Tag Archives: activism

‘Activist’ UCSD professor facing unusual scrutiny

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.

Surge in Adjunct Activism Is Spurred by Bad Economy and Hungry Unions

The Chronicle: Surge in Adjunct Activism Is Spurred by Bad Economy and Hungry Unions

Institutions like Western Michigan University, Montana State University, and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art are home to new adjunct unions. In Massachusetts a group of part-time faculty members sued the state on behalf of adjuncts who don’t get health insurance at community colleges. And the part-timers’ union at Rhode Island College has ratified the first contract for adjunct faculty members in the state.

Denied a Discussion at a Reunion, a Macalester College Alumni Group Plans a Sit-In

The Chronicle: Denied a Discussion at a Reunion, a Macalester College Alumni Group Plans a Sit-In

A group of Macalester College alumni that has accused the institution, in St. Paul, of failing to expose students to a broad range of political views says it will hold an “old-fashioned” 1960s-style sit-in on the campus on Saturday because the college has refused to allow the group…

The Academic Workforce Advocacy Kit

MLA: The Academic Workforce Advocacy Kit brings together a set of reports and guidelines on faculty workload and staffing norms developed by the association since the 1990s. Armed with these facts and figures, buttressed by goals and guidelines endorsed by the largest professional association of scholars in the country, we can begin to do the hard work of describing the situation in our own institutions; comparing it with the situation on the national level; confronting administrations with the facts, needs, and relevant standards; and educating the public at the local and state level.
—Catherine Porter, Summer 2009 MLA Newsletter

Crusader Against ‘Ladies’ Nights’ Is Blocked at Door in Legal Challenge to Women’s Studies

The Chronicle News Blog: Crusader Against ‘Ladies’ Nights’ Is Blocked at Door in Legal Challenge to Women’s Studies

Roy Den Hollander, a men’s-rights advocate who first made a name for himself by challenging the “ladies’ nights” promotions of New York bars, has bumped up against a velvet rope in his effort to get the courts to block federal and state money from going to colleges that offer programs in women’s studies.

Animal-Rights Activists Claim Responsibility for Arson of UCLA Professor’s Car

The Chronicle News Blog: Animal-Rights Activists Claim Responsibility for Arson of UCLA Professor’s Car

The FBI is investigating yet another attack on a university researcher involved in animal experimentation.

A car was burned on Saturday outside the home of the researcher, an associate professor of behavioral neuroscience at the University of California at Los Angeles, an FBI spokesman said. No one was physically injured in the attack, the spokesman said.

A group called the Animal Liberation Front posted a message on its Web site from an entity calling itself the Animal Liberation Brigade claiming responsibility for the arson attack. The statement said the professor “addicts monkeys to methamphetamines and other street drugs” and promised future attacks that cause “a lot more damage than to your property” if the experimentation continues.

Iowa Professors Mobilize Against Measure on Teaching Alternatives to Evolution

The Chronicle: Iowa Professors Mobilize Against Measure on Teaching Alternatives to Evolution

More than 200 faculty members at 20 Iowa colleges have signed a statement opposing a proposed state law that would give instructors at public colleges and schools a legal right to teach alternatives to evolution.