University of St. Thomas tenured law professor Mark Osler writes in the Star Tribune how his experience speaking out in favor of same-sex marriage differed from (recently fired) Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe’s: “He may be out of a job at age 31, at the height of his abilities. My employer, meanwhile, made no mention at Read more →
Alex is on vacation, but he’s written about this lawsuit against the University of Minnesota here, here, here, here and here. Now the U.S. Court of Appeals has weighed in, according to this release from the U: U.S. Court of Appeals rules in favor of the University of Minnesota in case involving the Turkish Coalition Read more →
It’s been the better part of a year since Alex wrote about the court fight between a Turkish group and the University of Minnesota over the reliability of the group’s site, specifically its information (or lack thereof) on Armenian genocide. Last April a judge dismissed the suit, but the Turkish Coalition of America is appealing Read more →
Although the University of Minnesota’s research partnerships with industry have been fairly flat over the past few years, President Eric Kaler is on a campaign to give them a big boost, MPR’s Tim Post reports today. Part of the push was a recently announced — and well-received — change in policy in which the U Read more →
// To fund programs in an era of tight finances, the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs is using a model that may be a bit unusual in the academic world of public policy: the self-funded fellow. The salaries and benefits of the school’s 30-plus tenured and tenure-track faculty are funded by the Read more →
Obviously, this was extremely disappointing to me, but I was even more disappointed by what (business dean Anne McCarthy) told me next…incredibly, because of my conservative political views I will not be allowed to teach business law to Hamline students. — Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer in a letter to Hamline University President Linda Read more →
David Saltzman and Bruce Fein of the Turkish American Legal Defense Fund argue in the Minnesota Daily what a court’s recent dismissal of the lawsuit over the University’s “blacklisting” of the coalition’s Web site will lead to: We think this will lead to state universities being able to prohibit student research of authors or viewpoints Read more →
A U.S. district court has dismissed a Turkish group’s lawsuit filed against the University of Minnesota over how the U portrayed its Website, the Minnesota Daily reports. The Turkish Coalition of America had claimed the U’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies was blacklisting its Web site by calling it an “unreliable” site for research Read more →
Here’s a belated update to the lawsuit story involving the Turkish Coalition of America’s lawsuit against the University of Minnesota and its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies over the center’s “blacklisting” of the coalition’s Web site I got this release from the College of Liberal Arts: In a gesture of solidarity with the University Read more →
For those interested in reading the main documents in the legal battle over the University of Minnesota’s portrayal of the Web site of the Turkish Coalition of America, I’ve scrounged up the lawsuit and an image of the portrayal in question. In a nutshell: Armenia and Turkey have long argued over whether Turkish forces committed Read more →
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