CAUT Bulletin: Ontario Universities Forcing Retirees Out as Mandatory Retirement Ends
Ontario’s public universities are applying retirement rules differently, leaving some academic staff with no choice but to retire when they turn 65, and others with the choice to keep working.
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CAUT Bulletin: CAUT condemns federal government directives on women’s programs
CAUT has written to Prime Minister Harper to express shock and anger over his government’s elimination of funding for women’s groups seeking support for research, lobbying or advocacy projects. CAUT also objected to the Harper government’s direction to Status of Women Canada that the agency drop “equality” from its list of goals.
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CAUT Bulletin: Canada: Settlement welcomed in federal research chairs discrimination complaint
The Canadian Association of University Teachers is welcoming today’s settlement of a human rights complaint launched by eight female professors against a federal government research program.“Today’s settlement is an important step toward redressing some very serious inequities in the academic research community,” said CAUT President Greg Allain.
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The Guardian: Iran’s fundamentalists push for segregation on campus
Religious fundamentalists in Iran are demanding separate university classes for men and women in a drive to impose puritanical Islamic values on the country’s campuses.
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Inside Higher Ed: Domestic Partner Benefits Win a Round
An Ohio judge has rejected a suit challenging the legality of Miami University’s policy of offering domestic partner benefits to its employees.
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Inside Higher Ed: Hopkins Endorses Gender Parity
A recent study, three years in the making, finds that Johns Hopkins University continues to lag behind comparable research institutions in recruiting and hiring female faculty and executive leaders. The Hopkins committee releasing the report has recommended and the university has endorsed that the institution achieve 50 percent representation of women in senior faculty and leadership positions by 2020.
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The Wall Street Journal: Preferences Forever?
Preferences Forever?
The University of Michigan’s president does her best George Wallace impersonation.
Michigan voters struck a blow for equality this month, when 58% of them approved an amendment to the state constitution banning racial discrimination in public universities and contracting. Almost identical measures have previously passed by similar majorities in California and Washington state. That means the original meaning of the 1964 Civil Rights Act–that racial discrimination of any kind is illegal–has won reaffirmation in three liberal states, none of which have voted for a Republican for president since 1988. Supporters now plan to carry the fight to other states.
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Inside Higher Ed: Still Fighting for Affirmative Action
The day after Michigan voters approved a ban on affirmative action by public colleges and universities, the president of the University of Michigan said that her institution was exploring legal challenges it might make to the referendum.
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LA Daily News: UC pay inequity
HERE’S a quick word problem for students at the University of California to ponder: If university fees go up every year at the same rate as the increased bonus and perks for UC executives do, at what point will California fall into the ocean?
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Inside Higher Ed: Michigan Votes Down Affirmative Action
Michigan voters on Tuesday approved a ban on affirmative action at the state’s public colleges and in government contracting. The vote came despite opposition to the ban from most academic and business leaders in the state — and the history in which the University of Michigan played a key role in preserving the right of colleges to consider race as a factor in admissions.
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The American Prospect: Affirmative Action Measure on Michigan Ballot
Though it perhaps plays a more positive role than ever before in American popular culture, race has played an unmistakably divisive role this election season. The Republican leadership showed its true colors with the instantly infamous ad it funded in Tennessee playing into the lingering aversion among Southern voters to interracial sex. Americans shouldn’t quickly forget that though the ad attacking black congressman and Senate candidate Harold Ford was pulled by many Tennessee TV stations late last month, it wasn’t pulled everywhere.
Inside Higher Ed: Affirmative Action for White C+ Guys
Towson University, facing a gender gap, starts admissions program for those with high SAT scores and lower grades
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The Globe and Mail: A revolution from within
From the social sciences to medical school to music to law, women now make up the majority of student enrolment. Even engineering and business faculties are starting to see a shift. As IAN BROWN reports, the impact is profound — and so far, for the better
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The Enquirer: Domestic partner benefits OK’ed
Domestic partners of University of Cincinnati faculty and non-union employees will have access to benefits, including life insurance and long-term care insurance, the university’s trustees decided today.
Trustees unanimously approved the new benefits with no discussion during a special 15-minute meeting this morning.
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Inside Higher Ed: New Measures for Gender Inequities
There are all kinds of reasons why one professor on a campus might earn more than another — seniority, rank, market differences for disciplines, to name but a few. What about sexism?
The Chronicle: AAUP Report Blames Colleges for Gender Inequity Among Professors
Just 39 percent of full-time professors in the 2005-6 academic year were women, says a report scheduled to be released today by the American Association of University Professors. The report lists how 1,445 colleges and universities measure up in four indicators of “gender equity” within the professoriate.
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Inside Higher Ed: Too Asian?
“Rachel, for an Asian, has many friends.”
That’s the kind of line that apparently is turning up more and more in letters of recommendation on behalf of Asian American applicants to top colleges, according to experts on a panel called “Too Asian?” at the annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
When the recommendation line was cited as the kind of bias — even perhaps well intentioned bias — that pervades the admissions process, many in the audience at first seemed angry that in 2006 people would reference race in that way. But when it came time for audience comments, one high school counselor said that counselors feel they have no choice but to mention students’ Asian status and to try to make it seem like their Asian students are different from other Asian students.
The Chronicle: Higher-Education Groups Urge Supreme Court to Preserve Race-Based School Assignments
The American Council on Education joined at least 19 other higher-education groups on Tuesday in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve race-conscious public-school assignments in two cases seen as potentially affecting affirmative action at colleges.
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Lexington Herald-Leader: UK wins fight for black enrollment
Here’s evidence that the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville go to battle in a lot more than football and basketball.
Take the recruiting of black students.
UK announced last month that it had a 96 percent increase in the number of entering black freshmen — a big recovery from a 40 percent drop in 2005. Now it appears that some of UK’s reversal of fortune came at U of L’s expense.
U of L had an 8.9 percent decrease in black freshmen this fall, from 291 a year ago to this year’s 265, according to preliminary figures from the state Council on Postsecondary Education. Located in the Kentucky city with the biggest black population, the college also had a 3.8 percent decline in overall black enrollment — down to 2,400 from 2,496 — which includes undergraduates, graduate and professional students.
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Inside Higher Ed: Dueling Data on Women and Work
Yale researcher challenges Times article saying female grads of elite colleges would choose children over job.
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The U.S. Supreme Court, on the first day of its new term, let stand a Louisiana court’s ruling that Louisiana State University did not engage in racial discrimination when it fired its former women’s track coach, Loren Seagrave, in 1990. A lower court had found discrimination and ordered LSU to pay Seagrave $773,000. But the appeals panel — in a ruling that the Louisiana Supreme Court let stand — ruled last year that the alleged comments by a former athletics director that Seagrave cited to prove he had been discriminated against for being married to a black woman were too out of date to have been used as evidence of discrimination.
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