The Cambridge Empire Strikes Back
…recommendations from university administrators and faculty members. Having represented dozens of students dating back to the Vietnam War, I know the unfairness of the system firsthand—changing this is one of…
…recommendations from university administrators and faculty members. Having represented dozens of students dating back to the Vietnam War, I know the unfairness of the system firsthand—changing this is one of…
…previous handbook, issued in 1994, generally requiring that non-tenured faculty be laid off before the jobs of tenured faculty members be touched. The 1994 handbook also required that that college…
…faculty have become increasingly alarmed and feel a sense of obligation to do something to reverse the direction of UC’s rapidly growing Asian student population; and, clearly, the only way…
…fails to elicit a reaction. So what if, as the Washington Post reports, 80 percent of faculty in America’s English literature, philosophy, and political science departments describe themselves as liberal…
…that serve alcohol, ran to the left of the image. In a flash, student activists and their faculty allies had mobilized in ginned-up outrage to protest this latest alleged example…
…of global competition. While traditionalists and conservatives might wish to apportion blame to the vast Left-wing conspiracy – particularly those increasingly irrelevant faculty whose postmodernism has become a form of…
…ways, alumni, faculty, and many students were outraged. Three years later, courses with titles such as “The Business of Journalism” are commonplace. Arizona State University, for example, is trying to…
…I took in the mid-1980s. I’ve lectured to many an undergraduate class. And I continue to advise Harvard students, and even an occasional faculty member, when they get into trouble…
…After all, if black professors are not 13% of the faculty when black people are 13% of the American population, then you know what that’s all about. I watched the…
…wait and see what the faculty did when it met again the next day to reconsider its Monday vote. Everything now hung on the faculty’s shoulders. Would they uphold the…
…confirm) the faculty seems less-than sympathetic to Kerrey’s approach. This faculty did recently complete a vote of no confidence in Kerrey. The Board of Trustees, however, pledged their full support….
…says, “In March, Virginia Tech’s College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences (CLAHS) concluded voting on new rules for faculty merit raises, promotion, and tenure that would require faculty to…
…the Faculty Senate, I am writing to you today as an individual, and as a concerned member of the New School community, alarmed and saddened by the events of the…
…of doctoral candidates in history drop out and half of college faculty are part-timers. Reducing the size of doctoral programs might thus be seen as a kind of career mercy-killing…
…had been only mildly alert to the hoax-scholarship Churchill was churning out during his nearly three decades on the faculty, it would now not be saddled with the prospect of…
…campus: “Most recently, there have been scurrilous attacks with outright misrepresentation of facts by print media, bloggers and even some of our own faculty and staff against Associate Chancellor Linda…
…faculty members, many of them tenured, after Hurricane Ike devastated its Galveston campus last year and forced the temporary closing of its main teaching hospital. The Texas Faculty Association is…
…California, Irvine. Many of Chemerinsky’s loudest defenders were conservatives and libertarians who don’t much like his politics. One the problems with colleges lecture programs is that faculty and students often…
…other words, referring to the entity as “Israel/Palestine” provides a jumping-off point for delegitimizing Israel as a Jewish state. The conference mostly consists of senior faculty discussing graduate student presentations,…
Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) is attempting to force faculty to take an ideological oath to “diversity.” Promotion and tenure will depend on a willingness to embrace…
…the University of Michigan’s law school from 1970 to 1996 asking which of seven aspects of their education they had most valued at the school, the top two were “faculty…
…book, Horowitz repeatedly argues for faculty and administrators and trustees to intervene and stop this teaching. The question for conservatives, which they seem unwilling to answer, is: do you agree…
…country. In a time of budgetary cutbacks and hiring freezes, some economics departments have even taken on extra faculty to cope with the burden. But explaining economics’ surging popularity wholly…
…fall semester by trimming a peripheral department and putting some of its full-time faculty on part-time status ought to be non-controversial. Not so. Students and phys-ed faculty at Berkeley have…
…and when that doesn’t happen, they don’t quite know what to do.” Levi refused to capitulate or negotiate. Students generally supported the administration. Faculty was split, and on the seventh…
…with our trustees, a handful of faculty and administrative leaders, and a few students. The session was led by J.F. Rischard, the World Bank’s vice president for Europe. As the…
…meeting independently with dissident faculty behind his back. Summers, under pressure from no more than a minority of faculty, felt compelled nevertheless to apologize for his remarks. Without the Board’s…
…one year in business to accomplish takes 3 years in academia. It is a place where excessive consultation can lead to virtual paralysis. Faculty governance interferes with efficiency and some…
…it intends to lay off 60 non-faculty employees, institute salary and hiring freezes, halt faculty searches, and reduce working hours for many staffers (such furloughs are popular ways for administrators…
…much to be a matter of the initiative of the individual faculty member with an interest in Lincoln. – Brooks Simpson, who is probably best-known for his erudite books on…