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...Ken Shulman; George Katsiaficas © 1998 Caucus for a New Political Science 1998 New Political Science, Volume 20, Number 4, 1998 489 An Open Letter to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Attention: Malcolm Rogers, Director The Board of Trustees You really should give them back. Those magnificent...

... social programs to non-state—in this case private, profitseeking—actors. In consumer bankruptcy, considerable authority is delegated to private trustees and private attorneys incentivized to work in their own interests and those of creditors, rather than prioritizing the possibility of a “fresh start...

... corporation under the control of a group of trustees from other large private corporations. In many respects the legal name makes the purpose apparent: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The school may teach the myth of popular sovereignty, but it practices the control of the few...

... these early instances of conflict between faculty, administrators, trustees, and conservative politicians as a history of"the development of academic freedom in the United States."s The truth is that the early "academic freedom" cases were actually successful acts of academic repression; while in the midst...

... with a responsible system of planning and management, rather than with ad hoc arrangements dependent upon the whims of deans, department chairmen, trustees and presidents." It is only reasonable, in Howe's estimation, that such a requirement be imposed, given the success to date of the corporate experience...

... that "something like a general strike had broken out" on the Boston University campus. The faculty union, representing about 850 full-time professors, had 80 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE been on strike since April 5 when the University trustees suddenly refused to ratify a contract that the administration had negotiated...

... merit increases from faculty who has spoken out against him or who have been active in the union. The record indicates that administrators who disagree with him do not last long (of the ten deans who called for Silber's resignation in 1976, none remains in office). According to former Trustees (quoted...

... edition of this book, James O'Connor, The Fiscal Crisis (~f the State, with a new introduction by the author (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2002). 11 For purposes of this analysis, federal officials, governors, state legislators, boards of trustees, system offices, and other high-ranking higher...

... tradition of liberal historiography, which portrays conflicts between faculty and corporate trustees, senior administrators, and political elites as a history of "the development of academic freedom in the United States."s Nocella et al. call it what is: academic repression. The editors define academic...

...) in Greeley, Colorado?2 In 2011, UNCO's Board of Trustees(BOn unanimously voted to allow hydraulic fracturing operations near and under campus; in so doing, UNCO joined all major educational institutions in Greeley that had signed mineral leases, including Aims Community College and the largest school...

... into the academy than government agents, Congress, or state legislatures could ever to do in the past because they are able to monitor individual courses, syllabi, and faculty from within the classroom. These two mechanisms of repression are often linked to letter writing campaigns aimed at trustees and senior...

... for the purchase of TV and radio ads. Most ambitiously, Barnes envisions a global atmospheric trust which would set a global cap on carbon emissions and devise a formula to distribute carbon emission permits among nations. Barnes insists that "trustees should have secure tenure, and-like judgeslengthy terms...

... research. It is an example of how much community power, in Youngstown for instance, is dependant and intersects another community of power- Wall Street. Dahl's Who Governs would be a vastly different book if the Yale trustees sudden1y decided to close the school or move it to Taiwan. *Its address...

... different from those of a century earlier. Inmates spent endless hours in the fields, harvesting sugarcane and cotton. Stabbings were a daily occurrence. To save money, the penitentiary's all-white administration armed "trustee" inmates with rifles and allowed them to serve as guards. These inmate guards...

.... Academic self-governance: governing higher education using collegiate processes and academic merit as general principles. 3. Stakeholder guidance: governing higher education by goal setting from external representatives. The increasing influence of Boards of Trustees drawn from non-academic professions...

... be a vastly different book if the Yale trustees sudden1y decided to close the school or move it to Taiwan. *Its address in Youngstown is: Ecumenical Coalition, 263 West Federal Plaza, Youngstown, Ohio 44503, Phone: 216-744-3985; in New York: Ecumenical Coalition, 475 Riverside Dr., Rm. 1244K, New York, N.Y...

... the budget bills, or a regent/trustee who approves the university's contracts, will not agree with Barrow that it's all about the faculty rather than the students. The book is one-sided here in missing these aspects of higher education culture, which remain real, valuable, and not simply ideological...

..., it is worth emphasizing that Hauptmann’s reading is not paranoid. Rather, she provides evidence that the program came from John Foster Dulles in his role as chair of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees and was later supported by Dean Rusk. It was designed and implemented through multiple layers...

...-term migrant faculty, a discordance that will worsen if most boards of trustees have their way. But, at least in the US/ there are also significant differences in sensibilities between intellectuals formed in the 1960s and 1970s (an age that witnessed a democratization of higher education and upheaval...

... American historical anachronism of institutional governance resting with a lay board of trustees. This feature of governance dated to the religiously-affiliated institutions that defined higher education before the rise of the research university. By the early twentieth century the composition of boards...