By Barbara Fister. PEN America recently published a substantial report on freedom of speech on campus (covered here). This seems a natural subject for the organization to address, given its mission. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
24 octobre 2016
What’s Up, WikiLeaks? And Other Data Dilemmas
By Barbara Fister. What’s going on with WikiLeaks? A site that originally set out to provide documents of political corruption and reveal war crimes to augment news reports and hold governments accountable has been on a tear of foolishness lately. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
Data Breaches, Betrayals, and Broken Promises
By Barbara Fister. Poor old Yahoo. Three weeks ago, we found out that, oopsie, 500 million of their users had their data hacked, the biggest breach of a single company (that we know of – yet). Read more...
24 octobre 2016
This Rant is for Social Scientists
By Barbara Fister. Cognitive dissonance made me do it. If you want social justice, why do you let your research be locked up for profit. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
What This Election Taught Us
By Tracy Mitrano. Because I am still registered to vote in Yates County, New York, but work in Massachusetts, I voted last week when I went home to the Finger Lakes. I couldn’t fill out that ballot fast enough. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
Authenticity and Authorship, Part II
By Tracy Mitrano. To even speak its name, I know, opens the potential to a Pandora’s box of comments about its very definition, interpretation and schools. Have at it if you want, but to do so is not my intent. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
What’s in a Name?
By Tracy Mitrano. In 1967, William Styron won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for his novel The Confessions of Nat Turner, based on the real life slave rebellion in 1831. He later wrote the haunting fictional story Sophie’s Choice that echoed real life survivors’ personal horror of the Holocaust. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
AT&T and Dyn Attack
By Tracy Mitrano. Two main headlines confronted us this week. The AT&T proposed purchase of Time Warner and the Dyn cyberattack. Question: What do these two events have in common? Answer: how commerce operates in the “free market,” and how those operations affect the public. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
If You're Wondering Why NTT Faculty Don't Support Tenure
By John Warner. Administrators and non-tenure-track faculty have at least one thing in common: Both groups appear comfortable with the elimination of tenure. Read more...
24 octobre 2016
Time to Retire, "It's Supply and Demand."
By John Warner. One of my favorite – and by favorite, I mean most irritating – responses people weighing in on the treatment of contingent academic labor offer is some version of “There’s nothing we can do, it’s supply and demand.” Read more...
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