BY MARTIN KICH Business Insider reports: Many citizens and businesses around China have reportedly been forbidden to celebrate or put up decorations for Christmas this year. Local authorities appea…
Month: December 2018
Were the 2018 Midterm Results Largely Determined by Early July 2017?
BY MARTIN KICH As Big Data begins to define our obsessive discussion of politics and our universities respond to the demand for specialists by developing graduate programs in the discipline, it is …
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Request for Short Letters of Support from UnKoch My Campus
BY MARTIN KICH Students and faculty have been clear: George Mason University must begin reviewing all of their future donor agreements for conflicts of interest and make them more transparent to th…
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Faculty Unions Do Have Allies in Other Unions
BY MARTIN KICH In a previous post, I showed in photos the large turnout of Wright State AAUP members at the October meeting of our board of Trustees. I have also posted the remarks made by two of o…
OCAAUP 2018 Annual Meeting Resolution 3: Instruction First
BY MARTIN KICH This resolution was passed unanimously by the chapter leaders and members attending this year’s annual meeting in the Columbus suburb of Westerville. Whereas the primary mission of O…
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Top News Photos of 2018 with a Link to Education
BY MARTIN KICH The Atlantic has released its annual compilation of the top 25 news photos. (Over three days, they are following up with three sets of 25 other photos highlighting news stories from …
Higher Ed Is Biased against Men
BY MARTIN KICH So writes Richard Vedder, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in an article for Forbes. What follows is the opening paragraph, which is essentially an overview of the…
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Sherrod Brown’s Platform Positions of Higher Education
BY MARTIN KICH Early last summer, Sherrod Brown’s senatorial campaign contacted the leadership of the Ohio Conference about what he could provide to us on his positions. The OCAAUP tries to limit i…
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