WOWT: UNO To Appeal Faculty Raises & Insurance
The University of Nebraska announced Friday it will appeal salary increases and a new insurance benefit awarded to faculty members at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. At issue is a contract for faculty members represented by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
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Tallahassee Democrat: TCC faculty still for union representation
A union update, the state’s economic shortfalls and federal stimulus dollars will dominate discussion at Monday’s Tallahassee Community College trustee board meeting — scheduled for 4 p.m. at the administration building.
The union activity, for example, is at a standstill. It’s been about two months since trustees unanimously agreed not to recognize United Faculty of Florida as the union representing the college’s 180 faculty members.
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Tagged Organizing, Unions
WLKY.com: Prosecutors Oppose Separate Trial For Felner, Co-Defendant
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to deny a former University of Louisville educator’s request for a separate trial from his co-defendant in a fraud case against them.
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Tagged Robert Felner, Scandal, University of Louisville
Life on the Left: “First Victory” in Guadeloupe general strike; Movement spreads to other French colonies
The general strike in Guadeloupe ended March 4, when an Accord was signed between the LKP Strike Collective and the local governments, the employers’ federation and the French government that granted the strikers their top 20 immediate demands and provided for continued negotiations on the remaining 126 mid-term and long-term demands. The LKP, or Lihannaj Kont Pwofitasyon – Collective against super-exploitation, is a coalition of 49 unions and grassroots organizations.
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BBC: French unrest spreads to Reunion
Violence has flared on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion during demonstrations against high prices.
Police fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing youths at a protest near Reunion’s capital, Saint-Denis.
Thousands marched across the island to push for a 20% cut in the prices of essential goods and an extra 200 euros (£178) a month for low-paid workers.
The unrest came after unions on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe had agreed to end a 44-day strike.
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Leadership Nigeria: National Strike: We Will Mobilise Against Labour, NUT – PADGOG
March 9th, 2009
Ahead of the impending national strike by teachers over agitation for increase in salaries and other claims, a socio- political group, Patriots for Democracy and Good Governance (PADGOG), has threatened to mobilise millions of Nigerians to march against the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) if it did not shelve the idea in the interest of the nation.
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PageOneKentucky.com: University of Louisville: Financial Audit Update From Robert Felner Scandal, Open Records Request Fulfilled
March 9th, 2009
Last Tuesday we discussed the financial audit of the University of Louisville’s College of Education and Human Development. That story revealed that UofL had not legally complied with our Open Records Request for a copy of the audit and we were reduced to linking to the audit’s executive summary, which was presented to the University’s Board of Trustees. Once that story went live, UofL’s legal counsel promptly and professionally complied by fulfilling our original request of the audit.
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PageOneKenutcky.com: The Robert Felner Scandal and Internal Damage Control at the University of Louisville
March 9th, 2009
More on the Robert Felner front at the University of Louisville. Along with previously mentioned Open Records Requests, we’ve finally received copies of late 2008 emails regarding the Felner scandal and what we deduce to being expected internal damage control and CYA.
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Tagged Robert Felner, Scandal, University of Louisville
The Brown Daily Herald: Full-time RISD faculty forgo salary increases
Full-time faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design have agreed to forgo a salary increase next year in the face of the worsening economic climate.
Henry Ferreira, associate professor of printmaking and president of the full-time faculty’s union, said the faculty “arrived at a decision that it would probably be best” to give up raises for a year to see where the economy was headed.
The union’s current contract expires July 1, at the end of this fiscal year. The faculty members have decided to wait for a year rather than negotiate a new contract amid economic turmoil, Ferreira said.
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Tagged Contracts, Salary/Economic Benefits, Unions, Wage freeze
Providence Journal: RISD teachers’ union votes to voluntarily freeze wages
Friday, March 6, 2009
PROVIDENCE — The approximately 144 members of the full-time teachers’ union at the Rhode Island School of Design have voted to voluntarily freeze wages and stipends for the next fiscal year.
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Albany Times-Union: RPI language programs may be at risk
College won’t confirm concerns; says students may have “opportunities”
Friday, March 6, 2009
TROY Some professors and students are worried about the fate of language instruction at RPI, which announced Thursday that it won’t renew the contracts of roughly 13 “temporary” faculty members.
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Block Island Times: Non-tenured faculty receive pink-slips for possible lay-offs
03/07/09 – At a special Block Island School Committee meeting on February 26, Chairman Bill Padien announced that because of looming financial exigencies, the school was notifying six untenured faculty of possible lay-offs.
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Posted in K-12 issues
Tagged K-12 issues, Layoffs
Los Angeles Times: Students protest LAUSD teacher layoffs [UPDATED]
11:32 AM | March 16, 2009
A large group of students from Roybal High School and Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in downtown Los Angeles have walked out of class to protest teacher cuts, authorities said today.
At 10:35 a.m., about 200 students walked about a mile toward the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters at 3rd Street and Beaudry Avenue, LAPD Officer Rosario Herrera said.
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Courier-Journal: Regents vote to curb tenure at community colleges
Vote by community college board angers instructors
VERSAILLES, Ky. — With faculty members raising signs in protest, the Board of Regents for Kentucky’s community and technical colleges voted yesterday to eliminate tenure for new employees and drop health insurance for new retirees.
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Ledger-Enquirer: Ex-Ga. Tech worker pleads guilty to racketeering
ATLANTA — A former Georgia Tech employee was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to going on a $175,000 shopping spree with her state-issued credit card.
Michelle Harris, 41, was charged with one count of felony racketeering for making hundreds of personal expenses on what’s known as a p-card, and altering receipts to cover up her abuse. Prosecutors say Harris, also known as Michelle Dunbar, used her p-card from June 2003 to May 2007 to pay for diamond earrings, car insurance, groceries and catering for a wedding.
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The Chronicle Review: The Roar of the Crowd; Sports fans’ primal behavior
Commentary
Peter A. Facione: A Straight-Talk Survival Guide for Colleges
By DAVID P. BARASH
Marx was wrong: The opiate of the masses isn’t religion, but spectator sports. What else explains the astounding fact that millions of seemingly intelligent human beings feel that the athletic exertions of total strangers are somehow consequential for themselves? The real question we should be asking during the madness surrounding this month’s collegiate basketball championship season is not who will win, but why anyone cares.
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Inside Higher Ed: Loss for Private College Union
March 16, 2009
Union organizing of professors at private colleges has largely been squelched since 1980, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in NLRB v. Yeshiva University that faculty members at private institutions should be considered managerial employees ineligible for collective bargaining.
A rare breakthrough for such union drives came in 2005, when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that faculty members at Carroll University had the right to unionize. But on Friday, in a ruling that focused primarily on whether Carroll was entitled to be exempt from unionization because of its religious ties, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the NLRB ruling, effectively quashing the union drive.
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Tagged Collective bargaining, NLRB, Organizing, Unions
Inside Higher Ed: Composition, Overcrowded
March 16, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — Class sizes and teaching loads for composition courses at community colleges — courses typically required of most students and seen as crucial for college success — appear to be growing well beyond levels that are considered educationally sound.
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Tagged class size, rhetoric and composition, Teaching, teaching load
The Chronicle: President of Harvey Mudd College Lands High-Profile Microsoft Board Seat
Maria M. Klawe, the offbeat president of tiny Harvey Mudd College, has landed a seat on the board of one of the highest-profile corporations in America: the technology giant Microsoft. The appointment could help Ms. Klawe — a computer scientist who juggles and skateboards in her spare time — raise the profile of Mudd, a 730-student college in Claremont, Calif., that emphasizes science, mathematics, and engineering.
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Florida: USF prez sets the model for AIG
Tampa Tribune: Cringing at USF bonuses
University of South Florida president Judy Genshaft must know that appearances can be as important as reality. Surely, she knew this when she handed out hefty bonuses to four top staff members — after the university had slashed millions from the budget, frozen salaries and ordered big layoffs. Three of those staff members report directly to the president. During these hard economic times, everyone at USF should share the pain. Genshaft, along with her advisers, deserve all the criticism they are getting for this insensitive move.
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