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Showing posts with label tenure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tenure. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

High court construes tenure contract to constrain faculty salary cuts at Tufts medical school

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TUSM Arnold Wing, 2012, Boston John Phelan via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 Academic freedom won a rare court victory last week when the Mas...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

War protests expose double standards in higher ed

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Ted Eytan CC BY-SA 4.0 I've refrained from commenting on the Israel-Hamas war, specifically and especially on the eruption of conflict,...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Arkansas profs champion academic freedom as bipartisan cause

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Most recently in June, I wrote about the faculty lawsuit against the University of Arkansas System to protect academic freedom, as the univ...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

UMass Dartmouth appoints 6 to 'Chancellor Professor,' first awarded high academic rank since 2003

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The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has appointed six faculty to the rank of " Chancellor Professor ," effective today.  I...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Arkansas higher ed faculty sue to protect tenure, academic freedom

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An assault on academic freedom in Arkansas has drawn a lawsuit by faculty. In fall 2017, I republished concerns by my colleagues in the ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Political correctness continues to threaten academic freedom. But if it's a martyr you want, don't look at me.

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When my daughter was a high school senior, she and my wife visited Sarah Lawrence College in New York.  My wife and I are keen on liberal-ar...
Monday, October 22, 2018

Does your dean work for you?

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[This opinion is mine, reprinted from the Faculty Federation News: A Publication of the UMass Dartmouth Faculty Federation AFT-MA 1895 , vo...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Why do law profs lose their employment suits? Because most plaintiffs lose

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An article about litigious law profs in the Albany Law Review by Nova Southeastern Law Professor Robert Jarvis is getting a lot of play in...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Janus-faced about 'Janus': Supreme Court hears major First Amendment labor case, and 'it's complicated'

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The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument in Janus v. AFSCME ( SCOTUSblog ) on Monday, February 26.   The problem in a nutshell is the...