Democracy in education, education for democracy.
Motto of the American Federation of Teachers
News articles featuring quotes or interviews
Aditi Debnath, “The Chronic Scourge of Casual Antisemitism in a Divisive Era,” Here & Now, Wisconsin Public Television, February 24, 2023
Aditi Debnath, “The Chronic Scourge of Casual Antisemitism in a Divisive Era,” PBS Wisconsin, February 23, 2023
Aditi Debnath, “Shining a Light on the Growing Problem of Antisemitism in Wisconsin,” PBS Wisconsin, December 20, 2022
Ben Adler, “Trump, Mastriano’s Wife Criticize Jews for Not Loving Israel Enough,” Yahoo News, November 2, 2022
Karin Fischer, “A Playbook for Knocking Down Higher Ed,” Chronicle of Higher Education, October 18, 2022
Karin Fischer, “The Return of College as a Common Good,” Chronicle of Higher Education, October 3, 2022
Michelle Goldberg, “Antisemitism Increased Under Trump. Then It Got Even Worse,” New York Times, April 29, 2022
Emma Pettit, “How One Professor Will Turn Wisconsin’s Higher-Ed Philosophy Into a Seminar,” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 24, 2016
Pat Schneider, “New UW-Madison Course Aims to Foster Public Discussion of Wisconsin Idea, UW Influence on State,” The Capital Times, August 22, 2016
Opinion articles
“The Establishment and Its Trumpist Discontents,” guest-authored contribution to Eric Alterman’s column in The American Prospect, September 24, 2021
“UW Employees Need a Raise — and More,” Wisconsin State Journal, June 25, 2017
“Why I Wrote the No-Confidence Resolution at UW-Madison,” Wisconsin State Journal, May 11, 2016
Frederica Freyberg, “UW Professor Explains Reason Behind No-Confidence Resolution,” Here & Now, Wisconsin Public Television, May 6, 2016
“Search for Truth in Peril on UW System Campuses” (with Elena Levy-Navarro, James Oberly, and Jon Shelton), Wisconsin State Journal, March 4, 2016
- Reprinted in Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, March 5, 2016
“Tenure Changes Would Harm UW System,” La Crosse Tribune, January 7, 2016
Pat Schneider, “UW-Madison Professor: Regents Can’t Have It Both Ways on Tenure,” The Capital Times, December 31, 2015
“Regents Can’t Have It Both Ways,” Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, December 29, 2015
“University of Wisconsin System Needs Accountability for Everyone” (with Sara Goldrick-Rab), Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, March 16, 2015
“The Boycott Isn’t Leftist,” Inside Higher Ed, January 7, 2014
“There’s No Academic Freedom without Institutional Means,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2, 2014
“Current Challenges to Shared Governance at UW–Madison,” The Education Optimists, November 19, 2012
“Lessons of the Wisconsin Uprising,” Deliberately Considered, June 8, 2012
“Jewish Community Should Back Collective Bargaining Rights,” Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, June 1, 2012
“Scott’s Education Agenda Hurts State,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, October 15, 2011
“Workers’ Rights and Democracy in Madison,” Deliberately Considered, February 20, 2011
“Secret Ballot Is a Red Herring” (on labor law reform), The Capital Times, May 29, 2009
“Liberty and Justice for All,” guest opinion column for AFL-CIO Point of View web site, April 2009
“Unions Fight for the Future of Public Education—in Israel as well as Wisconsin,” The Professional, AFT-Wisconsin, AFL-CIO, April 2008