Fawlty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education

From The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/160410/faulty-towers-crisis-higher-education

AAUP Member Newsletter: The Media and Higher Education in Hard Times

Academe brings faculty the latest news and thought-provoking commentary.  

The May–June issue of Academe tackles the complex issues of media coverage of higher education, the public’s perception of academe, and the role that conservative think tanks and foundations play in both affecting media coverage of higher education and reconfiguring higher education itself.
Faculty members are losing a critical battle for the soul of America. And we’re losing it partly, but significantly, because we’ve lost the media, if we ever “had” them. We tend to denigrate them, and they don’t like us so much either. It gets worse. The media themselves are on life support, as newsrooms downsize. And are we to follow not long after? The metaphors comparing higher education to Detroit are proliferating.

Kushner, CUNY and Academic Freedom - NYTimes.com

Kushner, CUNY and Academic Freedom - NYTimes.com
Thoughtful comments from Stanley Fish on academic freedom.

Spring 2011 issue of the AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom

Whether by chance or by fate, the spring 2011 issue of the AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom has turned out to be rather timely.
At a moment when faculty unionization is paradoxically at once resurgent and under assault, Bill Lyne lays out rather clearly what its benefits can be for shared governance.
John Champagne and John Powell mount philosophical, political, and pedagogical critiques of the relentlessly expanding assessment movement (if essays arrive on the other side of that question, by the way, we would be happy to consider them).