Check it out: the AAUP is investigating the decision to close programs at SUNY Albany. More power to them!
I look forward to the investigating committee's report. There are a lot of thorny issues involved with the role of faculty and governance in decisions to shrink rather than grow a university that are very difficult to get a handle on. Here's hoping the AAUP can make their very useful Red Book even more relevant today by identifying some principles and practices governance leaders and bodies can use--as well as things administrators should endeavor to avoid or face censure.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
The AAUP Gets It: Saving Public Higher Education
Check out the AAUP's defense of public employees, collective bargaining, and public higher education. And get involved!
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Groundhog Day Symbolism
Yeesh, reading about the new Governor's proposals for the NYS budget and for SUNY and CUNY, along with the responses from the usual suspects, make me wonder if I'm in Groundhog Day the movie or if the huge winter storm western NY seems mostly to have weathered with minimal disruptions is a better indicator of where the state and its public higher education systems are headed.
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