Prove participatory citizenship is still alive! Vote on the MLA resolution! Last 8 hours!

Please forgive me for being exceedingly tedious on the subject of the vote, which ends at midnight tonight. The bar of 10% of the membership that resolutions have to pass is a relatively new one, and arguably not a good one, given the general indifference (which those who proposed it probably were counting on). But it is still possible to prove…[Read more]

a bit more than 24 hours left to vote on the MLA resolution!

I apologize for possibly repeating myself. I’m writing to encourage people to vote on the Israel resolution (right of entry for Americans of Palestinian and Arab descent). I co-sponsored it, so obviously I believe it’s a good and fair and appropriate thing, but I think you will agree if you take a moment to look it over. Voting ends at midnight…[Read more]

Please forgive this graceless appeal. The Israel resolution (Right to Enter) that I co-sponsored with Dick Ohmann is now being voted on. I think it’s a moderate and necessary gesture of support for our Palestinian and Arab colleagues who, though US citizens, have been denied entry to the West Bank to teach, do research, lecture, or attend…[Read more]

New posts are up at http://ethosreview.org. Check out essays on the 75th anniversary of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and a new piece in our Graduate Student Labor series.

Do you have colleagues who lampoon students’ work on social media? Consider Jennifer Larson’s reflections on this increasingly common practice: (http://www.ethosreview.org/forum-intellectual-spaces-2/whose-text-is-it-anyway-lampooning-student-work-on-social-media/).

For those interested in unions and/or grad student labor:
http://www.ethosreview.org/forum-intellectual-spaces-2/the-state-of-the-graduate-student-union/

Check out Sarah George’s reflections on “Budget Cuts and the Shrinking University” at http://ethosreview.org