On Campus, a Faculty Uprising Over Personal Data

Natasha Singer, writing for the New York Times:

“That information is absolutely private,” Michael Fiaschetti, Highmark’s president for health markets, said at the Penn State faculty senate meeting. He added: “We have never leaked that information.”

That in no way reassured Kimberly Blockett, one of more than 200 faculty members attending the meeting.

“As an English professor, I think I am having difficulty with your definition of ‘private,’” Ms. Blockett responded to Mr. Fiaschetti. “For me, discussing my reproductive plans with an unknown entity at an insurance company does not constitute private.”

University faculty finally experience the world the rest of us have been living in for the last 5 years. Welcome!