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AAUP PresentsAcademic Freedom on the Line: Science FundingWe’ve all heard about the changes to federal research funding since the beginning of the Trump administration. This episode of our special series Academic Freedom on the Line takes a deeper look at the landscape of federal research funding. How is research funding allocated? What is disrupted when these funds are precipitously cut? What could this mean for the future of research in the United States? To help us answer these questions, we call on experts in the fields of federal bureaucracy and legal studies. Our guests are Mary Feeney and Ethan Prall. Feeney is...2025-07-2436 min
Original Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder July 14, 2025 American Association of University Professors v. RubioSadly, listeners to Law & Disorder are all too familiar with how the Trump administration has systematically created a climate of repression and fear on our university campuses. Federal agencies are attempting to deport multiple individuals for their pro-Palestinian advocacy, including Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. These actions have sent chills through the community of noncitizen students and faculty on campuses around the country, causing some to pull out of academic conferences, stay home from protests, and...2025-07-1454 min
AAUP PresentsAcademic Freedom: Thinking TransnationallyThis episode of our special series in partnership with the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom zooms out from the “Trump versus Harvard” headlines to situate attacks on US higher education institutions in a transnational context. We ask an interdisciplinary panel of scholars studying different parts of the world to help us set aside American exceptionalist frameworks and understand what is happening in the US in broader geographical, historical, and political contexts. Our guests: Audrey Truschke is Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. For the last three years...2025-06-1847 min
Broken LawEpisode 175: Defending Academic FreedomIn recent weeks, the Trump Administration has escalated intimidation efforts against Harvard University and other private colleges, by canceling billions in federal funding and threatening to revoke tax-exempt status unless the schools make major changes to their hiring and teaching practices. Andrew Manuel Crespo joins Taongal Leslie to discuss the legal strategies behind the administration's attacks on higher education and how the academy can defend its independence.Join the Progressive Legal Movement Today: ACSLaw.orgHost: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director of Policy and Program, ACSGuest: Andrew M...2025-05-271h 01
AAUP PresentsEducational (e)quality on the LineThis episode of our special series “Academic Freedom on the Line” takes a look at accreditation, a seemingly complex but essential mechanism for safeguarding both the quality of education our institutions offer as well as the institutional and disciplinary autonomy that allows them to create and enforce standards of rigor without direct interference from the federal government. Robert Shireman of the Century Foundation joins us to demystify the role of accreditation agencies and help us understand why changes to accreditation threaten academic freedom in the United States. Links: CDAF’s...2025-05-1535 min
AAUP PresentsAcademic Freedom On the Line: The StudentsIn this episode, we speak with a coalition of student leaders actively organizing against state-level DEI bans in Texas and Kentucky. This is the third episode in the special series, "Academic Freedom on the Line," being produced in conjunction with the AAUP's Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (CDAF). Host Vineeta Singh also speaks with Clare Carter at the Freedom to Learn team to help us understand how state legislatures have attacked the principles of academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and shared governance, and then we get to hear from the students about what this has looked like on t...2025-04-3045 min
Unpacking ZionismFrom Above: Mothers Against College Antisemitism (MACA) with Zach SamalinThis is the first episode in a mini-series called "From Above," which looks at the Zionist organizations that have been laying the groundwork for Trump-era fascism and are now helping it advance. This mini-series isn’t so much a “how did we get here” as an effort to demystify the ongoing structures of Zionism that underwrite this present moment. In this episode, we’re joined by Zach Samalin from New York University to discuss the group called Mothers Against College Antisemitism (MACA), which was among the first Zionist groups to publicly embrace Trump’s deportation machine. RESOURCEShttps...2025-04-1436 min
Block & BuildMAGA’s Campus Crusade w/ Aaron NisensonThis week on the show we take a look at how ICE is being used to disappear outspoken voices and effective organizers from their communities; from campuses to farms. It’s also challenging to think through what we can do to fight back...but as you know, that’s what we do on this show.
First, we look at how detainment and deportation is being weaponized against labor organizers. Cayden is joined by organizer with Community to Community, Liz Darrow to discuss this and the work being done to free illegally detained farmworker unionist, Alfredo Juarez.
Th...2025-04-1453 min
Working People‘People are hiding in their apartments’: Inside Trump’s assault on universitiesInternational students are being abducted and disappeared by ICE in broad daylight. Life-saving research projects across the academy are being halted or thrown into disarray by seismic cuts to federal grants. Dozens of universities are under federal investigation for their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, their allowance of trans athletes to compete in college sports, and their tolerance of constitutionally protected Palestine solidarity protests. In today’s urgent episode of Working People, we get a harrowing, on-the-ground view of the Trump administration’s all-out assault on institutions of higher education and the people who live, learn, and work there. TRNN...2025-04-131h 00
The Real News PodcastFunding cuts, ICE abductions, chaos, fear: Higher education in the new Trump era | Working PeopleInternational students are being abducted and disappeared by ICE in broad daylight. Life-saving research projects across the academy are being halted or thrown into disarray by seismic cuts to federal grants. Dozens of universities are under federal investigation for their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, their allowance of trans athletes to compete in college sports, and their tolerance of constitutionally protected Palestine solidarity protests. In today’s urgent episode of Working People, we get a harrowing, on-the-ground view of the Trump administration's all-out assault on institutions of higher education and the people who live, learn, and work there. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Max...2025-04-111h 00
Labor Radio-Podcast WeeklyEverything U$P$; ETUI Podcast; Buwa Basebetsi Updates; El Cafecito del Día; AAUP Presents; Labor JawnOn this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: the US Postal Service is under the most existential attack in it’s history; Everything U$P$ assesses the situation.
What's behind Europe's labor shortages? We’ll find out, on the ETUI Podcast.
From brand-new Network member Buwa Basebetsi Updates; migrant workers say enough is enough.
Machinists Secretary-Treasurer Dora Cervantes talks about Latinas in the labor movement on El Cafecito del Día.
AAUP Presents talks with Stephanie Hall about how academic freedom is on the line.
And, in our final segment, the Labor Jawn podcast...2025-03-2834 min
AAUP PresentsPublic Life on the LineThis is the second episode of the limited series AAUP Presents: Academic Freedom on the Line. Our guest Dr. Stephanie Hall is a leading expert on college accountability and the for-profit higher education industry. Her research and advocacy in these areas have been instrumental for federal and state legislation, congressional oversight, and federal agency action. We ask her what the Department of Education is for, why the right perceives it as a threat, and how the right uses “polarizing” language to obfuscate its attacks on civil rights. CDAF host Vineeta Singh is joined for this episode by Hall and...2025-03-2532 min
AAUP PresentsAnticipatory Obedience: 'To Yield a Little is to Run the Risk of Sacrificing All'In this episode we discuss the AAUP's statement "Against Anticipatory Obedience" which offers guidelines about how to respond to attacks on higher ed like those being launched by the Trump administration and its right wing allies. The statement says in times like these, "it is the higher education community’s responsibility not to surrender to such attacks—and not to surrender in anticipation of them. Instead, we must vigorously and loudly oppose them." Henry Reichman, a professor emeritus of history at California State University–East Bay and one of the statement's writers, walks us through the history and the recomm...2025-03-2551 min
AAUP PresentsAcademic Freedom on the LineThis episode kicks off a new limited series hosted by the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (CDAF), AAUP Presents: Academic Freedom on the Line. CDAF serves as a resource and knowledge hub for all people—including faculty, students, campus workers, alumni, administrators, trustees, parents, journalists, policymakers, and business leaders—seeking to build a flourishing higher education system, rooted in institutional autonomy, workplace democracy, and freedom from coercion and external interference. Its current projects include an Academic Freedom field guide that curates resources for individuals, institutions, and organizations facing attacks on academic freedom and Executive Power...2025-03-2541 min
Good News For Lefties (and America!) - Daily News for DemocracyBernie Sanders In Nebraska, Trump Loses On DEI, and Fighting Offshore DrillingPositive, daily news for democracy lovers! From Bernie Sanders rallying thousands in GOP strongholds to a federal judge halting Trump's anti-DEI orders, we explore the triumphs of democracy and the fight for equity. We also celebrate the signing of "Karina's Law" in Illinois, aimed at protecting domestic violence survivors, and the legal victories for diversity in higher education. Plus, environmental groups are taking a stand against Trump's offshore drilling plans. Join us for a dose of optimism and humor as we navigate the daily news landscape, proving that leftist ideals are alive and well in America.Listen...2025-02-2412 min
AAUP PresentsOn Institutional NeutralityIn this episode we discuss the AAUP's new statement On Institutional Neutrality. As college and university communities begin to suffer the consequences of unchecked power, the statement reaffirms that institutional neutrality is neither a necessary condition for academic freedom nor categorically incompatible with it—and that respect for faculty voices and shared governance procedures is essential to sound decision-making and the protection of those who dissent.Our guests are the report's coauthors, Joan Wallach Scott and Brian Soucek. Scott is a historian and an emerita professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a member of AAUP’s Com...2025-02-1239 min
America’s Work Force Union PodcastTim Burga, OH AFL-CIO | Sara Kilpatrick, AAUP Ohio ConferenceTim Burga, President of the Ohio AFL-CIO, joined America's Work Force Union Podcast to discuss the Democratic National Committee's new leadership, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's proposed budget and two anti-union bills under consideration in the Ohio Legislature.
Sara Kilpatrick, Executive Director of the Ohio Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), joined America's Workforce Union Podcast to discuss the implications of Ohio Senate Bill 1 on academic freedom, its anti-union provisions and the broader political motivations behind the proposed legislation.
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So to Speak: The Free Speech PodcastEp. 231: What is academic freedom? With Keith Whittington“Who controls what is taught in American universities — professors or politicians?” Yale Law professor Keith Whittington answers this timely question and more in his new book, “You Can’t Teach That! The Battle over University Classrooms.” He joins the podcast to discuss the history of academic freedom, the difference between intramural and extramural speech, and why there is a “weaponization” of intellectual diversity. Keith E. Whittington is the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Whittington’s teaching and scholarship span American constitutional theory, American political and constitutional history, judicial politics, the presidency, and free speech an...2024-12-121h 07
AAUP PresentsThe Nonpartisan College Voter Registration and Education Project: What Faculty Can DoIn this episode we discuss the Nonpartisan College Voter Registration and Education Project, a student voter registration project that aims to increase student voter registration and turnout by asking faculty to devote five minutes of class time to voter education and on-the-spot voter registration.The guests are Sam Novey, Chief Strategist at the University of Maryland Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement, and Michael Rosenblum, professor of biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University and affiliate of the Johns Hopkins SNF Agora Institute for strengthening global democracy. He is an AAUP member in the Johns Hopkins chapter of the A...2024-09-3018 minUnpacking ZionismReclaiming Knowledge Production, Resisting Zionist Enclosures“Reclaiming Knowledge Production, Resisting Zionist Enclosures” is a recording of a panel discussion among scholars, organizers, and faculty labor leaders who are resisting Israel’s genocide of Palestinian in Gaza and also resisting the upsurging forces of intellectual and cultural repression in the US. The panel is moderated by Black studies scholar and ICSZ collective member Dylan Rodriguez, with brilliant talks from Heather Ferguson, Pranav Jani, Aaron Kirshenbaum, and Karim Mattar.We’re also really proud to announce that with this talk, we kick off the Coalition to End Zionist Repression — and its first campaign, called the Right to R...2024-09-231h 30
AAUP PresentsNew AAUP Statement on Academic Boycotts: What It Really MeansIn this episode we discuss academic boycotts and the AAUP's revised policy on boycotts, released this August. We’ll hear more about the statement, how it came about, and where it fits in the current debates about academic freedom in higher education. The guests are Rana Jaleel, an associate professor at the University of California at Davis and chair of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, and Risa L. Lieberwitz, a professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the general counsel of the AAUP. She is also a member of Committee A.2024-09-2034 min
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Labor History TodayThe AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965Between 1955 and 1965, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) investigated numerous southern institutions of higher education that had dismissed faculty members for publicly supporting desegregation and racial equality. In today’s episode, from the AAUP Presents podcast, a discussion with Joy Ann Williamson-Lott, dean of the graduate school and professor of social and cultural foundations in the College of Education at the University of Washington, drawing on her recently published article, "The AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965.”
On this week’s Labor History in Two: The year was 1821. That was the day Knights of Labor founder Uriah Smi...2024-08-0442 min
Labor Radio-Podcast WeeklyOn the Line; Power at Work; Organizing for a Change Radio; AAUP PresentsOn this week’s show: Project 2025 and the labor movement…The plan to destroy worker power…Universal basic income and the 4 day week…The AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955-1965.
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Power At WorkThe Power Hour #8: Democracy Under Attack: Lieberwitz and Reddy on Unions, Universities, the Supreme Court, and more!In this edition of The Power Hour, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Risa Lieberwitz, a Professor of Labor and Employment Law in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR); and Diana Reddy, an Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley's School of Law; to discuss changes and infringement's on democracy taking place in labor unions, universities in the U.S., recent Supreme Court decisions, and more.
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Risa L. Lieberwitz is a Professor of Labor and Employment Law in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), where she has been a professor since 1982. Sh...2024-07-1558 min
AAUP PresentsThe AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965In this episode, I discuss the AAUP’s involvement in the Black Freedom Struggle in the 1950s and 1960s as it related to higher ed with Joy Ann Williamson-Lott, dean of the graduate school and professor of social and cultural foundations in the College of Education at the University of Washington. Drawing on her recently published article of the same name in AAUP's Academe, we discuss how Black private institutions, Black public institutions, and white public institutions in the period approached the civil rights movement as it related to academic freedom on campus; Williamson-Lott gives us examples and perspective on...2024-07-1135 min
AAUP PresentsThe Campus Protests: A View from the GroundAs campus protests in support of Palestine are met with often violent and repressive crackdowns, we talk to three faculty members, all AAUP members, who report on what's happening at their respective campuses. We speak to Annelise Orleck at Dartmouth College, whose arrest at a May 1 protest at Dartmouth garnered significant press coverage, Todd Wolfson at Rutgers University, where faculty supported students as they came to a negotiated solution to end their encampment, and Nivedita Majumdar at John Jay College in the City University of New York system, where 173 people were arrested during protest at the the end of Ap...2024-05-1051 minLabor Radio-Podcast WeeklyAAUP Presents; Power at Work; PFFA Pod; Union or BustPolitical interference in higher ed, from the AAUP Presents podcast; on thePower at Work podcast, Stadium battles: how to beat a billionaire; we meet Fire fighter Audrey Tollefson on the Air Line Pilot Podcast, and on Union or Bust, Paul Diaz, the Portland iron worker from the Chasing the Hook podcast, another Network member. Plus: why the Weekly is good RX.
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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working...2024-05-1029 min
AAUP PresentsPolitical Interference in Higher Ed: Escalations, Attacks, and the Billionaires Behind ItAs violent, militarized responses to protests on campuses across the country continue, in this episode we look at how political interference in higher education has expanded in dangerous ways. We discuss how the right (and increasingly the center) have demonized higher education as a public good, and examine the historical origins of the current onslaught of political interference in higher ed.Isaac Kamola, an associate professor of political science at Trinity College in Connecticut guests. He is the director of the AAUP’s newly established Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, which will examine and confr...2024-05-0352 min
AAUP PresentsEdTech: The Perils of Bad Data in Higher EdIn this episode we dive into how data, educational technologies (or “EdTech”), and other technological forces are shaping and sometimes harming higher education. The guests are Martha Fay Burtis, an associate director of the Open Learning and Teaching Collaborative at Plymouth State University, and Jesse Stommel, a faculty member in the writing program at the University of Denver and cofounder of Hybrid Pedagogy: The Journal of Critical Digital Pedagogy.In a recent article for the AAUP's Academe magazine, Burtis and Stommel explain how “increasingly, technology companies are treating educational institutions as conglomerations of data, reducing the human teacher...2024-05-0343 min
AAUP PresentsA National Day of Action For Higher EducationFaculty and student groups at more than 50 U.S. college and university campuses will hold a National Day of Action for Higher Education on Wednesday, April 17 in a coordinated nationwide counterprotest against the sustained right-wing assault on American higher education as a public good.Organizers say the Day of Action for Higher Education will demonstrate how cross-rank organizing, robust faculty governance, labor solidarity, and protection of the freedom to teach and learn are crucial to the survival of higher education and to its vital social purpose in a democracy. In this episode host Mariah Quinn, t...2024-04-0850 minLabor Radio-Podcast WeeklyUnion or Bust; AAUP Presents; SayWatt; Working to Live In Southwest Washington; On The Line: Stories of BC WorkersOn this week’s show: Members of IATSE Local 122 discuss their contract fight in San Diego; Fighting political interference in higher ed: From Florida to Texas, Ohio to Indiana, politicians are trying to substitute their own ideological beliefs for educational freedom by passing legislation that interferes with how colleges and universities operate. Then, a chat with Jamell Thrower, National Secretary of the Electrical Workers Minority Caucus. Next, meet Ray Connor, the new president of the Southwest Washington Central Labor Council. And in our final segment, Paul Robeson sings at Peace Arch Park.
This week’s featured shows: Unio...2024-03-0829 min
AAUP PresentsFighting Political Interference in Higher Ed: Lessons Learned in Ohio and TexasFrom Florida to Texas to Ohio to Indiana politicians in some states are trying to substitute their own ideological beliefs for educational freedom by passing legislation that interferes with how colleges and universities operate. They’re introducing bills that mandate or prohibit content in the classroom, empower partisan political appointees to determine campus policy, limit the freedom to learn, teach, and conduct research.In this episode we look at member-led efforts to fight legislative interference in Texas and Ohio, specifically pushing back against bills targeting diversity equity and inclusion programs, tenure, and collective bargaining. We talk about eac...2024-02-2835 minLabor Radio-Podcast WeeklyWork Week Radio; Working Voices; Bridging The Iron; El Cafecito del Día; AAUP PresentsOn today’s show: a 24-hour strike at the Washington Post, Medieval Times workers stand up for their animals, talking about mental health and addiction in the trades, la victoria de los trabajadores in the entertainment industry, and political interference in Florida higher ed.
This week’s featured shows are Work Week Radio, which airs Thursday afternoons from 12 to 2 PST on San Francisco KPOO.com 89.5 FM; Working Voices, airing weekly on KPFK 90.7, also in San Francisco; Bridging The Iron, the podcast from Portland Oregon's Ironworkers Local 29; El Cafecito del Día, the podcast from LCLAA, the Labor Counc...2023-12-1526 min
Changing Higher EdAAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher EducationThe American Association of University Professors (AAUP) released its comprehensive report titled "Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida's Public Higher Education System." This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP's history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. Hank Reichman, co-author of the report and co-chair of AAUP, joins the Changing Higher Ed podcast to discuss the report and provides details about Governor DeSantis's legislative efforts to control what can be taught, how it's taught and who teaches, particularly attacking...2023-12-1249 min
AAUP PresentsPolitical Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System.In this podcast we discuss the AAUP's special report Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System. The report offers an in-depth review of a pattern of politically, racially, and ideologically motivated attacks on public higher education in Florida, which have largely occurred during the term of Governor Ron DeSantis. The guests are Afshan Jafar, a professor of Sociology at Connecticut College and a co-chair of the special committee, Henry Reichman, professor of history California State University, East Bay, also a co-chair of the committee, and Liz Leininger, a neuroscience professor who was pre...2023-12-051h 01
AAUP PresentsEquity In Higher Ed after the Affirmative Action DecisionIn this episode, Michaele Turnage Young, a senior counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, discusses this summer’s Supreme Court affirmative action decision and talks about how creating equity in higher ed requires reimagining and reexamining what the education system can do to expand access to higher education. The episode is hosted by Mariah Quinn, AAUP's digital organizer. Show Notes: AAUP resources on diversity in higher educationThe Legal Defense Fund website2023-11-2929 min
AAUP PresentsThe Rutgers Strike and the Wall-to-Wall ModelIn this episode, we discuss the unprecedented strike earlier this year at Rutgers University with Todd Wolfson, the president of Rutgers AAUP-AFT. Of the strike and their common good model of organizing, he had this to say: “For 50 years, I’d say public universities have been on the defensive.” Now, he said, “I think we turned the tables and we moved the ball perceptively in the other direction.” The episode is hosted by Mariah Quinn, AAUP's digital organizer. Episode links: Rutgers AAUP-AFT website"Reclaiming Paul Robeson in the Time of COVID-19," Todd Wolfson and Don...2023-10-0229 min
AAUP PresentsAcademia, Women of Color, and Motherhood: A Conversation with Atia SattarIn this episode we talk to Atia Sattar, an associate professor (teaching) in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California, about the article she wrote for AAUP’s Academe magazine entitled “Academic Motherhood and the Unrecognized Labors of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Women of Color.”In it, she wrote, “while women in higher education often face a career penalty for their struggles with infertility and motherhood, women of color do so within an institutional context that also frequently undervalues them and is dismissive of their abilities.” Listen to episode for more. The episode is...2023-10-0134 min
AAUP PresentsHigher Ed After the Affirmative Action DecisionIn this episode we examine the changing higher ed landscape after the Supreme Court decision in the case Students for Fair Admissions, INC, v. President and Fellows of Harvard College which effectively ended effectively end race-conscious admissions.The guests are Charles Toombs and Risa Lieberwitz. Charles Toombs, a Professor of Africana Studies at San Diego State University and president of the California Faculty Association. He is the immediate past chair of AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Risa L. Lieberwitz, a professor of labor and employment law in the Cornell University School of Industrial and...2023-09-1244 min
AAUP PresentsThe Racial Equity Initiative at the AAUPIn this episode we focus on AAUP’s work around racial justice. This is the first in a series of podcasts this season that will examine issues around the fight for greater racial equity in higher education. Tune in to hear our discussion about efforts to restrict teaching about race, the racial equity initiative at the AAUP, and what's ahead. The guest are Irene Mulvey and Glinda Rawls. Irene Mulvey is the president of the AAUP. She taught mathematics for 40 years, first at Swarthmore College and then Fairfield University in Connecticut. In Fall 2022, she retired as a full...2023-09-0833 min
Out d’Coup PodcastFriday Politics Roundup | Trump indictments; UPS Teamsters deal; AAUP joins AFT; era of global boiling; electric car infrastructure; CBSD sweetheart deal; Pennridge secrets; Barbie; Sinéad O’ConnorNew indictments against Trump announced. The ditch keeps getting deeper.
UPS Teamsters announced a “historic” contract win a week before what could have been one of the largest strikes in American history. The details of the contract will be the proof to that claim. Since the announcement some UPS Teamsters are saying the unions 180,000 part-time workers may not get as good of a deal as suggested.
In what could prove to be a sign that higher education faculty are willing to step up and fight to a greater degree, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP...2023-07-291h 12
Beyond the News WFLA InterviewsProf Henry Reichman - AAUP vs Florida University SystemThe American Association of University Professors declares in a preliminary report that Florida's public colleges and universities are "under assault" by recent efforts such as the ban on DEI courses and the overhaul at New College in Sarasota. We speak with Professor Henry Reichman, professor emeritus at Cal State - East Bay. He chairs the AAUP's committee on academic freedom.2023-05-2510 min
The Real News PodcastDuke University's ploy to ban graduate student unions at all private universitiesAt colleges and universities across the country, a heated battle is playing out right now over workers' right to organize and have a say over how the institutions they keep afloat with their labor are run. From graduate student-worker unionization efforts and strikes at Temple University, the University of California, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern University, Northeastern University, the University of Chicago, and Indiana University, to faculty strikes (and near-strikes) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, The New School, Howard University, etc., to workers across the higher ed sector striking in the UK, the academic labor movement is one...2023-03-301h 10
Working PeopleA "Do or Die" Moment for the Academic Labor Movement (w/ Matt Thomas, Kristina Mensik, Bryan Sacks, & Todd Wolfson)At colleges and universities across the country, a heated battle is playing out right now over workers' right to organize and have a say over how the institutions they keep afloat with their labor are run. From graduate student-worker unionization efforts and strikes at Temple University, the University of California, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern University, Northeastern University, the University of Chicago, and Indiana University, to faculty strikes (and near-strikes) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, The New School, Howard University, etc., to workers across the higher ed sector striking in the UK, the academic labor movement is...2023-03-241h 36
AAUP PresentsThe High Court Weighs in on Student Debt ReliefWe’re returning to the topic of student debt after this week’s arguments before the Supreme Court over the Biden administration’s student debt relief program. Risa Lieberwitz, AAUP’s general counsel and a professor of labor and employment law in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and Jenna Sablan, AAUP’s senior program officer for government relations, weigh in on what happened at the high court this week and what's next. In August, the Department of Education announced that borrowers with federally-held loans making less than $125K for individuals or $250K for households w...2023-03-0233 min
AAUP PresentsThe Case of Dr. Mark McPhailIn this episode we discuss the AAUP’s new investigative report on the summary suspension and dismissal of Dr. Mark McPhail, at Indiana University Northwest. In September 2021, the administration dispatched campus police officers to McPhail’s home to inform him that he had been dismissed and banned from campus, supposedly for making racially charged threats of physical violence. No accuser was identified, and no criminal charges were filed. An AAUP investigation found that, in acting against McPhail, the administration disregarded AAUP-supported standards of academic due process. The committee deemed “implausible” the charge that McPhail had made violent...2023-02-1536 min
Glass Box PodcastEp 114 — CES; The RevisionariesEducation is a battleground for the hearts and minds of the future. The Church Education System of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded in 1980, but the history of education in Mormonism is far more complex. We do a deep dive into how the CES started and the sordid pasts of the various educational institutions attached to the Church at some point. There’s also a tangential deep dive into seminary and the legal sphere of “released time” classes carving out exemptions where religion can be taught in public schools. Then we discuss the modern battlefield of pub...2023-01-042h 44Glass Box PodcastEp 114 — CES; The RevisionariesEducation is a battleground for the hearts and minds of the future. The Church Education System of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded in 1980, but the history of education in Mormonism is far more complex. We do a deep dive into how the CES started and the sordid pasts of the various educational institutions attached to the Church at some point. There’s also a tangential deep dive into seminary and the legal sphere of “released time” classes carving out exemptions where religion can be taught in public schools. Then we discuss the modern battlefield of pub...2023-01-042h 44AAUP PresentsAAUP Presents: The Past, Present, and Future of the Student Debt CrisisAs student debt has grown astronomically over the past few decades, topping $1.7 trillion in federal and privately held debt, there seemed a moment of (limited) hope over the summer after years of activism and pressure when the Biden administration announced a federal plan to cancel $10K of debt for most federal loan holders and $20K of debt for those who had received Pell Grants. That plan ground to a halt in November when Republican-led courts halted the program. In this episode we discuss the current state of student debt in the U.S., how we got here, and where...2022-12-2139 minAAUP PresentsAAUP Presents: Black Out: Backlash and Betrayal in the Academy and BeyondIn this episode we sit down with Professor Lori Latrice Martin, an associate dean in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University, to discuss her article “Black Out: Backlash and Betrayal in the Academy and Beyond,” which examines what Professor Martin describes as the "predictability of efforts to silence conversations and actions related to combating anti-Blackness in America and the continued use of Black deaths to further the social, economic, and political progress of non-Black groups in the academy and beyond" in the aftermath of th...2022-12-2027 minAAUP PresentsStolen Lands and State UniversitiesIn this episode of the podcast we discuss the issue of the massive transfer of wealth from tribal nations who underwrote the founding of land-grant universities and how institutions are beginning to address and contend with difficult questions about their relationship to Indigenous communities. The issue is the topic of a recent article in AAUP’s Academe magazine entitled “Confronting the Wealth Transfer from Tribal Nations That Established Land-Grant Universities” written by today’s guests, Stephen M. Gavazzi, a professor of human development and family science in the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State University, and John N. Lo...2022-08-0344 min
New Books in EducationAn Inside Look at the American Association of University ProfessorsWelcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
Why the AAUP was formed.
Their role in supporting academic freedom.
Why the threat to tenure is a threat to higher education.
The importance of collective bargaining, and of transparency in academic salaries.
Our guest is: Dr. Irene Mulvey, who is a Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University where she has been teaching for 37 years. She has been fighting to protect academic freedom, to promote shared governance, and to uphold AAUP principles and standards at the campus, state and national level for ov...2022-06-231h 01
New Books in Higher EducationAn Inside Look at the American Association of University ProfessorsWelcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
Why the AAUP was formed.
Their role in supporting academic freedom.
Why the threat to tenure is a threat to higher education.
The importance of collective bargaining, and of transparency in academic salaries.
Our guest is: Dr. Irene Mulvey, who is a Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University where she has been teaching for 37 years. She has been fighting to protect academic freedom, to promote shared governance, and to uphold AAUP principles and standards at the campus, state and national level for ov...2022-06-231h 01
The Academic LifeAn Inside Look at the American Association of University ProfessorsWelcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
Why the AAUP was formed.
Their role in supporting academic freedom.
Why the threat to tenure is a threat to higher education.
The importance of collective bargaining, and of transparency in academic salaries.
Our guest is: Dr. Irene Mulvey, who is a Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University where she has been teaching for 37 years. She has been fighting to protect academic freedom, to promote shared governance, and to uphold AAUP principles and standards at the campus, state and national level for ov...2022-06-231h 01
Office Hours wth Dr. De VeauOffice Hours Replay: UNC Special Committee ReportThank you for making “What’s Up in the Academy?” the #1 Substack for Higher Education Show Description: On April 28 the American Association of University Professors released a report of the Special Committee on Governance, Academic Freedom, and Institutional Racism in the University of North Carolina System. This replay of the June 1, 2022 episode of “Office Hours with Dr. De Veau” we were joined by Dr. Henry Reichman, a member of the committee to discuss the results of this system wide investigation which ultimately discovered extraordinary partisanship and political interference that has resulted in deep racism across the system that has im...2022-06-061h 00AAUP PresentsGovernance, Academic Freedom & Institutional Racism in the UNC System On April 28 the AAUP released a report of the Special Committee on Governance, Academic Freedom, and Institutional Racism in the University of North Carolina System. The report considers the influence of the North Carolina state legislature on the systemwide board of governors and campus boards of trustees. It discusses how political pressure and top-down leadership have obstructed meaningful faculty participation in the UNC system, jeopardized academic freedom, and reinforced institutional racism.The guests are the co-chairs of the special committee that wrote the report, Nicholas Fleisher, professor of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Afshan J...2022-04-2834 min
So to Speak: The Free Speech PodcastEp. 158 What is academic freedom?What is academic freedom? And who polices its boundaries? Our guests on today’s show argue that the popular conception of academic freedom has become too closely connected with the concept of free speech. Penn State Professor Michael Bérubé and Portland State Professor Jennifer Ruth are the authors of “It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom.” Show notes: Transcript The AAUP’s 1915 and 1940 statements on academic freedom The AAUP’s “On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes” “When Professors’ Speech Is Disqualifying” by Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth...2022-04-211h 26AAUP PresentsLegislative Threats to Academic FreedomIn this episode we discuss AAUP’s recently released statement from Committee A, Legislative Threats to Academic Freedom: Redefinitions of Antisemitism and Racism, which addresses partisan efforts in state legislatures to enact bills targeting teaching about Israel and about the history of racism in the United States, in ways that present a significant threat to academic freedom. The guests are Rana Jaleel, an associate professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at the University of California, Davis, and a member of the AAUP’s Committee A, and Risa Lieberwitz, who is AAUP’s general counsel and a professo...2022-04-1339 minAAUP PresentsA Conversation with Rep. Michele Rayner of Florida The AAUP’s Kelly Benjamin talks to Michele Rayner, a member of the Florida House of Representatives, about attacks on academic freedom, the motivation for anti-critical race theory bills, and the state of the broader political situation in Florida. Episode update: When the episode was recorded, a bill Kelly and Rep. Rayner discussed that would make public college presidential searches in Florida secret had not passed the state legislature. It has since passed and Florida governor Ron DeSantis is expected to sign it. See the article below for more information.Episode Links:2022-03-0823 minAAUP PresentsThe Fight for Academic Freedom at the University of FloridaAfter the University of Florida administration blocked faculty from testifying in a voting rights case, a battle over academic freedom broke out in the state, garnering national attention and a court case. Paul Ortiz, professor of history at the University of Florida and president of the United Faculty of Florida-UF, talks to host Mariah Quinn about how faculty in the state are geared up to protect academic freedom and the first amendment.Episode links:AAUP President Cautions Against Lack of Transparency as University of Florida Seeks New PresidentUniversity of Florida's Politically Motivated Violation of Academic Freedom U...2022-03-0335 minAAUP PresentsThe Student Debt Crisis and Public Service Loan ForgivenessThis podcast discusses the student debt crisis, which affects than forty-five million people in the United States who are saddled with debt in excess of $1.7 trillion, and perils and promise of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. The guests are Kaitlyn Vitez, Federal Government Relations Specialist, AAUP national office and Jessica Sponsler, art historian and adjunct professor and AAUP’s Pennsylvania state conference president. The podcast is hosted by Mariah Quinn, AAUP's digital organizer.Episode links:AAUP Joins Coalition to Call for Student Debt Cancelation"The Miseducation of the Indebted Student," Academe, Jason Thom...2022-03-0232 min
Armchair HistoriansEllen Shrecker, Is Today's Anti-intellectualism Worse than McCarthyism?In this episode, Anne Marie talks to Yeshiva University professor emerita Ellen Schrecker about the history leading up to today's anti-intellectualism.Ellen has been involved with the politics of higher education and academic freedom for decades. According to Ellen, the current right-wing campaign against teaching critical race theory and other so-called “divisive concepts” is by far the most serious threat to academic freedom (as well as K-12 education) the United States has ever experienced. Schrecker’s research and experience enable her to speak about the impact of these issues, as well as explain why today’s anti-in...2022-03-0143 min
AAUP PresentsAAUP Presents: A conversation with AAUP president Irene Mulvey We're joined on the podcast by Irene Mulvey, a professor of mathematics at Fairfield University and the AAUP’s current president. We'll cover the AAUP's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, current fights to protect academic freedom and shared governance, and plans for a new deal for higher education. Episode links:AAUP's COVID-19 resourcesSpecial report on COVID-19 and Academic GovernanceCoverage of the University of Florida and the fight over academic freedom University of Georgia system under investigationSpecial Committee to Report on Structural Racism and V...2021-12-0318 min
AAUP PresentsAAUP Presents: The Annual Report of the Economic Status of the Profession and Institutional DebtThis podcast focuses on the 2020-2021 Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, which presents findings from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey, as well as taking a deeper dive into the issue of institutional debt, which is covered in a special section of the report. This annual report outlines how years of unstable funding, combined with the impacts of the COVID‑19 pandemic, have created an existential threat to shared governance and academic freedom in higher education that severely weakens our nation’s ability to effectively educate our communities. The guests are Glenn Colby and Ele...2021-11-2320 min
AAUP PresentsAAUP Presents: Shared GovernanceThis podcast focuses on shared governance in higher ed. The AAUP released three reports this year looking at data collected from our national shared governance survey. The reports looked at the impact of the pandemic on shared governance, the demographics of senate chairs and governance structures, and faculty roles in decision-making. We’ll be discussing those reports and more, as well as discussing the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on shared governance. This podcast features guests Joerg Tiede and Michael DeCesare. Joerg is the director of research at the AAUP, who conducts survey research on academic freedom, tenu...2021-11-2232 min
The Academic Freedom PodcastUnderstanding Academic Freedom with AAUP‘s Hank ReichmanThe AFA's Keith Whittington interviews Hank Reichman, professor emeritus of history at California State University-East Bay, former AAUP vice president, and former chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure from 2012 to 2021. Reichman is the author of the recently released book Understanding Academic Freedom from Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Residential SpreadCensure!After the University System of Georgia voted unanimously to put new limits on the protections of tenure, the entire system may face censure from the AAUP. What does that mean? We take a look at the list of schools currently facing AAUP censure to find out.Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12xkAZEScNuyVpsjfag9eMLMdCyEjZN_dHgGg9bJj0ls/edit?usp=sharing--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/residential-spread/message2021-11-0143 minThe Academic Freedom PodcastGeorgia‘s Post-Tenure Review Policy: The Death of Tenure?The AFA's Keith Whittington is joined by Professor Matthew Boedy, president of the Georgia Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and Tyler Coward, the Senior Legislative Counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Matthew and Tyler join to discuss the new post-tenure review policy from the Georgia Board of Regents, which the AAUP is calling "the death of tenure." For additional information, please see the AAUP's letter objecting to the policy, FIRE's letter to the regents about the policy, and the policy itself (beginning on page 50).
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COVIDCallsEP #333 - 09.02.2021 - Disability Rights, Activism, and COVID w/Ashley ShewToday I talk with disability activist and scholar Ashley Shew, professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Ashley Shew is an associate professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. Her current work, as part of a National Science Foundation CAREER grant, examines narratives disabled people share about technology, that are often different from dominant ways of thinking about disability tech. She is co-editor of three edited volumes in philosophy of technology, current co-editor-in-chief of Techné (the journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology), and author of Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge (2017). She w...2021-09-031h 14
Natural Reward PodcastFollow up with Komi German: reviewer’s reaction to her workIn this episode, I speak with Dr. Komi German about a reviewer’s reaction to her book proposal. All academics deal with rejection. How a researcher deals with rejection determines whether she gets her work published, and how it will appear. We brainstorm strategies to deal with the reviewer’s response and the question of what approach to take in a revision. We discuss whether Komi should try to appeal to her opponents, or whether she should try to appeal to third parties. We also cover some of the issues surrounding Freedom of Expression, including those raised by foundational docu...2021-08-2758 min
UNDER THE RADAR with Host Frank FearIn Higher Education, It's 'Follow the Money,' TooPolitically motivated philanthropy can influence who gets hired, who is awarded tenure/promoted, and what is taught/researched. Subject-matter priorities include promoting the primacy of free-market capitalism and safeguarding the ethic of American Exceptionalism. Recent efforts have focused on restricting teaching the legacy of racism in America, including rejecting Critical Race Theory as a legitimate framework for interpreting U.S. history. Thankfully, academics across the country are responding to these pernicious activities. We feature two of those colleagues in today's program--ISAAC KAMOLA, Trinity College, and BETHANY LETIECQ, George Mason University. Kamola’s recent article in Inside Higher Education, "Where Doe...2021-07-151h 29
re:verbE56: Black Artistic and Academic Labor From the Nixon Era to Critical Race Theory (w/ Dr. Richard Purcell)On today’s show, Ben and Calvin have the privilege of speaking with Dr. Richard Purcell, Associate Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. We begin by discussing Rich’s current research on conceptions of work in Black artistic labor, and how that led him back to considering the discursive formations of a Nixon-era economic initiative/slogan known as “Black Capitalism.” We discuss Nixon’s policy efforts to revitalize Black economic citizenship as a way of pacifying radical resistance, as well as the ensuing debates among Black intellectuals over labor and capital in the 1970s and 1980s. Then, Rich connects t...2021-07-091h 23
For the Record, An AACRAO PodcastThe Academic CalendarDescription: Most people don’t give the academic calendar a second thought...those people are not registrars. The way the academic year has been structured has changed over time, and will likely continue to change. Registrars will remain front and center in the management of the academic calendar. In this episode we dive into the history of the various calendar categories, highlight some considerations for creating an academic calendar, and present best practices for making sure the dates are accurate and the appropriate people are informed. Key Takeaways:Th...2021-07-0233 min
Parents & Professors PodcastEpisode 2 - What is it you say you do here?: Tenure-Track Faculty LifeGuess what? Another state is coming for tenure. Drs. Dorimé-Williams and Williams get into their unique perspectives on life as tenure-track professors. Dr. Dorimé-Williams also starts her new segment. Iowa, we love you. #Bars
Our Attempt at Minute Markers:
Introduction | What do you say you do here - Tenure & Higher Education | 1:00
Faculty Work-Life Balance | 12:45
Iowa | 27:00
Faculty Time | 36:00
Scholar Shouts:
Eboni Zamani-Gallagher | https://education.illinois.edu/faculty/eboni-zamanigallaher
Sharon Fries-Britt | https://education.umd.edu/directory/sharon-fries-britt
Terrell Strayhorn | https://www.vuu.edu/center-for-study-of-hbcus/dr-terrell-strayhorn
Optional Additional Reading:
Kansas's state governing board ma...2021-05-0643 min
The Jews Are Tired56. Defining Antisemitism, Part 1Trying to define antisemitism is all the rage. But trying to find and agree on a definition is creating rage. Part one takes a look at the popular IHRA definition and some of the First Amendment effects, and the polarization around it all. TRANSCRIPT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aTsnmSkMOa7dA2FbV8zTKQgv76e-CkvpGf7z2UdyZfg/edit?usp=sharinghttps://www.holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitions-charters/working-definition-antisemitismhttps://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/DOE.OCR_.pdfhttps://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Standing-up-for-Jewish-students-325648https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/01/government-crack-down-anti-semitism-college-campuses-000272/https://www.aaup.org...2021-04-1525 min
Haymarket Books LiveThe Neoliberal University: How to Defend Education, Programs, and Jobs (11-23-20)A conversation about the struggle against neoliberalism in higher education with leading voices from the front lines.
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Higher education has been transformed over the last several decades. State funding has been dramatically reduced, tuition fees have exponentially increased, tenure track jobs have been replaced with adjuncts and graduate students, and staff have laid off and those that remain forced to work longer and harder for less,
The pandemic and recession have triggered an enormous crisis in this neoliberal model of higher education, putting not only jobs but entire institutions in jeopardy. This panel, organized by Spectre Journal, will address how faculty, staff and graduate stud...2021-03-041h 36
Your Voice, Your PowerA Feminist Dictionaryfem-i-nist: noun 1. A person who believes in equality between the genders 2. A person who believes in equal opportunities for women
Feminism is simply about equality, but you also need to understand what feminists fight against, the history of feminism, and more. In this episode, I'm going to talk about some terms like patriarchy, mansplaining, and intersectionality so you can better understand feminism.
If you're enjoying this podcast, be sure to subscribe and share it with your friends and family. If you want to let me know what you think of the podcast, send in a voice message at anchor.fm/vi...2021-02-2212 min
McKissick Health PodcastIntellectual Identity Formation with Beatrice J. AdamsINTELLECTUAL HEALTH. In this episode, doctoral candidate Beatrice Adams joins us to discuss the challenges of embracing your identity as an intellectual, loneliness, and the need for student-focused advocacy among advising faculty. Follow Beatrice on Twitter and InstagramFind out more about Rise Up NewarkAre you seeking employment in the academy? Check out this resource on compensation rates: https://www.aaup.org/2019-20-faculty-compensation-survey-resultsFind out more about the 8 Dimensions of Wellness.Recommended book: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisThe McKissick Health Podcast...2021-02-0144 min
Revolution or BustEp523 The Necroliberal University: COVID-19, racial violence, and the management of deathThe Necroliberal University: COVID-19, racial violence, and the management of death
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The NAB Project PodcastNAB Podcast: Henry Reichman on Academic FreedomAs protests spread across the US as a rebellion against police brutality, white supremacy, systematic racism, and fundamentally unjust systems, the freedom of persons of letters, teachers, scholars, students, staff, and other higher education professionals, is all the more essential in order to build toward systemic change in the United States.
In order to address this essential need, on today’s episode we speak with Henry Reichman, Chair of the American Association of University Professor’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. He is one of today’s leading voices defending a broad vision of tenure as the...2020-07-271h 28
WRSU Newsknightbeat 4-29-20Joey Bloch talks to KISS-FM Seattle morning show host and WRSU alum Carla Marie about how the initial epicenter of Coronavirus is looking to rebound and what she's had to do to adapt in the midst of the pandemic. Caleb Kuberiet weighs in on New Jersey reopening golf courses, Carla Marie's latest activities, Dr. Fauci's prediction about a second wave among other topics. Joey discusses reopening the state as well as mitigation efforts with NJ Dept. of Health Medical Director of Communicable Disease Services Dr. Edward Lifshitz. Chris Tsakonas speaks with Rutgers AAUP-AFT President Todd Wolfson about professors are...2020-06-181h 12
Conter RadioConter vs Corona Lecture 3 - Deepa Kumar on Capitalism, Racism & IslamophobiaWhat is the relationship between racism and capitalism? How does Western imperialism impact racism, at the levels of the state and in everyday life? The left often talk about racism as a tool to divide a multiethnic working class. But can this explain the sheer pervasiveness and depth of racism in society? Professor Deepa Kumar discusses the dynamics of contemporary racism, offering tools for activists to understand how it works, and how to fight it.
Bio: Deepa Kumar is a professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, where she is also the president of the lecturers union, AFT-AAUP...2020-05-231h 09
Labor VisionLabor Vision TV COVID-19 Crisis With Jay Walsh, American Association Of University ProfessorsLabor Vision's Erica Hammond interviews URI AAUP Executive Director Jay Walsh about his union's response to the COVID-19 crisis. http://www.uriaaup.org/
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The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSArm in Arm, Stronger Together: Labor Organizing on College CampusesThis episode of the Freedom Plow podcast looks at labor organizing on college campuses such as unionization and collective bargaining; struggles for better wages and social benefits; and campaigns against privatization. These battles have been propelled by campus workers (faculty, staff, graduate students) affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, Communication Workers of America, United Autoworkers, Service Employees International Union, Unite HERE, and other unions. Our guests are Dr. Nikol Alexander-Floyd and Patrick Scott. Dr. Alexander-Floyd is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and an Associate Member of the Political Science Graduate Faculty at Ru...2020-03-3152 min
1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast1869, Ep. 85 with Mellon Diversity Fellow Alexis SiemonWe're hiring for our next Mellon Diversity Fellow!
Please apply at the Working at Cornell website:
https://cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerPage/job/Ithaca-Main-Campus/Mellon-Diversity-Fellow----Acquisitions-Assistant_WDR-00022497-1
The deadline for applications is March 14, 2020, so act now!
Alexis's contact information can be found here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/contact/acquisitions/
and other current Mellon Fellows can be found at this link:
http://www.aupresses.org/about-aaup/board-of-directors/presidential-talks-archive/1776-conrad-20192020-02-1318 min
Think About ItFree Speech 68: Henry Reichman--Can Professors Get Fired for a Tweet?Should professors be held accountable for speech they make off-campus, on-line, and apart from their professional role in the university? Does academic freedom mean freedom of speech and what are the differences? I spoke with Professor Henry Reichman, who has served as Vice President of the American Association of University Professor, an organization that defends academic freedom. Reichman has chaired the AAUP's Committee on Academic Freedom and just published The Future of Academic Freedom.Uli Baer teaches literature and photography as University Professor at New York University. A recipient of Guggenheim, Getty and Humboldt awards, in addition t...2020-01-231h 06Labor VisionLabor Vision: Working Women in Leadership and URI AAUPIn the first half of the program, Stephanie Mandeville from NEARI and Kathy McElroy of SEIU Local 580 sit down with Erica Hammond for the "Women in Leadership," program of our Women at Work series, talking briefly about their unions, who they represent, the role they play, and any specific issues or goals they are working to achieve. Then they will close with tips for women in labor interested in taking on leadership roles.
And in the second part of the show, Jay Walsh from the American Association of University Professors at URI, will sit down with Erica...2020-01-1930 min
Core of the Matter"Our Working Conditions are Students' Learning Conditions": Union Organizing with Rutgers AAUP-AFTJames Boyle speaks with three representatives from the Rutgers chapter of American Association of University Professors and American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT): Physics professor Troy Shinbrot, journalism and media studies professor Teresa Politano, and graduate assistant Soili Smith. The three discussed different structural issues at Rutgers that are affecting many faculty members, including the university's increasing exploitation of a contingent labor force in the form part-time lecturers, lack of diversity among faculty, unequal access to healthcare and benefits (especially for PTLs and TAs/GAs), and the over-funding of the athletics department at the expense of academics. In addition, they...2019-06-2956 min