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...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Leonard M. Baynes: Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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  Librado Romero / New York Times   Ruth Bader Ginsburg touched many of our lives.  For some the connection was personal, for others as a co...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

COVID and the University from the American Association of University Professors

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What’s New with   Academe ? This month’s newsletter offers a preview of selected articles from our forthcoming fall issue on the CO...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

Measures for the Appointment and Management of Foreign Teachers (Draft for Solicitation of Comments) [外籍教师聘任和管理办法（征求意见稿）]

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Pix Credit: Precarious times for foreign teachers in China . The Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China has dist...
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 ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Thoughts on Giorgio Agamben - Requiem per gli studenti (A Requiem for Students) and the Birth of the Hollowed Out Simulated University

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Therefore the Lord , the God of hosts, the Lord , saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highway...
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...
Monday, June 1, 2020

The Elite University Administrator-Priest and Orthodox American Civic Religion: David Westbrook, "The Church of Harvard A Reading of President Bacow’s “What I Believe”"

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From the end of the 19th century the American political vanguard (civilized Americans at the top of whatever then passed for hierar...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

The Price of Complicity: From the AAUP--The State of the Profession Now Better Exposed

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Gianni Pisani, Il guardiano della casa (1980) (Naples) The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has  distributed its 2...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Announcing Publcation of the AAUP Journal Academe 106(2) (Spring 2020) "In Defense of Knowledge and Higher Education"

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The spring 2020 issue of   Academe , inspired by the AAUP’s statement   In Defense of Knowledge and Higher Education , examines the comp...