politics
Tim’s Tips: Ohio Republicans Seek to Tie Tuition Rates to Students’ Voter Registration
May 17, 2013 by Nick DeSantis The Chronicle of Higher Education Ohio Republicans Seek to Tie Tuition Rates to Students’ Voter Registrations Republicans in the Ohio House of Representatives have included an amendment in the state budget, now under consideration in the State Senate, that would make students eligible for in-state tuition rates if universities [...]
Tim’s Tips: Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement
May 13, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement By Penny Lewis Decades after its conclusion, the U.S. war in Vietnam remains an unsettled part of our collective memory. Members of the military, veterans, scholars, journalists, and artists continue to revisit and reinterpret the war, assessing its historical [...]
Tim’s Tips: Judge Reinstates Pa. College’s Challenge to Contraceptive-Insurance Rule
May 9, 2013 by Nick DeSantis The Chronicle of Higher Education Judge Reinstates Pa. College’s Challenge to Contraceptive-Insurance Rule Geneva College, in Beaver Falls, Pa., was one of several institutions to sue the Obama administration over a rule that would require it to offer health-insurance benefits that cover the cost of contraception. The Christian college’s [...]
Tim’s Tips: Colorado Regent Will Push for Hiring of Conservative Profs
Colorado Regent Will Push for Hiring of Conservative Profs Inside Higher Education April 29, 2013 – 3:00am Jim Geddes, a member of the University of Colorado Board of Regents, is calling on liberal arts departments at the flagship campus at Boulder to hire more professors who are conservatives, The Daily Camera reported. Boulder has long [...]
Tim’s Tips: Education Dept. Warns Colleges Against Retaliating in Civil-Rights Complaints
April 26, 2013 by Nick DeSantis The Chronicle of Higher Education Education Dept. Warns Colleges Against Retaliating in Civil-Rights Complaints The U.S. Department of Education has issued guidance warning schools and colleges of the sanctions they could face if they are found to have retaliated against people who file complaints with the department’s Office for [...]
Tim’s Tips: A Radical Anthropologist Finds Himself in Academic ‘Exile’
April 15, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education A Radical Anthropologist Finds Himself in Academic ‘Exile’ By Christopher Shea Who’s afraid of David Graeber? Not the dozens of D.C.-area residents who showed up on a recent night at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library to hear the anthropologist and radical activist talk about his [...]
Tim’s Tips: Florida Community College Fires Instructor for Electioneering in Class
April 17, 2013 by Nick DeSantis The Chronicle of Higher Education Florida Community College Fires Instructor for Electioneering in Class Brevard Community College’s Board of Trustees voted on Wednesday to terminate an instructor who was found to have pushed students in class to vote for President Obama in last year’s election, according to Florida Today, [...]
Tim’s Tips: The Video and the Context
The Video and the Context Inside Higher Education April 15, 2013 – 3:00am By Scott Jaschik The video went viral on conservative websites late last week. The Fox headline: “USC Political Science Professor Darry Sragow Tells Students Republicans Are ‘Stupid and Racist.’ “ Various conservative websites reposted the video as evidence of “liberal bias” in [...]
Tim’s Tips: How Conservatives Captured the Law
April 15, 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education How Conservatives Captured the Law By Michael Avery and Danielle McLaughlin With a Democratic president beginning his second term in the White House, swinging a more liberal bat than he had in his first term, the conservative legal movement in academe is upping its game…. (Note: May [...]
Tim’s Tips: Self-Fulfilling Professorial Politics
Self-Fulfilling Professorial Politics Inside Higher Education April 9, 2013 – 3:00am By Scott Jaschik Conspiracy theories abound when it comes to professors and politics. To hear some conservatives tell it, a liberal-dominated professoriate attempts to brainwash students and to keep out of the faculty club any who challenge leftist orthodoxy. Ph.D. programs in the humanities [...]
