Ian Houlihan, we'll call him "Hotlips," just for fun, is a tenured faculty member at a Catholic University in the Northeast. In the February 23rd edition of…
Cary Nelson
by P.D. Lesko Friends, folks, fellow education workers, Romans, countryman, there's Trouble in Idaho. I say there's Trouble. That's Trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes…
By Stanley Fish Last week, as I was preparing a presentation for still another conference on the fate of the liberal arts in our time, two…
Here's the question: Do full-time faculty members help students finish college? Kevin Carey, a Washington, DC think tank director, posed this question on the Chronicle's Brainstorm blog.…
By now, mainstream media outlets have published hundreds, if not thousands of pieces about the plight of part-time faculty. On March 31st, The Nation joined the fray…
Out West where the buffalo roam, the antelope play and the Humvees hum down Highway 101, there's a slaughter going on. Had anyone bothered to ask me,…
[private]I read the AAUP's magazine, Academe, faithfully. I had a very cordial relationship with Dr. Mary Burgan, the long-time General Secretary of AAUP. Mary and I had…
Waiting, as you might imagine, is not my strong suit. I can line up, stay on hold, and suffer through all of the other situations in which…
