Tuesday, September 15, 2020

COVID and the University from the American Association of University Professors



What’s New with Academe?
This month’s newsletter offers a preview of selected articles from our forthcoming fall issue on the COVID-19 crisis in higher education. Follow the links below or visit https://www.aaup.org/academe to read a new series of reflections on faculty life during the pandemic and other highlights from Academe and the Academe Blog.
Links to the articles follow below.

PANDEMIC REFLECTIONS
By Jesse Stommel
How can we be together online?

By an adjunct faculty member in the Northeast
Will COVID-19 finally bring down a system that pairs the most overworked and least supported faculty members with the neediest students?

By Matthew Boedy
How the Georgia AAUP conference fought for a mask mandate—and won.
Reflections from the Battle Lines
By Teena Chopra
Medical faculty members are fighting to keep our communities safe.

Black Women, Mutual Aid, and Union Organizing in the Time of COVID-19
By Donna Murch
The pandemic has lent new urgency to demands for a just future.

By Michele Hardesty
How the Hampshire College AAUP chapter built solidarity and avoided faculty layoffs.

By a lecturer in Florida
Students have a right to be disappointed in our institutions.

FEATURES
The Necroliberal University
By Benjamin Balthaser and Bill V. Mullen
COVID-19, racial violence, and the management of death.
Liberal Education after the Pandemic
By James Buckwalter-Arias
A health emergency demands a new perspective on higher education.

BOOK REVIEW
A Worthy Primer on Free Speech
Henry Reichman reviews Suzanne Nossel's Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All.

CHAPTER PROFILE

COLUMN

FROM THE ARCHIVES
Eight Actions to Reduce Racism in College Classrooms
By Shaun R. Harper and Charles H. F. Davis III
When professors are part of the problem.

FROM THE BLOG
Scholar Strike
By Anthea Butler and Kevin Gannon
Library Collections and Coronavirus Capitalism
By David Eifler and Margaret Phillips

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