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A Return to Educational Apartheid? Critical Examinations of Race, Schools, and Segregation.

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Critical Education has just published its latest issue at http://m1.cust.educ.ubc.ca/journal/index.php/criticaled. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.

This issue launches the Critical Education article series A Return to Educational Apartheid? Critical Examinations of Race, Schools, and Segregation, edited by Adam Renner and Doug Selwyn.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,

Sandra Mathison, Co-Editor
E. Wayne Ross, Co-Editor
Critical Education
University of British Columbia
wayne.ross@ubc.ca

Critical Education
Vol 1, No 7 (2010)
Table of Contents
http://m1.cust.educ.ubc.ca/journal/index.php/criticaled/issue/view/18

Articles
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A Return to Educational Apartheid?
Adam Renner, Doug Selwyn

A Separate Education: The Segregation of American Students and Teachers
Erica Frankenberg, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley

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Texas A&M System Will Rate Professors Based on Their Bottom-Line Value

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The Chronicle: Texas A&M System Will Rate Professors Based on Their Bottom-Line Value

The Texas A&M University System is moving ahead with a controversial method of evaluating how much professors are worth, based on their salaries, how much research money they bring in, and how much money they generate from teaching, The Bryan-College Station Eagle reports.

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‘Activist’ UCSD professor facing unusual scrutiny

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San Diego Union-Tribune: ‘Activist’ UCSD professor facing unusual scrutiny

UCSD Professor Ricardo Dominguez works in the field of electronic civil disobedience, and has become the target of two investigations related to his work, including scrutiny from three conservative congressmen from San Diego County who question his work helping illegal border crossers find water stations in the desert.

UCSD professor Ricardo Dominguez is facing unusual scrutiny from campus police and auditors for his involvement in two divisive projects — one that helps migrants find water stored along the border and another that disrupted the UC president’s Web site through a virtual sit-in.

Dominguez, 50, is a self-described activist and new media artist who is accustomed to stirring up controversy. But he said he’s troubled that his tenured status may be revoked for work that promotes his academic specialty of electronic civil disobedience.

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The Worst Salary Year for Faculty

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Inside Higher Ed: The Worst Salary Year

The average salary of a full-time faculty member in 2009-10 is only 1.2 percent higher than it was a year ago, the lowest year-to-year change in the 50 years that salary data have been collected by the American Association of University Professors. The association released its annual survey of faculty salaries today.

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First Israeli Arab woman appointed full professor at Tel Aviv University

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Haaretz: First Israeli Arab woman appointed full professor at Tel Aviv University

A 54-year-old education expert at Tel Aviv University has become the first Israeli Arab woman in the country to be appointed a full professor.

“It’s a real breakthrough,” Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija said of her appointment yesterday. “First of all, I am proud of myself for this personal accomplishment. But I believe I won’t be the last – more and more Arab women are entering the higher education system in a variety of fields.”

As of 2007, there were 33 Arab full professors employed in Israeli research universities – all of them men, according to a master’s thesis written by former Open University of Israel graduate student Iris Zarini.

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Charging That His College Undervalues Teaching, a Professor Strikes Back

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The Chronicle: Charging That His College Undervalues Teaching, a Professor Strikes Back

Last October, Madhukar Vable said farewell to two teaching prizes that he had won a decade earlier. He packed the plaques in envelopes and shipped them back to the university and state offices that had awarded them.

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U of Alabama Huntsville Campus Fires Amy Bishop

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The Chronicle: Huntsville Campus Fires Amy Bishop

The University of Alabama at Huntsville confirmed on Wednesday that it had fired Amy Bishop, the biology professor who is accused of killing three co-workers and injuring three others in a departmental meeting last month, The Decatur Daily reported. Previously, the university had said Ms. Bishop was suspended without pay. Ms. Bishop, who is in jail awaiting a preliminary hearing on charges of capital murder and attempted murder, received the termination letter on February 26. Her firing was made retroactive to February 12, the day of the shooting.

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New Jersey: LAW AND DISORDER: County Sheriff interrupts class

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The College Voice: LAW AND DISORDER: County Sheriff interrupts class
Confrontation erupts between sheriff and professor during class

Mercer County Sheriff Kevin C. Larkin and what appeared to be a female aide interrupted a State and Local Politics Class (POL 102) held in MS 205, at Mercer’s West Windsor Campus on February 1.

Associate Professor Michael Glass was conducting a discussion of what changes students would propose to the state budget to avoid the expected $2 billion shortfall. Some students suggested cutting the salaries of what they felt were overpayed state administrators.

The issue of state employees who “double dip” into state pension plans was raised during the class. Students asked Prof. Glass for a local example. At that point, Prof. Glass provided examples of several law enforcement officers, including Sheriff Larkin, who collects a Police and Fire Retirement System Pension as well as a government salary.

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Time Crunch for Female Scientists: They Do More Housework Than Men

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The Chronicle: Time Crunch for Female Scientists: They Do More Housework Than Men

When the biologist Carol W. Greider received a call from Stockholm last fall telling her she had won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, she wasn’t working in her lab at the Johns Hopkins University. The professor of molecular biology and genetics was at home, folding laundry.

Ms. Greider does many of the household chores, but she isn’t alone. A number of her female colleagues also do more around the house than their male partners.

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Faculties Are Liberal Because Conservatives Don’t Seek Academic Careers, Study Finds

Posted on January 18, 2010 by | Comments Off on Faculties Are Liberal Because Conservatives Don’t Seek Academic Careers, Study Finds

The New York Times: Professor Is a Label That Leans to the Left

The overwhelmingly liberal tilt of university professors has been explained by everything from outright bias to higher I.Q. scores. Now new research suggests that critics may have been asking the wrong question. Instead of looking at why most professors are liberal, they should ask why so many liberals — and so few conservatives — want to be professors.

Inside Higher Ed:New View of Faculty Liberalism/Why are professors liberal?

That question has led to many heated debates, particularly in recent years, over charges from some on the right that faculty members somehow discriminate against those who don’t share a common political agenda with the left. A new paper attempts to shift the debate in a new direction. This study argues that certain characteristics of professors — related to education and religion, among other factors — explain a significant portion of the liberalism of faculty members relative to the American public at large.

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Outsourcing push roils Boston College

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The Boston Globe: Outsourcing push roils BC

Many students, faculty join workers fighting cost-cutting proposal

Custodians, groundskeepers, and other workers at Boston College have long felt a part of the BC family. When employees reach their 25th anniversary, maintenance staff and professors alike are treated to an elegant banquet honoring their longtime service and given a commemorative clock. Workers’ children, if qualified to gain admission, receive free tuition.

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Tehran Students Say Professor Killed in Bombing Was Opponent of Regime

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The Chronicle: Tehran Students Say Professor Killed in Bombing Was Opponent of Regime

A University of Tehran professor who was killed in a bomb blast outside his home in the Iranian capital this morning was an outspoken supporter of the opposition politician Mir Hossein Moussavi who had encouraged students in their recent antigovernment protests, a student at the university said in an e-mail message from Tehran.

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‘We’ll Work for Free,’ Say Retired Professors, but Colleges Struggle With How to Use Them

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The Chronicle: ‘We’ll Work for Free,’ Say Retired Professors, but Colleges Struggle With How to Use Them

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, some retired professors wanted to do their part to help the university weather budget cuts that would have reduced the number of instructors in classrooms, among other things. Early this year, they offered to come back and teach, write grants, and do other work—free of charge.

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Protecting a Punished Professor

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Inside Higher Ed: Protecting a Punished Professor

When most of Saint Vincent College’s tenured faculty members voted last year to criticize President James Towey’s management of the Benedictine college, most professors were so nervous about retribution that few were willing to discuss their concerns in public. The Rev. Mark Gruber was an exception, and he may be paying a price for that outspokenness now.

The Benedictine monk and professor of anthropology has been stripped of his teaching duties and barred from the college and from all interaction with students, punished amid accusations of sexual misconduct that were initiated last summer by Towey and the archabbot at the affiliated Saint Vincent Seminary. Towey and Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki called state police to Saint Vincent last summer to investigate charges that Father Mark had downloaded child pornography onto a campus computer — allegations that the police deemed to be unfounded, because they found no images on the computer of men under the age of 18, and because the computer was in a common area and many people had access to it.

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Iranian-American Faces New Spying Charge

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The New York Times: Iranian-American Faces New Spying Charge

TORONTO — An Iranian-American scholar, Kian Tajbakhsh, already serving a 15-year prison sentence for spying, is facing a new charge of spying, a family member said Wednesday.

Mr. Tajbakhsh told his wife during a visit at Evin prison in Tehran that he was taken before the Revolutionary Court on Monday, where a judge read new charges against him of “spying for the George Soros foundation,” a reference to the Open Society Institute, a pro-democracy group founded by Mr. Soros, a prominent financier and philanthropist. The accusation was brought by the intelligence section of the Revolutionary Guards, said the family member, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of complicating the case.

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Williams fires accused professor

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Berkshire Eagle: Williams fires accused professor

WILLIAMSTOWN — A Williams College visiting professor, who pleaded guilty to charges of fraud in federal court last week, has been terminated from the college.

In a letter to the Williams College community, Interim President William Wagner said Bernard Moore’s employment with the college ended as of Monday.

He further stated, “We have found no evidence of serious misuse on his part of college resources.”

Moore, 51, whose real name is Ernest B. Moore, was the college’s W. Ford Schumann ‘50 visiting assistant professor in Democratic Studies, and was in his second year at Williams College.

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Zionist Group in Israel Urges Students to Report ‘Subversive’ Professors

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The Chronicle: Zionist Group in Israel Urges Students to Report ‘Subversive’ Professors

Left-right tensions are rising on Israeli campuses over the complex legacy of Zionist ideology and the place of Zionism in Israeli society, with a call for students at one university to report on “Thought Police” professors, a campaign that is being likened to “McCarthyite” tactics in the United States.

The tensions pit radical academics, who are being accused of pursuing a political agenda and silencing pro-Zionist views, against Zionist groups, accused of a “witchhunt” against professors who reject the mainstream Israeli narrative.

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News Analysis: Converting Adjuncts to the Tenure Track Is More Easily Discussed Than Done

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The Chronicle: News Analysis: Converting Adjuncts to the Tenure Track Is More Easily Discussed Than Done

By Audrey Williams June

The rationale behind the American Association of University Professors’ recent report urging colleges to convert adjunct faculty members to the tenure track is simple: The faculty is falling apart. The time to do something about it is now.

It’s a clarion call that scholarly associations, unions, lawmakers, and even some administrators have sounded for years, all the while pushing in various ways to reverse a trend that threatens to turn the professoriate into an oasis of faculty members with tenure surrounded by adjuncts with poor pay, no academic freedom, and no job security.

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FIJI-AUSTRALIA: Academic deported for criticisms

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World University News: FIJI-AUSTRALIA: Academic deported for criticisms

An Australian National University academic Professor Brij Lal was arrested and then deported from Fiji last Thursday after criticising the military regime during media interviews. Lal teaches at the ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific and, although born in Fiji, he has Australian citizenship, is an expert on Fiji politics and helped draft the country’s constitution in 1997.

He was arrested at his home in Fiji’s capital Suva, held for an hour and interrogated then told to leave the country within 24 hours “or else”. Lal had been living in Suva since August and was writing a book on the island nation’s poor.

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Idaho State U professor fired despite faculty vote

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The Olympian: ISU professor fired despite faculty vote

POCATELLO, Idaho – An Idaho State University engineering professor who was suspended in August says he has been fired, despite backing from a faculty appeals board.

The Idaho State Journal reports Habib Sadid confirmed Friday that university president Arthur Vailas had terminated his employment.

In a statement, Vailas said his decision was in the best interests of the institution.

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