What’s New with Academe?

This month’s newsletter offers a preview of selected articles from our forthcoming fall issue on the COVID-19 crisis in higher education. Follow the links below or visit https://www.aaup.org/academe to read a new series of reflections on faculty life during the pandemic and other highlights from Academe and the Academe Blog.

PANDEMIC REFLECTIONS

Care Is a Practice; Care Is Pedagogical

By Jesse Stommel

How can we be together online?

The House of Cards

By an adjunct faculty member in the Northeast
Will COVID-19 finally bring down a system that pairs the most overworked and least supported faculty members with the neediest students?

Change Can Come Swiftly When We Rally Together

By Matthew Boedy

How the Georgia AAUP conference fought for a mask mandate—and won.

Reflections from the Battle Lines

By Teena Chopra
Medical faculty members are fighting to keep our communities safe.

Black Women, Mutual Aid, and Union Organizing in the Time of COVID-19

By Donna Murch

The pandemic has lent new urgency to demands for a just future.

Moving beyond Crisis

By Michele Hardesty

How the Hampshire College AAUP chapter built solidarity and avoided faculty layoffs.

Owning the Fail

By a lecturer in Florida

Students have a right to be disappointed in our institutions.

FEATURES

The Necroliberal University
By Benjamin Balthaser and Bill V. Mullen
COVID-19, racial violence, and the management of death.

Liberal Education after the Pandemic
By James Buckwalter-Arias
A health emergency demands a new perspective on higher education.

BOOK REVIEW

A Worthy Primer on Free Speech
Henry Reichman reviews Suzanne Nossel's Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All.

CHAPTER PROFILE

United Academics of the University of Oregon

COLUMN

From the President: A Time of Reckoning

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Eight Actions to Reduce Racism in College Classrooms
By Shaun R. Harper and Charles H. F. Davis III
When professors are part of the problem.

FROM THE BLOG

Is the Managed Campus a Graveyard?
By Rachel Ida Buff

The Conflict over the Conflict
By Ernst Benjamin

Scholar Strike
By Anthea Butler and Kevin Gannon

Academic Freedom, Free Speech, and the Syllabus
By Marybeth Gasman

They Said They Were Sorry: Akron’s Administration Kicking Us at Our Lowest Moment
By Sue Ramlo

Racism, Policing, and Santa Clara University
By Danielle Fuentes Morgan

Why We Need Freedom of the Press on Campus Now More Than Ever
By John K. Wilson

Library Collections and Coronavirus Capitalism
By David Eifler and Margaret Phillips