I wrote the other day about the case of Terri Ginsberg, an adjunct professor at North Carolina State who appears to have been seriously mistreated--from the standpoints of academic freedom, fair procedure, and viewpoint discrimination--in her one-year stint as a film teacher there. NC State has refused to hear her grievance--and the AAUP is refusing to defend her. This is a case that goes far beyond Ginsberg and NC State; it touches on the hypocrisy of an academy that swears by the ideal of academic freedom, but then structures employment in such a way that the vast majority of college teachers don't have it.

Now there is a petition to get both to rethink their positions. Read it here, and sign if you wish.