When Night Falls at School, Should Darwin Go Home?
The return of an adult-education class in the Northport school district teaching creationism may provoke litigation.
(Via NYT > Education.)
Education
More on Creation in School…sort of.
College Presidents Attack Proposed Faculty Boycott of IsraeliAcademics
I know many in the biblioblogging world have been following this story. Today and ad came out in the NY Times with the signatures of over 300 presidents, including the presidents of my past and current institutions.
The statement is on the American Jewish Committee’s website and reads, in part,
August 8, 2007 – New York – College and university presidents across the United States are signing on to a statement by Columbia University President Lee Bollinger denouncing the decision by the union representing British academics to promote a boycott of Israeli educational institutions….
The appeal to U.S. college and university presidents to follow Bollinger’s example came from eight of their colleagues: Jehuda Reinharz, president, Brandeis University; Robert J. Birgeneau, chancellor, University of California, Berkeley; Richard Herman, chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Donna E. Shalala, president, University of Miami; Henry S. Bienen, president, Northwestern University; Graham B. Spanier, Pennsylvania State University; Lawrence S. Bacow, president, Tufts University; M. Lee Pelton, Willamette; and, Harold Shapiro, president emeritus, Princeton University.
For more, see the Chronicle’s article.
College Presidents Attack Proposed Faculty Boycott of Israeli Academics – Chronicle.com
More than 300 presidents of American colleges and universities have signed a statement assailing a proposal by Britain’s leading faculty union to consider a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The statement, which was written by Columbia University’s president, Lee C. Bollinger and ran as an advertisment in Wednesday’s New York Times, follows widespread criticism since the University and College Union passed a resolution in May calling for the group to debate whether to refuse to work with Israeli academics over the country’s Palestinian policies. Last week a group called Scholars for Peace in the Middle East said it had gathered 10,000 signatures on an online petition opposing the faculty union’s proposal. —Andrew Mytelka
(Via The Chronicle of Higher Education.)
Plan Your Biblical Studies Carnival Reading Now!
Tyler has posted the list for the next nine months worth of BSC. Be sure to send your nominations to Claude Mariottini for August and note that I am hosting January!
Biblical Studies Carnival Update and Reminder
I wanted to thank everyone who volunteered to host a future Biblical Studies Carnival. I now have hosts scheduled into the new year. Here is a list of upcoming hosts:
- Biblical Studies Carnival XX (Claude Mariottini, Dr. Claude Mariottini – Professor of Old Testament – August 2007)
- Biblical Studies Carnival XXI (Duane Smith, Abnormal Interests – September 2007)
- Biblical Studies Carnival XXII (Tim Bulkeley, Sansblogue – October 2007)
- Biblical Studies Carnival XXIII (John Hobbins, Ancient Hebrew Poetry – November 2007)
- Biblical Studies Carnival XXIV (James M. Darlack, Old in the New – December 2007)
- Biblical Studies Carnival XXV (Christian Brady, Targuman – January 2008)
- Biblical Studies Carnival – Best of 2007 (Tyler F. Williams, Codex: Biblical Studies Blogspot - January 2008)
- Biblical Studies Carnival XXVI (Kevin Edgecomb, Biblicalia – February 2008)
- Biblical Studies Carnival XXVII (Kevin Wilson, Blue Cord – March 2008)
- Biblical Studies Carnival XXVIII (Chris Weimer, Thoughts on Antiquity – April 2008)
As you can see from the list, I put myself in to do a “Best of 2007″ post in the new year (I quite liked writing that up last January). Also, Claude Mariottini will be hosting the next Biblical Studies Carnival at his eponymous blog in the first week of August 2007. I encourage you to submit a post today! This can be one of your own posts or you can nominate a post written by someone else — don’t forget that the post needs to fit into the general category of academic biblical studies and cognate areas and needs to have been written sometime in June 2007.
You can submit/nominate posts via the submission form at BlogCarnival.com or you may email them to biblical_studies_carnival AT hotmail DOT com.
For more information, consult the Biblical Studies Carnival Homepage.
(Via Codex: Biblical Studies Blogspot.)
Honors Around the Big Ten
We had a great all-day meeting with our colleagues from the CIC. Many are doing very exciting things and we picked up a lot of great ideas. Each program is actually quite different, but we all face similar issues and have similar concerns and I learned much yesterday.
It was also encouraging to hear that in many ways we have been and are leading the way. For example, it is only in the last few years that several of the schools have begun to move towards a university-wide honors program and some are still not yet at that point. It was 1985 when the Penn State University Scholars Program was established across all academic units. I was reminded yet again of what a great program I am privileged to lead.
I have to share with you as well that these were wonderful colleagues. Everyone was very welcoming and friendly. It was a great, cordial exchange of ideas. We will be at Purdue next year and SHC-PSU will host in 2009!
(Now, to make my way back to State College. Hopefully with my luggage!)
On the Road @ CIC
Today I am in Chicago meeting Honors Deans and Dirctors from the other CIC schools. What is CIC? Good question. It is the Big 10 + University of ILL Chicago. So, 12 schools in total because of course “the Big 10″ is really 11 schools.
CIC: Committee on Institutional Cooperation – About CIC
ABOUT CICThe CIC is a consortium of 12 research universities, including the 11 members of the Big Ten Conference and the University of Chicago. With campuses in 8 states, CIC universities enroll more than 300,000 undergraduates and 76,000 graduate students, and employ some 33,000 full-time faculty and 139,000 full-time staff. The CIC is guided by the Provosts of the member universities
