Wednesday 18 December 2013

Heeding the call

Earlier today we published the list of universities which maintain Institutional Memberships in the American Studies Association.
Those memberships lend prestige and legitimacy to the ASA, and likely generate substantial revenue for ASA by funding faculty participation at ASA meetings, its primary source of revenue.
In light of the anti-Israel boycott approve by ASA, we called upon those universities to “decide whether they will become accomplices.”
One university has answered that call.
Penn State Harrisburg will be dropping its institutional membership.
Read more: http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/12/penn-state-harrisburg-to-drop-american-studies-assoc-membership-after-israel-boycott/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29

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