LIU-Brooklyn Faculty Lockout: Why Americans Don’t Care
by P.D. Lesko From The Atlantic (Monthly) to the Pacific, newspapers, magazines, online education news sites, columnists, bloggers, pundits, activists, unionists, Facebook friends and Tweeps worked the “Je Suis Charlie” angle hard on behalf of the 400 faculty whom the President of Long Island University-Brooklyn (LIU-Brooklyn) locked out for 12 days in response to a contract dispute. The faculty lost their health and dental insurance, to boot, as well as access to school email accounts. For LIU President Kimberly Cline, the lockout was a bad news buffet, in part because most mainstream media education reporters lack a fundamental understanding of […]
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