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12 janvier 2020

Harvard Grad Assistants End Strike With No Contract

By Colleen Flaherty. Graduate student assistants at Harvard University ended a 29-day strike last week, without having reached a first union contract agreement with their administration. The student workers, who are affiliated with the United Auto Workers, went on strike in early December after spending more than a year trying to negotiate their first deal. They were seeking what they described as fair pay, comprehensive health care and protections from harassment and discrimination. More...

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12 janvier 2020

Past as Present

By Colleen Flaherty. Should more historians weigh in on current policy debates? Panelists at historians' annual gathering say yes. More...

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12 janvier 2020

Historians Against ICE

By Colleen Flaherty. Members of the American Historical Association approved a resolution condemning college and university contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 70 to 60, at their annual meeting over the weekend. They approved an additional statement in support of professors teaching off the tenure track, but voted down two resolutions expressing concern about academic freedom in Israel. More...

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12 janvier 2020

Political Science Conference Still Planned for Puerto Rico

By Colleen Flaherty. The Southern Political Science Association confirmed that its annual conference will still take place starting today in San Juan, Puerto Rico. That’s despite a major earthquake that hit the island Tuesday and a string of earlier, smaller earthquakes -- not to mention the ongoing reconstruction from 2017’s devastating Hurricane Maria. More...

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12 janvier 2020

Professor Loses Job Over Iran Joke

By Colleen Flaherty. Babson College terminated a staff member and adjunct professor who wrote on Facebook that Iran should respond to President Trump’s recent threat to bomb 52 targets of cultural significance by making an American target list of its own -- including a Kardashian family residence and the Mall of America. Babson previously said it was investigating the matter, but Asheen Phansey, the staff member involved, said Thursday that he’d been fired, according to theBoston Herald. More...

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12 janvier 2020

'In Defense of Knowledge and Higher Education'

By Colleen Flaherty. The American Association of University Professors on Thursday released a statement “In Defense of Knowledge and Higher Education,” saying that “slogans and superstition are no match for the growing complexity and interconnectedness of today’s world.” More...

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12 janvier 2020

More Support for Harvard Ethnic Studies Scholar Denied Tenure

By Colleen Flaherty. More than 200 senior scholars in Latinx and Latin American studies, ethnic studies, women’s and gender studies, and other fields wrote a letter Monday to Harvard University president Lawrence Bacow in support of a professor who was recently denied tenure. More...

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12 janvier 2020

San Juan College Professors Form Union

By Colleen Flaherty. Full- and part-time instructors at San Juan College in New Mexico voted to form a union affiliated with the National Education Association, they announced last week. Eighty-seven of 128 eligible professors voted in support of unionization. More...

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12 janvier 2020

Antigay and Unemployed

By Colleen Flaherty. Professor who sought refuge from liberal academe at a Southern Baptist seminary finds out why tenure matters. More...

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12 janvier 2020

Minnesota Duluth Faculty Senate Balks at Schools' Merger

By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Minnesota at Duluth’s Faculty Senate says it was left out of a plan to merge the School of Fine Arts with the College of Liberal Arts, according to theStarTribune. The move “makes a mockery of our entire system,” the Senate wrote in a letter to administrators criticizing how they’ve handled shared governance during ongoing budget cuts. More...

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