Here is a statement from a West Virginia Linguistics professor whose entire department has been eliminated. It provides additional context to the Provost's decision to cancel 38 majors and the tenure and untenured faculty lines associated with them.
Here is a statement from a West Virginia Linguistics professor whose entire department has been eliminated. It provides additional context to the Provost's decision to cancel 38 majors and the tenure and untenured faculty lines associated with them.
The same article reports that public universities in Florida are having trouble hiring professors. "During [recruitment] conversations, 'more and more often, we are hearing, "Florida? Not Florida. Not now. Not yet," because they are looking at regulations' like this one, as well as bills passed and proposed by the Florida Legislature."
320 economists from 91 institutions extend support to Prof Das, demand his reinstatement
As many as 320 economists from 91 institutions across the country have extended their support to Prof Sabyasachi Das, whose paper suggesting voter manipulation in the 2019 elections sparked a controversy.
AAUP report on Florida's assault on higher ed is out today. I would add that this continues a trend of vilifying "professors" and framing us as undermining the country. We should probably be concerned for the physical safety of our colleagues in Florida.
Today in Labor History October 16, 1968: Riots broke out in Kingston, Jamaica when the government banned Guyanese university lecturer Dr. Walter Rodney from returning to his teaching position at the University of the West Indies. Rodney, was a socialist, active in the Black power movement, who worked with the poor of Jamaica in an attempt to raise their political and cultural consciousness.
"Physics Professor Richard Easther... said that during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic an explicit part of Wiles' role within the university was as a science communicator.
'The paradoxical outcome [is that Siouxsie] Wiles was employed in part as an expert in science communication, but science communication activities are not seen as part of her role'."
Ashoka University 'Breached Academic Norms', 'Forced Out' Gilles Verniers: Trivedi Centre Board
In an open letter, the Centre's scientific board announced that it was dissolving itself as "the university did not inform the Centre’s scientific board about decisions that affect not only the leadership of the Centre but also its future as an institution".
The University of Edinburgh's so-called Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression Working Group is finally opening up their membership beyond senior leadership, to accept applications from normal people.
Intelligence Bureau at Ashoka University, Wants to Probe ‘Democratic Backsliding’ Paper
IB officials arrived Monday to speak to former faculty member Sabyasachi Das, and unsuccessfully tried to speak to others from the economics department after learning he was not on campus. A second visit was then set for Tuesday.
Texas A&M recruited a UT professor to revive its journalism program, then watered down the offer after ‘DEI hysteria’
The university celebrated its decision to hire Kathleen McElroy to revive its journalism program. She says she’s staying at UT after she felt judged because of her race and gender https://19thnews.org/2023/07/texas-am-kathleen-mcelroy-dei-concerns-journalism/
The abrupt resignation of an economics professor from a prestigious private university has highlighted concerns about academic freedom in India. The country will never be a “vishwaguru” (teacher to the world), as Prime Minister Narendra Modi often boasts, unless the government stops silencing dissenting voices.
What’s unfolding in Ashoka University reflects the ascendancy of a fascistic state. No country can be self-reliant if its universities are effectively destroyed and reduced to coaching centres.
The Decline Of Nehru, Tagore & The Rise Of Savarkar: How Delhi University Got Itself A New Syllabus
Since 2019, Hindu right-wing organizations—both student and teachers’ groups—have successfully propelled syllabi changes in Delhi University’s (DU) English, history and other social sciences and humanities subjects. Some teachers are battling against these changes, many pushed through by a secretive ‘oversight committee’ and new policies. Article14 examines the syllabi changes, the ideological influences driving them, and the processes by which they are being brought in at DU, all pointing to Hindu right-wing control over the leading university in India’s capital.
Ashoka University Departments Unite in Support of Former Professor Amid Academic Freedom Debate
The departments of sociology and anthropology, English, creative writing, political science, philosophy, psychology, and media studies have all voiced their concerns over the university's handling of academic freedom.
Harvard Law Review Editors Vote to Kill Article About Genocide in Gaza
The article on the Gaza war and the Nakba was commissioned, edited, fact checked, and prepared for publication — but was then blocked amid a climate of fear.