Inside Higher Ed: Rutgers Postdocs Unionize
New Jersey has certified that postdoctoral fellows at Rutgers University have voted to unionize, affiliating with the joint American Federation of Teachers-American Association of University Professors union that represents more than 5,000 faculty members and graduate students at the university. The Rutgers postdocs are the third such union nationally, following those at the Universities of California and Connecticut.
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Inside Higher Ed: An Early Take on SUNY
Nancy L. Zimpher, who became chancellor of the State University of New York on June 1, pledged to visit each of the 64 campuses within her first 100 days in office. She’s approaching the halfway mark of campuses — and took a brief detour to Washington this week to attend a meeting of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, a group she chairs.
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Tagged Administration, Nancy Zimpher, SUNY, University presidents
Union Tribune: Proposal to shutter some UCs hits nerve
UCSD profs’ letter says not all campuses equal
Online: To see a copy of the letter on budget cuts from UCSD professors, go to uniontrib.com/more/documents
SACRAMENTO – As it confronts an unprecedented financial crisis, the University of California is crackling with debate over some provocative proposals – such as closing one or more campuses – outlined in a letter signed by 21 UC San Diego department heads.
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Daily Herald: Investigation clears COD faculty association
An internal investigation has determined the College of DuPage faculty association did not misuse college resources by listing its campus office as the address for its political action committee.
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Times of India: Teachers’ strike: Talks fall through
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MUMBAI: Even after three days of intense discussion between the government and college and university teachers, the two sides seem to have failed to reach a common ground. The strike, which began on Tuesday, is set to continue.
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VOA News: Nigerian University Teachers Defy Government, Continue Strike
Nigeria’s government-owned universities remain closed Friday as an indefinite strike over pay increases entered a fourth week. The teachers declared a strike last month to push the government to honor an agreement on an enhanced pay structure and conditions.
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KPCC: Cal State chancellor says layoffs likely even with furloughs
California State University’s chancellor said today he anticipates layoffs next year even if its largest union agrees to furloughs. KPCC’s Adolfo Guzman-Lopez has more.
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez: During a teleconference, Cal State chancellor Charles Reed said his plan for two furlough days a month would apply to almost all employees and would erase nearly half of Cal State’s $584 million deficit.
Charles Reed: Furloughs save jobs. Furloughs keep people’s health insurance and retirement benefits in place.
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The Tribune News: Chancellor says CSU community will have to share the budget burden
Those employed and studying at Cal Poly and the California State University system’s 22 other campuses will have to share the pain of budget shortfalls, chancellor Charles Reed said Thursday.
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Tagged Budgets & Funding, California State U, furloughs, Layoffs
The Chronicle: The Economy and Adjunct Hiring
Over the past few months, I have been trying to discern a pattern to how the recession has affected adjunct faculty members. Are part timers being adversely affected by the strategies that colleges and universities are using to close budget gaps?
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Tagged adjuncts, Contingent labor, economic crisis, hiring
Globe and Mail: The summer of student discontent
Laura McGhie was pretty certain by last fall that her well-paying summer job was history. For the past two years, the McMaster University student had spent her holiday working on the shop floor of U.S. Steel’s Lake Erie works, her dad’s employer. The collapse of Ontario’s manufacturing sector put an end to that.
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Tagged Canada, jobs, Students, Summer jobs
Los Angeles Times: UC panel approves 11 to 26 furlough days for employees
The furloughs would affect as many as 140,000 faculty and staff at the 10 university campuses, with higher-paid employees taking larger pay cuts. Unions would have to approve the plan, officials say.
Reporting from San Francisco — A University of California Regents panel approved an emergency plan Wednesday for most faculty and staff to take 11 to 26 unpaid furlough days next school year to offset deep cuts in state funding.
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World University News: MEXICO: Student kicked unconscious by police
Amnesty International has condemned police in Chiapas State in southern Mexico after a 16-year-old student activist was beaten unconscious last month. Jose Emiliano Nandayapa Gomez was reportedly attacked because of his ‘subversive haircut’ although he has been involved in promoting the rights of young people.
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Boston Globe: Harvard professor Gates arrested at Cambridge home
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation’s pre-eminent African-American scholars, was arrested Thursday afternoon at his home by Cambridge police investigating a possible break-in. The incident raised concerns among some Harvard faculty that Gates was a victim of racial profiling.
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Tagged arrests, Harvard U, Henry Louis Gates, racial profiling, racism
Gainesville Sun: Amid barrage of harsh e-mails, ex-med school dean Kone resigns, gets settlement
Former University of Florida College of Medicine dean Dr. Bruce Kone has resigned from UF and will receive $517,000 over three years as part of a settlement reached with the university just months after it accused him of sending anonymous e-mails defaming university officials.
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Inside Higher Ed: What Counts for Tenure
For all the talk about how research universities place an increasing value on teaching, a survey on tenure standards in political science departments finds not only that research remains dominant, but that poor teaching may be tolerated at doctoral-granting universities.
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The Chronicle: When Computers Leave Classrooms, So Does Boredom
College leaders usually brag about their tech-filled “smart” classrooms, but a dean at Southern Methodist University is proudly removing computers from lecture halls. José A. Bowen, dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, has challenged his colleagues to “teach naked” — by which he means, sans machines.
The Chronicle News Blog: Muslim Scholar Excluded from U.S. Wins a Victory in Federal Appeals Court
A federal appeals court ruled today that the U.S. government might have acted improperly in denying a visa to the the prominent European Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan.
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Tagged Government, Legal isues, visa denials
Hindustan Times: Education official, middleman arrested
In the first move to clean up higher education, a senior official of India’s technical-education regulator was arrested on Thursday in New Delhi and several others charged with accepting bribes from private-college managements, after raids in Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bhopal.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Protests Flare Outside Iran’s U. of Tehran After Friday Sermon
Police officers clashed with protesters in the streets outside the University of Tehran today after the weekly prayer sermon was delivered there by the former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Inside Higher Ed; Measuring the Dreaded ‘P’ Word
Continuing its efforts to identify and encourage new ways to measure higher education performance, the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability issued a new report Thursday designed to gauge how successfully public colleges in various states use their available resources to produce graduates with credentials that are valued in their markets. The report, “The Dreaded ‘P’ Word: An Examination of Productivity in Public Postsecondary Education,” also ranks states using the measure.
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