The Chronicle News Blog: Colorado State U. Board Picks One of Its Own as Sole Finalist for Chancellor’s Post
The Board of Governors of Colorado State University has chosen its own vice chairman, Joe Blake, as the sole finalist for the new position of chancellor of the university system, the board announced today.
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Tagged Administration, Colorado State U, Governance, University presidents
Inside Higher Ed: Not So Warm Welcome for New York Private College Chief
Last month, the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York named Laura L. Anglin — New York State’s budget director — as its next president. Anglin takes office in July at CICU, which has historically been an influential player in Albany with work on behalf of the state’s private colleges. On Monday, the Student Assembly of the State University of New York offered a welcome of sorts to Anglin — in the form of an ethics complaint filed with the state public integrity division. The SUNY student group argues that holding the job of budget director while interviewing for the CICU job was a conflict of interest because the state has programs that assist private colleges and their students. Anglin, in a statement, responded: “The complaint filed by the Student Assembly of the State University of New York has no basis in fact. As a public servant for many years, I am clearly aware of my responsibilities under the state ethics laws. Throughout the budget process, I took the utmost precautions to ensure that I had met the requirements of the public officers law, both in spirit and in letter.”
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Tagged Administration, Ethics, Legal issues, New York, Private colleges, SUNY
FACE: Florida State Grads Say Yes to the Union
When the ballots were counted this past Friday, it was clear that graduate employees at Florida State University wanted a union. By an overwhelming vote of 448-140, FSU grads voted in favor of the United Faculty of Florida being their sole representative for the purposes of collective bargaining. The new union, the FSU Graduate Assistants United, will represent 2,800 graduate employees.
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Tagged Graduate student labor, Organizing, Unions
Cyprus Mail: Teachers’ union to boycott exams over university admissions
TEACHERS’ union OELMEK announced yesterday that its members in secondary education will boycott the Modern Greek Pancyprian Exam, due to start in just a few weeks, in protest at the Education Ministry’s proposal to allocate three per cent of public university places to pupils holding international qualifications such as GCEs or the Baccalaureat.
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Tagged Cyprus, exams, Strikes & Labor Disputes, testing
pr-inside.com: Zimbabwe teachers poised for nationwide strike
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) – As they marked the annual labor day holiday, teachers said Friday their talks with the government to avert a nationwide strike over pay had not produced an agreement.
The education ministry «was not ready to offer anything» Thursday and a second meeting to include foreign donors and representatives of the United Nations children’s agency was scheduled Monday, said labor leader Raymond Majongwe.
The two main teachers organizations, the Zimbabwe Teachers Association and the Progressive Teachers Union led by Majongwe, have called the strike for May 5, the first day of the new school term. The two unions represent 60,000 members.
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Detroit Free Press: DPS to receive $169-million loan
It’ll keep the district afloat, Bobb says
Detroit Public Schools will get a $169-million loan that will give the district the money it needs to stay afloat through the summer, Robert Bobb, the district’s emergency financial manager, announced Friday.
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Tagged Detroit, K-12 issues, Strikes & Labor Disputes
Courier Mail: Teachers, nurses demand pay rise as others fear job losses
JOB loss fears amid the recession and the fight for better pay for teachers and nurses are set to dominate today’s Labour Day march in Brisbane.
Teachers will lead the marches in Brisbane and regional centres to launch a national advertising campaign over state pay levels and in recognition of the 120th anniversary of the Queensland Teachers Union.
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Tagged Australia, Job cuts, Salary/Economic Benefits
The Chronicle News Blog: Proposed Bias Policy Stirs Controversy at U. of Nevada at Las Vegas
The University of Nevada at Las Vegas is revisiting a proposed policy dealing with bias and hate crimes in response to fears that it invites First Amendment violations, but faculty leaders there remain concerned that campus administrators will end up curtailing free speech.
The chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education, James E. Rogers, urged UNLV officials to rewrite the proposed policy last week, after free-speech concerns were raised by faculty leaders, the state affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, and editorials published in the Las Vegas Sun and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. A Sun report quoted Chancellor Rogers as saying he was “very, very uncomfortable” with the proposed policy, which he called “far too restrictive.”
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Tagged ACLU, Free speech, Governance, UNLV
The Chronicle: Ward Churchill Asks Judge to Order His Reinstatement at U. of Colorado
With the support of two major faculty groups and a long list of scholars, Ward Churchill has formally asked a judge to order the University of Colorado to give him back his job as a tenured professor, arguing that only his reinstatement will repair the damage that his dismissal did to his reputation and the greater cause of academic freedom.
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Tagged Legal issues, Research misconduct, Tenure & Promotion, Termination, University of Colorado, Ward Churchill
Inside Higher Ed: College of DuPage Rescinds ‘Academic Bill of Rights’
The board of the College of DuPage on Monday night rescinded a version of the “Academic Bill of Rights” — David Horowitz’s statement about faculty responsibilities that is widely derided by faculty groups as a distortion of academic freedom principles — that the board adopted just last month. Monday’s meeting, however, was with a reconstituted board that followed board elections in which voters turned out key supporters of the measure encouraged by Horowitz. Faculty leaders at DuPage and elsewhere condemned last month’s vote as an attack on academic freedom. In the hours prior to the board’s vote Monday, statements were issued by several groups urging the board to reverse the April decision.
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Tagged academic bill of rights, College of DuPage, David Horowitz
Inside Higher Ed: Departments Without Chairs
Department chairs are a fixture of campus life and academic governance. A plan being floated at Kean University of New Jersey would merge many existing departments into larger units and replace chairs with “managers” — who would be appointed by administrators and would not hold faculty rank or tenure.
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Tagged Academic freedom, Department chairs, Governance, managers, tenure
The Chronicle: President of Struggling Medical University Abruptly Resigns
Susan A. Kelly, who had led Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science for three years, had encountered angry resistance when she announced budget cuts in February.
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Tagged Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, Susan A. Kelly, University presidents
Times Higher Education Supplement: Students’ union accused of snooping on lecturers
It simply wants advance warning of cancelled lectures, says president. Rebecca Attwood reports
Students are being encouraged to “snoop” on academics by texting a hotline if their teachers turn up late, the University and College Union has claimed.
Manchester Metropolitan Students’ Union launched its “LATE” campaign after receiving a number of student complaints about lectures running late and being cancelled without warning.
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Providence Journal: Providence seeks student tax at private colleges
PROVIDENCE — Students attending the city’s four private colleges and universities may have to pay a $300-a-year tax, under a proposal floated by Mayor David N. Cicilline to generate revenue for the cash-strapped capital city.
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Tagged Rhode Island, taxes
CBC: Chinese officials quarantine Canadian university students
Twenty-five Canadian students quarantined in China amid fears about the potential spread of swine flu are staying in a remote lakeside hotel and are “in good spirits” despite the setback, university officials in Montreal told CBC News.
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Tallahassee Democrat: FSU graduate assistants OK union
588 out of 3,000 cast ballots; 448 vote for representation
Graduate assistants at Florida State University have voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining United Faculty of Florida, the statewide union representing higher education faculty and staff.
Only 588 of the approximately 3,000 eligible graduate students employed by FSU cast ballots during the two-day election, with 448 (76.2 percent) voting to have UFF represent them in collective bargaining. The election ended Friday afternoon.
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Tagged Florida State U, Graduate student labor, Organizing, Unions
The Kingston Whig Standard: Queen’s atmosphere ‘tense’
EDUCATION: Faculty association accuses university of balancing books on the backs of professors
Tension is mounting at Queen’s University, where the faculty union is accusing administration of balancing the books at the expense of professors and instructors.
Last week, Principal Tom Williams said layoffs would be unavoidable unless all staff agreed to cost-saving measures such as unpaid days off.
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Posted in Budgets & Funding
Tagged Budgets & Funding, Contingent labor, Layoffs, Ontario, Queen's University
Boston Globe: Tufts to suspend student in fight
The Tufts University freshman involved in a high-profile altercation last month with members of the Korean Students Association has publicly admitted making racial and ethnic slurs and threatening to kill the students.
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Tagged racial slurs, Students, Tufts
Courier-Journal: Felner’s lawyer wants trial moved from Louisville
Media coverage called prejudicial
The lawyer for Robert Felner, the former University of Louisville education dean accused of misusing grant money and other funds, says his client cannot get a fair trial in Louisville and has asked that the case be heard in either Paducah, Bowling Green or Owensboro.
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Felner and a colleague, Thomas Schroeder of Port Byron, Ill., pleaded not guilty in October to federal charges of mail fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and defrauding the Internal Revenue Service. Both are free on bond.
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Academic Matters: Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age
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The Internet has made Open Access publication – the free distribution of scholarly work – a powerful possibility for scholars, administrators and publishers alike. Leslie Chan takes an in-depth look at the potential benefits, and looming challenges, facing this new approach to knowledge dissemination.
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