First, a comment about the blog itself. Everyone seems to be posting comments in response to my very first posting. Those comments are here. The comments form a long, frustrated, angry thread. I'm hoping we can elevate the level of discussion if we move on. I think this blog has been valuable as a place to vent, if nothing else. However, not much more than venting is really going on. Would it be possible to use this anonymous forum, where people can feel free to speak out without fearing for their jobs, to establish a plan of action, to organize faculty and students?
Today Jindal officially announced the cuts we have known were coming. So very soon now we should start to see activity on the firing front. If we were in France, this action by Jindal's office would have prompted a general strike. Here, public sentiment and the national propaganda machine is so dead-set against higher education, we cannot hope for any sudden display of public support unless we turn this trend around.
So, let me ask the question... how do we organize? What can we do that might actually make a difference?
