The Florida Alligator: Shocked
We are in utter disbelief about the events at Sen. John Kerry’s speech Monday afternoon. It doesn’t matter if we agree with Andrew Meyer’s opinions, if he should have been led away from a microphone at the speech or even if he should have been arrested.
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Inside Higher Ed: Chemerinsky Gets Irvine Deanship
Erwin Chemerinsky, who was offered the job as the first law school dean at the University of California at Irvine and then saw the offer rescinded, has the offer back. Chemerinsky and Michael V. Drake, Irvine’s chancellor, issued a joint announcement Monday — after days of intense criticism of Drake for taking back the earlier offer. The second offer came after Drake flew to North Carolina (Chemerinsky teaches law at Duke) for a lengthy meeting over the weekend. Chererinsky said last week that the offer had been revoked because his liberal writing about legal issues apparently worried Drake and some conservative supporters of Irvine. Professors at Irvine and elsewhere were outraged that the job offer had been rescinded for political reasons, and some pushed for Drake’s ouster. In their joint statement, Chemerinsky and Drake said: “Our new law school will be founded on the bedrock principle of academic freedom. The chancellor reiterated his lifelong, unqualified commitment to academic freedom, which extends to every faculty member, including deans and other senior administrators.” During a telephone press conference Monday, Chemerinsky said that he would never have agreed to any position that made him feel “muzzled” and that he would continue to write op-eds (the apparent source of conservative opposition to his appointment) although he also was mindful of the role he would have as dean. In several comments during the press conference, Drake suggested that the main problem in the last week was publicity. He talked about how the revoked job led to “more noise” than he expected, and said that the “public nature” of the discussions has been difficult.
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Inside Higher Ed: The Public (Non-Salary) Advantage
When it comes to faculty salaries, there’s little doubt that public higher education is at a real disadvantage these days. Private institutions pay more. According to the most recent salary data from the American Association of University Professors, private pay is more in all sectors of higher education. At doctoral universities, the average for assistant professors at privates is more than the average for associate professors at publics. Full professors at doctoral institutions that are private earn, on average, $30,000 more than those at publics. At baccalaureate institutions, the gap is about $14,000.
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Posted in Salary/Economic Benefits
The Chronicle News Blog: In Abrupt Reversal, Erwin Chemerinsky to Become Law Dean at UC-Irvine
The University of California at Irvine is hiring Erwin Chemerinsky as its law dean after all. In a news conference that is still going on, the university’s chancellor, Michael V. Drake, is announcing that Mr. Chemerinsky, a professor at Duke University, will become the law school’s inaugural dean, less than a week after Dr. Drake drew an avalanche of criticism for at first offering Mr. Chemerinsky the job, then withdrawing the offer because he was “too politically controversial” — which many critics viewed as code words for “too liberal.”
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The Davis Enterprise: UC yanks speaker’s invitation: Controversial ex-Harvard president was scheduled to address regents Wednesday
After a group of UC Davis women faculty began circulating a petition, UC regents rescinded an invitation to Larry Summers, the controversial former president of Harvard University, to speak at a board dinner Wednesday night in Sacramento. The dinner comes during the regents’ meeting at UCD next week.
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Posted in Free speech
The Chronicle: Internal Panel Will Review Plagiarism Allegations Against President of Southern Illinois U.
A panel of seven senior faculty members will investigate plagiarism accusations against the president of Southern Illinois University, the institution announced last week. The group’s ability to be impartial is already being questioned.
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Posted in Academics, Administration
The Chronicle: Hiring Debacle Prompts Damage Control and Conflicting Views at UC-Irvine
Officials at the University of California at Irvine are scrambling to try to undo the damage caused by the chancellor’s sudden decision last week to rescind a contract offered to Erwin Chemerinsky, a prominent Duke University law professor, to be Irvine’s inaugural law-school dean. One possibility that was reportedly being pursued: rescinding the rescission and hiring the outspoken liberal after all.
Whether he would consider such an offer is another matter. “I really don’t know how I’d feel about that,” the Duke professor said on Saturday. “This has been one of the longest and hardest weeks of my life, and it’s hard to start thinking in those terms.”
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Posted in Academic freedom, Administration
The New York Times: Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why
Nalini Ghuman, an up-and-coming musicologist and expert on the British composer Edward Elgar, was stopped at the San Francisco airport in August last year and, without explanation, told that she was no longer allowed to enter the United States.
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Posted in Faculty, Government, International
Stanford Daily: Donald Rumsfeld headed to Stanford
Former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld will be joining the ranks of the Hoover Institution as a distinguished visiting fellow, the University announced Friday afternoon.
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Posted in Government
San Diego Union Tribune: Legal scholar’s dismissal could delay UCI law school opening
The opening of the University of California, Irvine’s new law school in 2009 could be delayed now that the school has to begin a new search for a founding dean, said officials.
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Posted in Academics
Daily Telegraph: John Denham: Universities biased against poor
Leading universities are guilty of bias towards middle-class teenagers leading to a “huge waste” of the talents of children from poor backgrounds, a Government minister said yesterday.
John Denham, the Universities Secretary, said some of the “most sought-after” institutions were shunning bright children from poor homes.
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New York Times: University Fences In a Berkeley Protest, and a New One Arises
In many ways and for many months, the protest outside Memorial Stadium at the University of California has been business, and Berkeley, as usual.
On one side are the protesting tree lovers who have been living Tarzan-like since December in a stand of coastal oaks and other trees. On the other is the university, which wants to cut down the trees to build a $125 million athletic center, part of a larger plan to upgrade its aging, seismically challenged football stadium.
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Posted in Protests
Los Angeles Times: Michael Drake: Why I let Chemerinsky go
I made a management decision — not an ideological or political one — to rescind the job offer, says the UC Irvine chancellor.
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Los Angeles Times: Erwin Chemerinsky: Dumped over an Op-Ed
Erwin Chemerinsky, unhired as UC Irvine’s founding law school dean, says his ordeal is a lesson in academic freedom.
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The Chronicle: COMPLAINT: TOO MANY REPUBLICANS
Kentucky’s attorney general has taken his dispute with the state’s governor over the makeup of public-university governing boards to court. His lawsuit seeks to have 13 of the governor’s appointments declared invalid.
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Posted in Governance, Government, Legal issues
The Chronicle: Rensselaer Professors Challenge Provost’s Decision to Suspend Faculty Senate
A struggle over faculty governance is coming to a head at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where faculty members plan to vote next week on a proposal that would ask the university’s provost to reinstate the Faculty Senate, which he suspended in early August.
The provost, Robert E. Palazzo, has cited concerns about possible interference in a continuing review of faculty governance as one of his reasons for suspending the senate on August 7. But some professors say they suspect the move was in response to the senate’s election as its vice president a colleague who has openly criticized Rensselaer’s president, Shirley Ann Jackson.
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Arizona Republic: State to Investigate Whether Arizona State U. Broke Law on Aid to Illegal Immigrants
Last November, seven out of 10 voters decreed that no longer shall undocumented immigrants get in-state tuition or any public help in covering the out-of-state tab.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Prosecutors Say Former Texas Southern U. President Ran Up $100,000 Bar Tab
The trial of Priscilla D. Slade, who was fired last year as Texas Southern University’s president, is in full swing. Ms. Slade, who led the financially troubled university from 1999 to 2006, is accused of misspending more than $500,000 in university money on personal expenses during her tenure.
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Posted in Legal issues
Honolulu Advertiser: Track and field coach sues UH
The University of Hawai’i “balanced the UH athletics budget on the back of women’s athletics,” the school’s women’s track and field coach charged in a lawsuit filed in Circuit Court yesterday.
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Posted in Legal issues
Omaha World-Herald: UNL professor who took explosives to class makes deal to resign
A chemistry professor who had explosives in class has agreed to resign from a tenured position at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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