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Showing posts with label academic freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label academic freedom. Show all posts
Monday, July 20, 2026

Workplace mobbing researchers convene in Niagara

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The Third Niagara Conference on Workplace Mobbing  opened today, and I was privileged to participate in the opening session. I've been l...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Rescission of law dean offer prompts valid angst, but political ire over higher ed impunity is long time coming

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Waterman Hall, University of Arkansas Larry Miller via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 Legal academics is aflutter over the rescinding of an offer of t...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

From national TV to local school, suspension of dissenters evidences worrisome speech suppression

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Google Gemini CC0 Free speech is in danger in the United States, and two recent matters, one national and one local to me, are representativ...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Conference launches 'Journal of Workplace Mobbing'

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In July, I participated virtually in the second Niagara Conference on Workplace Mobbing , which launched the Journal of Workplace Mobbing . ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Roberts publishes critique of U.S. government in crisis, endures harassment after criticizing accreditor

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Professor Alasdair Roberts , a friend and colleague at UMass Amherst Public Policy, recently published a new article, " The Crisis of ...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Student Shieh shakes up Brown with DOGE-like query, but universities hold fast in defense of admin 'bloat'

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University Hall and Van Wyckle Gates at Brown University Robert Barnett via Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 A conservative student journalist who r...
Friday, April 18, 2025

Anti-mobbing scholars prepare for 2nd N.Y. conference; proposals due May 1; register for in-person by June 1

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Colleagues, higher ed students, researchers, and practitioners across disciplines: The 2025 Niagara Conference on Workplace Mobbing , July 2...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Mother of slain scholar publishes his account of academic workplace mobbing at UMass (Amherst)

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At the inaugural Niagara Conference on Workplace Mobbing at Niagara University last summer , easily the most moving and haunting presentati...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Niagara conference on workplace mobbing examines failure of academic freedom to prevent abuse

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NCWM participants at Niagara University in July © used with permission With colleagues from around the world, I participated, as chair of th...
Friday, August 2, 2024

'Faculty are the least important people on a campus,' but don't worry; administrators will be all right

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Adaptation of Joe Loong via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 A recent item in The Chronicle of Higher Education ( subscription ), excerpted by Paul Ca...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

High court construes tenure contract to constrain faculty salary cuts at Tufts medical school

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TUSM Arnold Wing, 2012, Boston John Phelan via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 Academic freedom won a rare court victory last week when the Mas...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Florida A&M moves to fire Latina law prof who spoke on public concern; Hispanic law students resist

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You may review and sign on to a letter of the FAMU Hispanic American Law Student Association opposing Reyes's termination here.   Prof. ...