Haaretz: Junior and senior university faculty to unite against Treasury
Junior faculty members in universities are preparing for a joint battle together with senior faculty members from all universities and colleges nationwide. The new move, the first of its kind, was decided upon late Tuesday, and comes in addition to the senior faculty members’ strike.
The current situation, in which separate unions represent junior and senior faculty members, weakens the impact of the strike.
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A Statement from Susan Fuhrman, President of Teachers College
Teachers College is continuing to cooperate fully with Deputy Inspector Michael Osgood and members of the Hate Crime Squad of New York City Police Department, who are working hard at attempting to identify the person(s) responsible for the despicable act of placing a noose on the door of Professor Madonna Constantine.
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The Chronicle: Some Southern California Colleges Cancel Classes for the Week as Wildfires Blaze On
Several universities and colleges in Southern California have canceled classes for the week as wildfires exacerbated by high temperatures and fierce winds continue to scorch the region.
A half-million residents of the region were ordered to evacuate on Tuesday, and President Bush declared a state of emergency in seven counties to help speed up federal emergency relief.
Some colleges in San Diego County, one of the hardest hit areas, had already canceled some classes earlier this week (The Chronicle, October 23), and decided on Tuesday to cancel them for the rest of the week. Most of the colleges were not in immediate danger, and some sheltered people and animals displaced by the fires.
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The Chronicle: California Professor Asks Court to Dismiss Libel Suit
A prominent South Korean fertility researcher who once published a paper saying that prayer could help women get pregnant has filed a defamation lawsuit against an American critic who has waged a campaign against the prayer study.
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The Chronicle: Chemical Society Defends Its Opposition to Open Access
Officials of the American Chemical Society strongly dispute an anonymous e-mail message’s accusations that the assocition opposes open-access publishing because it wants to preserve the profitability of its journals and the bonuses that its top executives receive
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The Chronicle: Minority Hiring Still Lags in College Sports, Report Says, but New Standards Could Help
The proportion of minority coaches of big-time college sports programs continues to be tiny, a report says, but its author sees hope for change.
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Star-Tribune: Tutu-St. Thomas dustup isn’t over
Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu says he will not accept an invitation to speak at the University of St. Thomas unless a demoted professor is reinstated as director of the university’s peace and justice studies program.
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The Chronicle News Blog: A Lobby Forms to Battle Against Lobbying Tenure Cases
Calling itself the “Ad Hoc Committee to Defend the University,” a group of five prominent academics has posted an online rallying cry against “outside groups seeking to influence what is taught and who can teach” in academe. The group is especially concerned about the recent spate of popular campaigns to sink the careers of scholars who criticize Israel.
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Posted in Academic freedom, Tenure & Promotion
The Southern: SIUE professor sounds the rebel yell
A Southern Illinois University Edwardsville professor who believes in the power of petitions signed by faculty members here will present his latest one – calling for separation of SIUE from SIUC -Thursday before the SIUE faculty senate committee.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Plagiarism Scandal Spurs Renewed Call on Southern Illinois U. Campus to Secede
More than 30 faculty members at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville have signed a petition asking that the institution be made officially separate from the system’s Carbondale campus. The petition, which was addressed to the state’s governor, follows revelations that Glenn Poshard, president of the Southern Illinois system, copied numerous portions of his master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation without properly citing the sources.
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The Times: Rider faculty agree to contract
LAWRENCE — Rider University administrators and faculty reached a tentative contract settlement yesterday, averting a strike that could have begun as early as next week.
The agreement is still subject to the ratification of the board of trustees and union members, according to Jeff Halpern, a sociology professor at Rider who also is the head negotiator for the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
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The Charlatan: Double strike looms at U of M
University of Manitoba could face double dose of picket lines
The University of Manitoba already has one strike on its hands, and could be facing another as early as this week.
Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Local 2007, representing the school’s food service staff, groundskeepers, skilled tradespeople and engineers, walked out Oct. 10. The University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA), which represents most of the school’s professors, has set a strike date of Oct. 18.
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KTVZ: EOU, Faculty agree on new contract
Eastern Oregon University and its faculty union have reached a tentative agreement on a new 2-year contract that would run through June of 2009.
It now must be ratified by the faculty union and University of Oregon system. The faculty will vote Wednesday.
Details are being withheld pending ratification.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: City teachers union seeks strike approval
The union representing about 3,500 teachers and other Pittsburgh Public Schools employees plans to conduct a strike authorization vote by mail, though Superintendent Mark Roosevelt says the tone of contract talks has been upbeat.
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Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Teachers Vote With Their Feet
As qualified teaching staff leave their jobs and flood out of the country, the schools are filling up with untrained teachers.
By Yamikani Mwando in Bulawayo (AR No. 138, 15-Oct-07)
Zimbabwe’s schoolteachers once belonged to the elite who could afford houses and cars, but increasing numbers are now joining the exodus of economic migrants, leaving pupils in the hands of untrained replacements.
In the Eighties, when the country was still in euphoric mood after achieving independence, teachers looked forward to a life of plenty. Today, however, they say they have been turned into paupers by the deepening economic crisis. Like most Zimbabweans – especially others working in the large public sector – teachers have found their salaries eroded almost to nothing by spiralling inflation, currently estimated at over 6,600 per cent year on year.
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Sofia Echo: BULGARIAN TEACHERS’ STRIKE CONTINUES AS BOTH SIDES HARDEN POSITIONS
Teachers’ unions have repeated their demands for an average salary of 648 leva for everyone working in the educational system, including non-pedagogical staff.
The strike was to continue on October 22, while Parliament discussed the vote of no-confidence, mediapool.bg said.
One week before the local elections of October 28, Prime Minister and leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Sergei Stanishev showed no sign of giving in. A few days before, an agreement had been reached with the unions for 650 leva teachers’ salaries as of July 1 2008. Only a few hours later the unions denied having agreed to it and sent to their local sections a proposal under which salaries for teachers would reach 720 leva and that for non-pedagogical staff 420 leva. Average salary for the sector would then be 650 leva.
Sofia Echo: BULGARIAN TEACHERS’ STRIKE TO CONTINUE INTO FOURTH WEEK
09:22 Mon 15 Oct 2007
Negotiations on October 14, between representatives of teachers’ unions, government, Finance Minister Plamen Oresharski, Education Minister Daniel Vulchev and President Georgi Purvanov have not let to an agreement on the teachers’ salaries. The teachers are expected to continue their strike on October 15, going into their fourth week.
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WTAE: Stalemate Continues In Seneca Teachers Strike
Monday marked week two for the teachers’ strike in the Seneca Valley School District. Both sides said progress has been made, but no agreement has been reached.
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Jerusalem Post: Strike generates confusion at universities
senior lecturers’ strike in universities across the country enters its second day on Monday after negotiations between the Finance and Education ministries failed to produce a new wage agreement on Sunday.
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Haaretz: University strike enters 3rd day as senior faculty reject mediation
The senior faculty strike at universities enters its third day, after their representatives decided to reject Education Minister Yuli Tamir’s proposal Sunday to bring in an outsider to mediate between the sides.
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The Boston Globe: Complaint puts Texas teacher on leave
A popular English teacher has been placed on paid leave — and faces possible criminal charges — after a student’s parents complained to police that a ninth-grade class reading list contained a book about a murderer who has sex with his victims’ bodies.
Kaleb Tierce, 25, is being investigated for allegedly distributing harmful material to a minor after the student selected Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy’s “Child of God” off the list and read it.
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