Showing posts with label shared governance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shared governance. Show all posts
Thursday, August 12, 2021

The COVID Wars Continue at Penn State--A Tale of Two Senate Resolutions. . . and the Administration's Counternarrative

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    I have been following the sadly patched up disaster that has been the lurching progress toward what passes for policy at Penn State rela...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Pandemic and the University: "An Open Letter from Penn State faculty to the Penn State Administration and the Board of Trustees "

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Pix Credit HERE    The COVID-19 Pandemic has brought out the best and worst among key institutional stakeholders.  It has accelerated trends...
Thursday, April 1, 2021

The Transformation of University Governance and the Triumph of a Peculiar Ideology of Fiscalization in the American University

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    The American Association of University Professor (AAUP) has just announced publication of a set of quite interesting article in the Spri...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

The Transfiguration of University Faculty Senates in the Shadow of Pandemic

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    Pix: Catacomb of Saints Marcellinus and Peter on the Via Labicana . University Faculty Senates in the United States continue to struggle...
Friday, July 3, 2020

Diversity in Silence: A Look Back To Diversity Reform Now Forgotten at Penn State University

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I have not commented on the recent, and potentially quite profoundly transformative, movements to center diversity generally, and the ...
Friday, June 12, 2020

Shifting the Employment Paradigm in the Shadow of COVID-19: "Open Letter to the Penn State Administration Regarding Plans for the Fall and the Response to COVID-19"

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Pix© Larry Catá Backer, Flop, Needlepoint Pillow, Kuntshaus Zurich, displayed at the Museum of the Ohio State University Columbus L...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

The Abusive University Administrator--Unfettered Discretion in the University and What the "Census Case" May Teach Us About Abuse

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(Pix source HERE ) Those of you who follow my academic blog, Law at the End of the Day, have seen recent posting of PowerPoints t...
Monday, May 6, 2019

A Report From the Front Lines of the Transformation of the American University: Jacob Howland, "Storm Clouds Over Tulsa"

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In April 2019, Jacob Howland, wrote a blistering analysis of the great institutional transformations that are occurring at the Universi...
Sunday, April 7, 2019

On the Battlefield of Shared Governance--Maricopa Community College and the Shift from Ideas to Faction in Shared Governance

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019) Shared governance appears to have acquired a political patina.  And that is unfortunate--especially si...
Saturday, December 1, 2018

The AAUP Will Now Investigate the Mass Terminations at Vermont Law School

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( Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) Some time ago I wrote about the implications of the mass terminations at Vermont Law School ( Thoughts ...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

From the AUP: Academic Freedom and Tenure: St. Edward’s University (Texas)

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Even as the nature of university education change, and its forms and functions along with it, there is sometimes some reassurance fro...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Thoughts on Mass Tenure Revocation at Vermont Law School in the Shadow of the Market and Beyond Shared Governance

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( Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) The decision by the Vermont Law School to terminate the tenured positions of more than half of its facu...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Scandal, Culture Change, and Discipline at USC: The Emerging Roles of Bureaucracies, Faculty, and Litigation in Institutional Risk-Compliance Regimes

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Universities, like other large institutions, have been plagued by scandal related to sexual misconduct.  Among the latest institutions...
Friday, May 4, 2018

In the Spirit of Folly --A Primer for University Faculty Assessment

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Academic faculty review-assessment season is once again upon us. This is the time of year when all of the pious recitations about share...
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