2023 H-Net Teaching Conference
“Critical Conversations: Teaching and Creating Community in Difficult Times”
Discussions
2023 CFP for the annual conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association
2023 Call for Proposals
Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association
The Art and Science of Peace: Building Positive Peace in the Twenty-first Century
They’ve Been Scheming to Cut Tenure for Years. It’s Happening.
from The Chronicle of Higher Education ... (Article is behind a paywall.)
They’ve Been Scheming to Cut Tenure for Years. It’s Happening. We’re in the execution phase of the profession’s demise.
AI Generative Tool Usage Policies in Syllabi
Hi all,
I know a lot of folks are trying to figure out where AI generative tools (ChatGPT, MidJourney, Dall-E, etc) fit in their courses (or don't) and I know many schools haven't provided any guidance as we start another semester.
A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job.
Make no mistake about this, Dr. Lopez Prater lost her position because she was an adjunct, without job protection. The administration claims she wasn't fired. She simply wasn't re-hired for the next semester. Does one need a better example of "the Precarity"? She wasn't afforded the luxury of the necessary and thorough-going discussion of academic freedom that the incident that led to her dismissal requires -- within the academic community. She was on the outside looking in.
excerpt from After The Ivory Tower Falls by Will Bunch
This comes from Delanceyplace.com, which publishes excerpts from recent and not-so-recent books
College as unAmerican ...
AI and College Essays
Since many of us are going to be grading exams and essays these days, I thought it would be important for us to read and reflect on this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-ai-writing-college-student-...
What kinds of reasonable and realistic responses can we make to this phenomenon? If an AI can churn out C-grade essays in no time, what is to be done?
New School Adjuncts’ Push for Better Pay Drives Acrimonious Strike
As a strike by part-time faculty enters its third week, administrators, faculty and parents battle over the finances and future of an institution known for its left-leaning politics.
(This NYTimes article contains an interview with a New School adjunct on food stamps and Medicaid)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/nyregion/new-school-parsons-strike.html?action=click&mo...
Tenured Faculty are the 18% – What Will They Do for the 82?
This morning, around 48,000 academic workers at nine University of California campuses went on strike.
COCAL UPDATES, NOVEMBER 5, 2022 CORRECTED
A QUOTE TO REMEMBER:
Public schools are at the center of the manufactured breakdown of the fabric of everyday life. They are under attack not because they are failing, but because they are public. Henry Giroux
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