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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024

In Defense of the Right to Free Speech and Peaceful Protest on University Campuses 

AAUP Bucknell,  AAUP national, and dozens of chapters across the country defend the right to free speech and peaceful protest on university campuses, including Bucknell Students for Justice in Palestine and other organizations on Bucknell’s campus. We condemn the militarized response by institutional leaders to these activities, and we vehemently oppose the politically motivated assault on higher education.  Our colleges and universities are places of free and open expression, inquiry, and debate. Even in sharp disagreement, our goal is communication in service of learning and understanding. The critical evaluation of different points of view and the questioning of even the most deeply held beliefs […]

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Posted on May 2, 2024

Monday, February 26th, 2024

Israel-Palestine Campus Events and Call for Ceasefire

On Thursday February 1st, The MLK Week Committee and Bucknell’s Office of Religious and Spiritual Life co-sponsored a discussion session titled, “Why Is the Conversation So Hard? Islamophobia, Antisemitism and Israel-Palestine Dialogue”. On Tuesday February 13th, the Division of Equity & Inclusive Excellence hosted two speakers from Parents Circle. Ofer Lior, an Israeli who had lost his brother and Arab Aramin, a Palestinian who had lost his sister. It is somewhat heartening that campus events have focused on open dialogue and shared humanity, which cannot be taken for granted in a national culture that seeks to undermine the unencumbered pursuit […]

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Posted on February 26, 2024

Wednesday, September 13th, 2023

Why Does Bucknell Have So Few Low-Income Students?

Bucknell was mentioned in the New York Times this week but not in a very flattering light. In the conversation around the Supreme Court decision striking down race-based affirmative action, the question of class has been raised again and again. This week the New York Times published its Student Access Ranking (just one week before the expected release of the infamous U.S. News and World Report), which offers an analysis of 250 colleges and universities by percentage of the student body who are Pell Grant recipients, their chosen proxy for class. The ranking is attached to the New York Times […]

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Posted on September 13, 2023

Friday, July 21st, 2023

Bucknell after “Students for Fair Admission”

The SCOTUS decision to end race-based affirmative action in “Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard” and “Students for Fair Admission v. UNC” delivers on a long held desire of the political right (check out the AAUP’s many amicus briefs on cases on this topic). Despite the partisan framing of the debate, opinion polling also shows that race-based affirmative action was unpopular with a majority of Americans. What both the Supreme Court decision and the opinion polls miss is the systemic “affirmative action” for wealthy students, a population that skews white. What some people call “white affirmative action” will remain despite […]

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Posted on July 21, 2023

Monday, July 10th, 2023

Save SoJo Res College

Many faculty will have been following the administration’s curious decision to shut down (or rather “pause,” in the words of Interim Provost Margot Vigeant) the Social Justice Residential College for 2023-24. We encourage everyone working at Bucknell, not just faculty, to lend an ear to this affair as it says a lot about the values of the institution. Check out the Save SoJo website and read through the many, many, many student testimonials about the importance of this learning-living space, especially for minoritized students.

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Posted on July 10, 2023

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