I just read in the
Chronicle about your blog - I wish I had thought of something like that here
before I stepped down as dean. I entered academic (sic) to contribute to 'a life of
the mind' and to be able to work in a just, inclusive, collaborative
environment. I have been fortunate to find that in several institutions but
here in ______ I have found an abusive, punitive, totally unprofessional
environment stemming from a socio-pathic provost & a co-dependent president.
I …am in several legal battles with the 'university' so a blog would work -
lawyers don't want me to have anything to do with institution except through
them & I've asked AAUP to investigate faculty interference & tenure
issues so don't want to mess that up.
Maybe faculty around the country are just expressing how sick and tired they are of phoney administrators and their "corporate models" of governance (forget the shared part).
At any rate, I had never heard of the “Streisand Effect” before I read it
in one of the comments on one of the several articles that have appeared about
the CSU since Patrick Cage issued his memo of “cease and desist” to us.
The "Streisand Effect":
Named after the American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, the Streisand Effect describes how efforts to suppress a juicy piece of online information can backfire and end up making things worse for the would-be censor. Ms Streisand inadvertently gave her name to the phenomenon in 2003, when she sued the California Coastal Records Project, which maintains an online photographic archive of almost the entire California coastline, on the grounds that its pictures included shots of her cliffside Malibu mansion, and thus invaded her privacy.
That raised hackles online…Ms Streisand… was scorned
for what was seen as a frivolous suit that was harmful to freedom of speech. As
the links proliferated, thousands of people saw the pictures of Ms Streisand's
house—far more than would otherwise ever have bothered to browse through the
CCRP's archives. By the time a judge eventually threw the suit out, Ms
Streisand's privacy had been far more thoroughly compromised than it would have
been had she and her lawyers left the CCRP alone.
The Economist explains: What is the Streisand effect? Apr 15th 2013, 23:50 by T.C.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/04/economist-explains-what-streisand-effect
"Chicago State University wants faculty blog
shut down"
By Juan
Perez Jr., Chicago Tribune reporter
7:23 a.m. CST, November 12, 2013
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-chicago-state-university-blog-20131112,0,1259026.story
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
"Chicago State U. Orders a Faculty Blog to Shut Down"
INSIDE HIGHER ED"ChicagoState vs. Faculty Blog"
November 12, 2013 by Scott Jaschik
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/11/12/chicago-state-tries-shut-down-faculty-blog#.UoJE9KxMXTw.email
Read more:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/11/12/chicago-state-tries-shut-down-faculty-blog#ixzz2kXbm9peL
AAUP ACADEME BLOG
"Chicago
State administration puts
foot in it again" by Hank Reichman
...“A thuggish effort…”
Chicago
State ’s demand that the
blog be shut down, and not simply that use of its trademarks cease, indicates
clearly that the administration’s intent is to silence a dissenting faculty
voice. The university’s letter is little
more than a thuggish effort to bully and frighten, with no legal or moral
justification. Its action therefore
deserves the same sort of condemnation and contempt that greeted its previous
bone-headed effort to require prior approval of all faculty communications with
the media, including contributions to social media. I hope Professor Beverly and the other
bloggers at “Crony
State ” stand firm against
this demand. The AAUP certainly is ready
to provide whatever assistance we can.
You can read the whole thing and excerpts of the AAUP statement on Academic Freedom and Electronic Communications below.
And thanks to an ex-colleague from CSU I found out aout this organization:
Anyway - I just want
to thank you & tell you, from someone who has been a faculty
member/administrator for over 35 years (1st post was in Jan 1977) I respect
& admire what you are doing.
--from
a Professor at a state university in Massachusetts
You're (sic) faculty blog fills in what traditional newspapers do not report. Our local newspaper, __________ is not much more than a PR arm of [the university] And, [another paper], though more independent than our local newspaper, will not report the details that you or I have knowledge of and evidence for. That's what our blogs do best. As long as you provide evidence, documentation, proof for your stories and label your editorials, folks will pay attention.
Of course, faculty are afraid of retaliation. You have to lead the way and that's what you are doing.
And don't worry that only a few faculty participate in your blog. Or that some moron administrator spouts his propaganda like "only a small group" are critical. If you weren't having an effect, they'd ignore you. That would be, in my view, troublesome.
I outlasted most of our miscreant administrators at _________and they, not me, give me credit for having played a small part in getting them gone.
We do our small part making our home, schools, a better place.
---from a Professor in Mississippi .
And
there are other emails or comments of support the CSUFacVoice bloggers have received from
faculty in other far off places like California , Wisconsin , and even UIC!
Well Land o' Goshen !
Who'da thunk it?
Maybe faculty around the country are just expressing how sick and tired they are of phoney administrators and their "corporate models" of governance (forget the shared part).
The "Streisand Effect":
Named after the American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, the Streisand Effect describes how efforts to suppress a juicy piece of online information can backfire and end up making things worse for the would-be censor. Ms Streisand inadvertently gave her name to the phenomenon in 2003, when she sued the California Coastal Records Project, which maintains an online photographic archive of almost the entire California coastline, on the grounds that its pictures included shots of her cliffside Malibu mansion, and thus invaded her privacy.
The Economist explains: What is the Streisand effect? Apr 15th 2013, 23:50 by T.C.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/04/economist-explains-what-streisand-effect
Going Viral
In case you need to know what it means to "go viral" the Streisand Effect began with an article by Juan
Perez in the Chicago Tribune:
7:23 a.m. CST, November 12, 2013
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-chicago-state-university-blog-20131112,0,1259026.story
This story and a little video of the reporter discussing it got picked up by a few other
sources and printed more or less the same information. Some of these media are the usual suspects, but a couple of surprises (the AAUP Academe Blog and an academic freedom organization, The Fire). Links are listed below
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
"Chicago State U. Orders a Faculty Blog to Shut Down"
Nov. 12, 2013 Charles Huckabee
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/chicago-state-u-tries-orders-a-faculty-blog-to-shut-down/69057INSIDE HIGHER ED"Chicago
November 12, 2013 by Scott Jaschik
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/11/12/chicago-state-tries-shut-down-faculty-blog#.UoJE9KxMXTw.email
Read more:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/11/12/chicago-state-tries-shut-down-faculty-blog#ixzz2kXbm9peL
AAUP ACADEME BLOG
"
...“A thuggish effort…”
While Chicago
State may have an
argument that use of its trademarks without permission is illegal, its
contention that the bloggers cannot use its name or must adhere to some
ill-defined standard of “civility” is entirely without legal, much less
ethical, foundation. Anyone who might be
misled to believe that the blog is an official publication of the University
needs some serious assistance in life.
This is clearly an independent, albeit critical, voice, maintained
outside the university and hence fully protected by the First Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution, as well as the most basic principles of academic
freedom. Moreover, the publicly funded
university’s claim that the blog violates its standards of civility is itself a
flagrant violation of principles of academic freedom long endorsed by the AAUP.
You can read the whole thing and excerpts of the AAUP statement on Academic Freedom and Electronic Communications below.
THE FIRE: Foundation for Individual Rights in
Education
"Chicago State Tries to Shut Down Faculty Blog"
November 12, 2013 by Susan Kruth
Cage also states in his letter that “the lack of
civility and professionalism expressed on the blog violates the University’s
values and policies requiring civility and professionalism of all University
Faculty members.”
FIRE has explained before that “civility” mandates
often impede free and open debate on college campuses and can easily be used
by administrators to censor speech based on its content or viewpoint. Even
“uncivil” speech is constitutionally protected unless it falls into one of
the few and narrowly-defined categories of speech traditionally unprotected
by the First Amendment. The Supreme Court noted in Terminello v.
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Just imagine how many people will post all of this on their Facebook pages. Oh my!
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Here's another blog calling Chicago State "America's Very Own Academic North Korea!" http://www.margaretsoltan.com/?p=42008
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