Posts Tagged ‘academic freedom’
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
[A version of this post was sent to D:F/M Members Regarding the March 14 Faculty Meeting]
This rebuttal addresses comments of Colleagues Isabel Pinedo, Kelly Anderson, Larry Shore, Peter Parisi, Karen Hunter, Ricardo Miranda and Jay Roman at the last faculty meeting, especially the attack victimology embraced by several Colleagues and threats about censoring the WORD.
Peter Parisi and the Mets
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Tags: Academic Bullying, academic fraud, academic freedom, academic freedom violations, bigotry on college campuses, Isabel Pinedo, Jay Roman, Karen Hunter, Kelly Anderson, Larry Shore, news censorship, Peter Parisi, racism on college campuses, Ricardo Miranda
Posted in Blogroll, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, Journalism Education, Student Journalism, The Controversy Continues, The March 14 D:F/M Faculty Meeting | Comments Off
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
At the D:F/M faculty meeting today, irate Colleagues expressed plans to censor the WORD? They said they were upset that the department’s dirty linen was being exposed across the spectrum of the Internet.
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Tags: academic freedom, censorship, Civil Liberties, D:F/M, U.S. First Amendment
Posted in Blogroll, Civil Liberties/Journalism, Commentary, Ethics, It's Been One of Those Semesters, Journalism, Journalism Education, State of Journalism, The Black Press, The Controversy Continues | Comments Off
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
The WORD Blog (and maybe the WORD) plans to test the boundaries of: Academic Freedom. Free Speech. The First Amendment.
Tags: academic freedom, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, U.S. First Amendment
Posted in 2010 Tribeca Film Festival - the WORD, Blogroll, I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, Journalism Education, Not Easily Categorized, Photo Journalism | Comments Off
Friday, October 30th, 2009
If institutions of higher learning desire academic honesty, they must be institutions of obvious integrity, places where students, faculty, and administrators seek truth and wisdom and technical expertise in an environment marked by trust, honesty, respect, fairness, responsibility, and courage. Peg Hogan, Former President, The Center for Academic Integrity
“Bullying academic departments tend not to allow assistant professors to follow their own bliss, either in the classroom or in their research agendas. This is sometimes the very motive for the bullying: Many departments really don’t want anything or anyone new or innovative around. And scrutinizing other people’s work to belittle it is one of the pleasures of academic bullying.” Historiann.
“Lest we forget.”
Tags: Academic Bullying, academic freedom
Posted in Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera | Comments Off
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
So, what do students think about this? The question to be posed sometime March 18 on Hunter-L, the College’s main listserv for general info and communication for the Hunter community, this being this New York Times article. The Big Question to be put to the students: Should I reconsider my default grade, B?
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Tags: academic freedom, college grading, higher education, learning, New York Times
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Deconstructing a Snippet of the Minutes of the December, 2008, Faculty Meeting of the Department of Film and Media Studies
[What Really Goes on Behind Some Walls of the Academy]
Morris stated that he had unresolved issues with faculty. These details were written in his group emails to faculty. Roman responded that he will follow up any complaints 
made by Morris with the Ombudsman. — Shanti Thaku, the minutes of the December, 2008, faculty meeting.
At the meeting I’ve referred to as this first blip on the radar,  I revealed my contact with the New York Civil Liberties Union but didn’t reveal my contact with the National Writers Union, which had responded positively to my request for support.
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Tags: academic freedom, Academic Politics, Bob Stanley, BORG, First Amendment, grade appeals, Joel Zucker, Larry Shore, National Writers Union, NYCLU, Office Politics, SLAM, Student Press Law Center, Terminator
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Which Ones Want to Censor the WORD?
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012At the D:F/M faculty meeting today, irate Colleagues expressed plans to censor the WORD? They said they were upset that the department’s dirty linen was being exposed across the spectrum of the Internet.
(more…)
Tags: academic freedom, censorship, Civil Liberties, D:F/M, U.S. First Amendment
Posted in Blogroll, Civil Liberties/Journalism, Commentary, Ethics, It's Been One of Those Semesters, Journalism, Journalism Education, State of Journalism, The Black Press, The Controversy Continues | Comments Off