<\/a>, but I’m wondering if Kors went too far in ad hominem<\/em> remarks.<\/ol>\n

    Off to revise syllabi for the summer and fall and then get ready for the nutty May madness in our life (two birthdays, an anniversary, and end-of-school-year rituals).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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