The Chronicle News Blog: U. of Hawaii Names Sole Finalist for Presidency
M.R.C. Greenwood, a former provost of the University of California system, is the only finalist in the University of Hawaii’s search for its next president, Hawaii officials said yesterday.
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Posted in Administration
Tagged Job searches, U of Hawaii, University presidents
Quinnipiac University Polling Institute: Most Say Abolish Affirmative Action
American voters say 55 – 36 percent that affirmative action should be abolished, and disagree 71 – 19 percent with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s ruling in the New Haven firefighters’ case, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
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Posted in Diversity
Tagged affirmative action
The Chronicle News Blog: President of Alabama’s Jacksonville State U. Can’t Shake Plagiarism Charges
Back in April, William A. Meehan, president of Jacksonville State University in Alabama, was accused of plagiarism. According to a lawsuit, Mr. Meehan copied large portions of his dissertation verbatim from a dissertation published three years earlier.
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Tagged Jacksonville State U, Plagiarism, University presidents
The Chronicle: Denied a Discussion at a Reunion, a Macalester College Alumni Group Plans a Sit-In
A group of Macalester College alumni that has accused the institution, in St. Paul, of failing to expose students to a broad range of political views says it will hold an “old-fashioned” 1960s-style sit-in on the campus on Saturday because the college has refused to allow the group…
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Tagged activism, Macalester College
Evening Standard: Privatise top five UK universities to form Ivy League, says Imperial head
Britain’s best universities should be privatised to form an elite US-style Ivy League, a leading higher-education figure said today.
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Posted in Corporate University
Tagged Corporate University, Privatization, UK
Inside Higher Ed: In Living Color
A picture says a thousand words, but whose words are they?
That’s the question that resurfaced Tuesday, when a compelling graphic popped up on Internet blogs illustrating “what plagiarism looks like.” The graphic shows dozens of instances where a dissertation written by William Meehan, now president of Jacksonville State University, used verbatim passages from another professor’s research. Meehan has denied any wrongdoing, and he’s backed by Jacksonville State officials who say they’ve reviewed the work.
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Posted in Academics
Tagged Jacksonville State U, Plagiarism, University presidents
FACE: Michigan State Nontenure-Track Faculty Go Union
AFT Michigan has added another notch to its belt, as nontenure-track faculty at Michigan State University voted by a two-to-one margin for representation. The new union, the Union of Nontenure-Track Faculty (UNTF), will represent 650 part-time and full-time nontenure-track faculty on MSU’s East Lansing campus. The mail-in ballot election was overseen by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission and the votes were counted May 29. The final tally was 240-113.
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Tagged adjuncts, Michigan State U, Organizing, Unions
The Chronicle News Blog: U. of California Executives to Take 5% Pay Cuts
The president of the University of California and other senior executives, including campus chancellors, will take a 5-percent pay cut in the 2009-10 fiscal year, the president, Mark G. Yudof, announced in a letter late last week.
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Columbus Dispatch: Secrecy 101
College athletic departments use vague law to keep public records from being seen
Universities blocked out large sections of files requested by The Dispatch, incuding news releases from New Mexico, a summer-job report from Ohio State and a 2007 national championship game ticket list from OSU.
Across the country, many major-college athletic departments keep their NCAA troubles secret behind a thick veil of black ink or Wite-Out.
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Posted in Accountability
The Chronicle: BALANCING ACT
Rethinking the Tenure Clock
Dealing with the rigidities of the tenure system is a key reform facing academe, if we want tenure to persist
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I received many reactions and personal stories from readers in response to my April column, “Is Tenure a Trap for Women?” In pulling together their many different stories, I found that readers were mostly urging a rethinking of the inflexible tenure clock at two particular points.
News & Observer: NCSU leaders to testify on Easley
Chancellor and outgoing provost are subpoenaed to talk about former first lady’s job.
Federal prosecutors Tuesday ordered the chancellor and provost at N.C. State University to appear before a grand jury this week, making it clear that investigators have opened a wide-ranging criminal probe of dealings surrounding former Gov. Mike Easley.
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Posted in Legal issues
Tagged Government, Mary Easley, Mike Easley, North Carolina State U, Scandal
The Chronicle News Blog: 5 California Ballot Measures Fail, Making Deeper Cuts to Higher Education Likely
San Francisco — California voters rejected five ballot measures on Tuesday that were designed to help close the state’s budget deficit, leaving its public colleges and universities facing additional cuts of up to 10 percent in the support they receive from the state.
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Posted in Budgets & Funding
Tagged ballot measures, Budget cuts, California
Wichita Eagle: K-State files suit to stop secret Prince settlement
Kansas State University and its athletic corporation filed suit in Riley County District Court today to stop a “secret” deferred compensation agreement for former football coach Ron Prince that goes beyond the $1.2 million he received as part of his contract extension last August.
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Los Angeles Times: UCLA settles lawsuit with Tasered student
UCLA said today that the university would pay $220,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a student who was repeatedly stunned with a Taser gun by campus police after he refused to show his identification or leave the school library.
Mostafa Tabatabainejad, then a 23-year-old senior at UCLA, was in the library in November 2006 when a security guard — conducting a routine check to make sure everyone present after 11 p.m. was a student or otherwise authorized to be there — asked him to provide identification. Tabatabainejad, a U.S. citizen of Iranian descent, refused, saying later that he thought he was being singled out because of his Middle Eastern appearance.
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Tagged civil rights, lawsuits, tasering, UCLA
Inside Higher Ed: Did Bill O’Reilly Doom a Tenure Bid?
In many academic circles, being attacked by Bill O’Reilly might be a badge of honor. A Syracuse University professor, however, charges that he was denied tenure last week in part because of the fallout over his on-air disputes with the Fox television star, who has branded him “a new Ward Churchill.”
Boyce Watkins said that the university has responded to attacks on him in ways that are different from how it handles other controversial statements made by professors, creating a stigma around his work because it does not conform to “white liberal” ideas about race.
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Posted in Tenure & Promotion
Tagged Bill O'Reilly, Boyce Watkins, tenure
World University News: FRANCE: Sarkozy rejects retreat on university reforms
As France’s strike by lecturers and researchers passed its 15th week, it looked possible that students’ examinations could be postponed until September. But President Nicolas Sarkozy rejected any government retreat on the planned reforms, despite a call by university presidents for a moratorium; and the national coordination of universities reaffirmed its determination to continue the protests and reiterated that withdrawal of the reforms was “necessary to re-establish conditions for dialogue”.
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News & Observer: Mary Easley told to quit NCSU post
RALEIGH — Mary Easley has been told that she should resign from her $170,000-per-year position at N.C. State University because it is in the best interest of the university.
UNC system President Erskine Bowles said today that Easley has been given that message. He said he could not elaborate on her response.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Do College Rankings Belong on the Sports Pages?
Washington — College rankings may not be to blame for the decline in the quality of higher education in the United States, but they are doing little, if anything, to help. That was the nearly unanimous consensus of a panel of speakers from across the ideological spectrum who gathered here today at the American Enterprise Institute to discuss how the nation assesses the performance of its colleges.
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Tagged Accountability, rankings
The Chronicle News Blog: Robert Morris U. Faculty Union Forgoes Much of a Raise to Free Up Scholarship Funds
The union representing the faculty at Robert Morris University has agreed to give up more than half the raise due its members next year to allow the private Pennsylvania college to spend more on student financial aid.
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Tagged Contracts, Pay raises, Salary/Economic Benefits, Scholarships & grants
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Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst?
The Chronicle: Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst?
By JOSEPH MARR CRONIN and HOWARD E. HORTON
The public has become all too aware of the term “bubble” to describe an asset that is irrationally and artificially overvalued and cannot be sustained. The dot-com bubble burst by 2000. More recently the overextended housing market collapsed, helping to trigger a credit meltdown. The stock market has declined more than 30 percent in the past year, as companies once considered flagship investments have withered in value.
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