Disclaimer: In accordance with University of Wisconsin System policy passed December 11, 2015, please note that my statements reflect my opinion alone and not that of my employer, the University of Wisconsin System.
As a proud member of the American Federation of Teachers, I believe in the union’s old slogan: democracy in education, education for democracy.
“Il ne faut jamais perdre de vue quel est le but de l’instruction publique. Il s’agit de former non des ouvriers pour la fabrique ou des comptables pour le magasin, mais des citoyens pour la société.”
― Émile Durkheim
“UW Employees Need a Raise — and More,” Wisconsin State Journal, June 25, 2017
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
“Why I Wrote the No-Confidence Resolution at UW-Madison,” Wisconsin State Journal, May 11, 2016
“UW Professor Explains Reason Behind No-Confidence Resolution,” 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