Faculty Governance in Difficult Times
If your faculty vote to organize to protect academic freedom, a faculty role in governance, and to improve working conditions, what do you do? If you are the administration at Bowling Green, you...
View ArticleBelief and Lazy Consensus: Focusing on Governance
A crucial word in the world of soccer commentary is belief. Related to confidence, belief names the sense a team or player has that they can impose their shape or will on a game. Belief is somewhat...
View ArticleGet Training on How Your University Works at the AAUP Summer Institute
It’s time again to invite all faculty interested in improving their working conditions or in making their university run more effectively to register for the AAUP Summer Institute. Held this year in...
View ArticleDiscretion for Me, Not Thee
For almost any resource that’s scarce at a university, there are probably multiple levels of review. For example, you might have reviews at the department, school (Arts & Sciences, Engineering,...
View ArticleUnderstanding Governance on Your Campus
The big story this week in higher education is obviously at UVA, where the Board of Visitors is apparently engaged in an experiment to see how quickly a great university can be destroyed. The Board’s...
View ArticleFaculty Representation in Governance
Perhaps this will sound familiar from your campus: Some appalling, or just bizarre/confusing, initiative will come down the pike, and faced with faculty protests, the administration will say, “But...
View ArticleNew MLA Guidelines on Digital Authorship and IT Support
This week, the Modern Languages Association‘s Committee on Information Technology released updates to two 2000-era guidelines that will interest many ProfHacker readers: one on authoring digital...
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