The Chronicle: Supreme Court Takes Up Challenge to Race-Conscious Admissions at U. of Texas The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it would take up a lawsuit challenging race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas, setting the stage for it to reconsider affirmative-action policies that it had ruled constitutional in 2003, before its composition significantly [...]

The Chronicle: Michigan Senate Approves Bill to Block Unions by Graduate Research Assistants A Republican-sponsored bill that would bar graduate research assistants at Michigan’s public universities from unionizing has been approved by the State Senate. Consideration of the bill coincides with debates over whether research assistants at the University of Michigan should be classified as students, [...]

The Chronicle: AAUP Will Reconduct 2011 Election After Labor Dept. Finds Problems The American Association of University Professors must redo an election it held last year after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor found irregularities that it believes could have affected the election results. The faculty group will hold a new vote for members [...]

The Chronicle Review: Deconstructing Academe By Jeffrey J. Williams Over the past two decades in the United States, there has been a new wave of criticism of higher education. Much of it has condemned the rise of “academic capitalism” and the corporatization of the university; a substantial wing has focused on the deteriorating conditions of academic [...]

The Record: Laurier could face strike by faculty in early March WATERLOO — Full-time faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University will be in a legal strike position on March 3 if a contract settlement isn’t reached with the university. The Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association said Wednesday that 520 members approved a strike mandate with a 91 [...]

CBC: Dalhousie faculty vote 83% in favour of strike http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/02/17/ns-dalhousie-faculty-strike-vote.html The Dalhousie Faculty Association has voted 83 per cent in favor of a strike. Anthony Stewart, president of the association said the vote will send a message to Dalhousie University that the faculty is serious about getting a fair deal. The biggest issue for the faculty association [...]

Protesters swarm streets of Spain against labour law reforms Photos of Protest Hundreds of thousands of people, many waving red and white union flags, protested across Spain on Sunday against sweeping labour market reforms that make it easier to slash pay and lay off workers. Spain’s two biggest unions, the CCOO and UGT, organised protests in 57 [...]

Occupy McGill The occupiers explain the circumstances for this action in a communiqué: “In the summer of 2010, Dr. Morton Mendelson (Deputy Provost, Student Life & Learning who is mandated to represent the interests of students to the administration) shut down the beloved Architecture Cafe, taking away our biggest student-run cafe and giving Aramark – a [...]

Vancouver Sun: Rights tribunal to hear UBC prof’s racial discrimination complaint The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has agreed to hear the case of a University of B.C. professor who claims she was passed over for a research chair position because of her race. Jennifer Chan, an associate professor in the faculty of education at UBC, filed [...]

Links to Recent Articles of Interest “US Outrage at Syria Veto at UN Rife with Hypocrisy” By Stephen Zunes, TruthOut.org, posted February 8 “Anniversaries from ‘Unhistory’” By Noam Chomsky, NationofChange.org, posted February 7 “The Betrayal of the Nobel Peace Prize” By David Swanson, WarIs a Crime.org, posted February 5 “Truth, Lies and Afghanistan: How Military Leaders Have Let Us [...]

Download Workbook #1 here: EDCP 562 Workbook 1

Please respond to each of the questions within the designated word range.

Workbook #1 is due on February 29, 2012.

Download the Research synthesis powerpoint here: Research Synthesis (ppt)

Here is the link to the Prezi presentation on research ethics:

http://prezi.com/0dbxs8hfiycj/research-ethics-educ-500/

NUT teaching union unanimously backs a March walkout
The NUT teachers’ union is pushing for a coordinated, national public sector strike in March over pensions. The union’s national executive committee passed a resolution committing the general secretary and deputy general secretary to …
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Inside Higher Ed: Faculty Labor Divorce United University Professions, the union that represents faculty members and other academic employees at 29 campuses of the State University of New York, is dropping its affiliation with the American Association of University Professors. The Delegate Assembly of the UUP — which has for several years been debating the wisdom [...]

OCCUPY EDUCATION! Class Conscious Pedagogies and Social Change The Rouge Forum 2012 will be held at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The University’s picturesque campus is located 50 minutes northwest of Cincinnati. The conference will be held June 22-24, 2012. Proposals for papers, panels, performances, workshops, and other multimedia presentations should include title(s) and names and [...]

OCCUPY EDUCATION! Class Conscious Pedagogies and Social Change The Rouge Forum 2012 will be held at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The University’s picturesque campus is located 50 minutes northwest of Cincinnati. The conference will be held June 22-24, 2012. Proposals for papers, panels, performances, workshops, and other multimedia presentations should include title(s) and names and [...]

The Chronicle: Faculty Union Calls on U. at Buffalo to Cut Ties to Chambers of Commerce

Opening a new front in the conflict between college labor unions and conservative advocacy groups, the University at Buffalo’s faculty union has resolved to pressure the institution to sever its ties with state and local chambers of commerce.

Below is a link for the powerpoint used in class January 24 & 31.

Types of Research (ppt)

The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier Academics have protested against Elsevier’s business practices for years with little effect. The main objections are these: They charge exorbitantly high prices for their journals. They sell journals in very large “bundles,” so libraries must buy a large set with many unwanted journals, or none at all. [...]