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- [The next in our "15 Ways" series on the condition of higher education offers a reflection on the choice between furloughs and voluntary pay reductions.]Written by Joseph Valente (English)On January 20, our Interim Chancellor, Robert Easter, sent us all a message: “we are pleased to be able to offer... to our faculty and...
- [The next in our series on higher education, 15 Ways to Take Your Furlough/Voluntary Pay Cut, features the reflections of five members of the Graduate Employee’s Organization (GEO)]Written by Melinda Bernardo (Research Assistant and Ph.D. Student, Anthropology); Peter Odell Campbell (Teaching Assistant and Ph.D. Student,...
- To help set the mood for this month's symposium, MAD WORLD: Sex, Politics, Style and the 1960s, the Unit for Criticism has created a slideshow inspired by music and images from the 1960s as well as from Mad Men.The event will take place on Friday 2/19, beginning at 9:30 am and will conclude with a 9pm Dance Party at V. Picasso in...
- [Cary Nelson's contribution to the "15 Ways to Take Your Furlough/Voluntary Pay Cut" series on the condition of higher education is excerpted from the lecture he gave for the Unit for Criticism's January 25 colloquium, "Higher Education's Perfect Storm: What Can We Do?"]Written by Cary Nelson (English/President, AAUP)The...
- Written by Dianne Harris (Director, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and Professor of Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Art History, and History)As an architectural historian, I am a humanist who studies the history of human interactions with the built environment. As such, I’ve spent a fair amount of time...
- Detail from Leonardo's Codex Written by Sevinç Türkkan (Comparative Literature)When I first found out that translating literature is not considered academic work on many campuses across the USA, I was very surprised. Does that mean that in academic circles today, translation is considered merely as the...
- [On January 25 the Unit for Criticism hosted a colloquium, "Higher Education's Perfect Storm: What Can We Do?," featuring Cary Nelson, professor of English, president of the national AAUP, and author of the forthcoming book No University is...
- "Red Dress in F Minor" by Midori Furze[On January 20, 2010, Interim Chancellor/Provost Robert Easter announced a new Voluntary Pay Reduction program as an alternative to the mandatory furlough program announced...
- [On January 5, 2010, Interim President Stanley Ikenberry announced a four-day furlough for eligible academic professionals and faculty as a “short-term measure to conserve cash” during Spring 2010. The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory has commissioned...
- Dear Colleagues,I hope this email finds you warm and dry on a snowy January day in Champaign-Urbana (or wherever you are as you read these words). With furloughs recently announced for a wide swath of Illinois employees, and budgetary crises continuing at local, national, and global levels, I write in the hopes...
- Written by Chantal Nadeau (Gender & Women's Studies)What is the relationship between queer and the future? Between queer and its future? How do we define queer in relation to a future that would be outside of the matrix of heteronormativity and a certain vision/rendition of reproducibility? Or is it that queer always happens in an impalpable, unmarked present, yet one that clearly makes it a...