Dalhousie University Teach-In videos, by Solidarity Halifax:
“An evening of education, action and ceremony, teachers share information and analysis on the economic and political structures that have and continue to shape a colonial relationship between First Nations and Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state. The upsurge in parliamentary legislation in the form of Bill C-45 and other proposed bills is a recent manifestation of this relationship.”
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Tagged Equity, Idle No More, Organizing, Protests, Students
The BC Supreme Court has scheduled a Hearing date for the Jennifer Chan v UBC and others [Beth Haverkamp, David Farrar, Jon Shapiro, Rob Tierney] racial discrimination case for Tuesday 13 November 2012 at 10am. In January this year, BC Human Rights Tribunal decided to move the case to Hearing. In March, UBC petitioned to the BC Supreme Court for a judicial review to challenge the BCHRT’s decision. The Hearing is now in front of the BC Supreme Court and open to the public:
The Supreme Court is located at 800 Smithe Street (between Hornby and Howe).
The case involves the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education selection process in Fall 2009. Please see the Ubyssey’s (UBC student newspaper) feature article for background to the case.
Two new, similar complaints were accepted for filing by the BCHRT:
1) by an aboriginal Law Professor at UBC alleging denial of Tenure and Promotion on the basis of race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, marital status, family status and sex.
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Posted in Accountability, Administration, Advocacy, BC Education, Chan Case, Equity, Ethics, Faculty, Legal issues, Working conditions
Tagged Equity, Ethics, Faculty, Legal issues, Working conditions
Stephen Petrina has been named as an Expert Witness for Jennifer Chan in her racial discimination case against the University of British Columbia at the BC Human Rights Tribunal. The BCHRT decided on 23 January 2012 to hear the Chan v UBC and others [Beth Haverkamp, David Farrar, Jon Shapiro, Rob Tierney] case and the Hearing is scheduled for: June 11 to 15, 25 to 29, and July 3 to 6 and 9 to 13, 2012
BC Human Rights Tribunal
1170 – 605 Robson Street
Vancouver, BC
Chan initially filed her complaint on 10 May 2010 against the University of British Columbia, Beth Havercamp, David Farrar, Jon Shapiro, and Robert Tierney. A background to the case was recently published by the UBC student newspaper, Ubyssey, in a feature article.
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Tagged Administration, Equity, Legal issues
Courier-Journal: University of Louisville official given a $1 million buyout
Two months after the University of Louisville acknowledged it was paying a former lobbyist for not working, the university has confirmed it is providing more than $1million in pay and benefits to another employee asked to leave his job last year.
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The Chronicle: Malone U. President Steps Down Amid Plagiarism Accusations
The president of Malone University, a small liberal-arts institution in Canton, Ohio, announced his resignation on Monday after concerns surfaced that he had used unattributed materials in some of his speeches.
The president, Gary W. Streit, is retiring immediately. Wilbert J. Friesen, the university’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, has been appointed to serve as interim president.
Comments Off on Malone U. President Steps Down Amid Plagiarism Accusations Malone U.Gary W. Streit announced his retirement as president, effective immediately.Enlarge Photo By Jill Laster The president of Malone University, a small liberal-arts institution in Canton, Ohio, announced his resignation on Monday after concerns surfaced that he had used unattributed materials in some of his speeches. The president, Gary W. Streit, is retiring immediately. Wilbert J. Friesen, the university’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, has been appointed to serve as interim president.
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Tagged Malone U, Plagiarism, resignations, University presidents
The Chronicle: Plagiarism Charges Against University President Are Irrelevant, Court Says
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled on Friday that plagiarism charges leveled against William Meehan, president of Jacksonville State University, could not be part of a lawsuit filed by R. David Whestone, a biology professor at the Alabama university. Mr. Whetstone’s lawsuit accuses Mr. Meehan of swiping 55,000 plant samples; the plagiarism allegations were included to persuade the court that Mr. Meehan has a history of academic thievery. The court did not say whether it considered the plagiarism accusation valid, only that it was not relevant to the allegedly purloined plant samples. Mr. Whetstone found portions of Mr. Meehan’s 1999 Ph.D. dissertation that were identical to a dissertation published several years earlier. A chart of the similarities has attracted attention on several blogs.
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The New York Times: SUNY Board to Oversee an Audit of Binghamton
The fallout from the implosion of the Binghamton basketball program continued Friday, when the SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher announced that the university would not oversee an independent audit of its athletic department.
Binghamton also reversed the firing of Sally Dear, the adjunct lecturer who taught human development for 11 years before being dismissed earlier this week. Dear believed she was dismissed because she spoke out against the basketball program. The university had cited fiscal reasons. But Dear received a letter Friday saying she would remain an adjunct, althoug
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Tagged adjuncts, Athletics, Contingent labor, Scandal, SUNY, SUNY Binghamton
The New York Times: Binghamton Lecturer Critical of Athletics Is Fired
The Binghamton University adjunct lecturer who accused the athletic department of giving preferential treatment to men’s basketball players and pressuring her to change her grading policy for players was dismissed Tuesday.
The lecturer, Sally Dear, who taught human development for 11 years, said she felt the decision was linked to her criticism that appeared in a New York Times article in February.
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Tagged Athletics, New York, Students, SUNY Binghamton, Termination
Charleston Daily Mail: Debate over changed grades heats up
HUNTINGTON, W.Va.–The dean of Marshall University’s largest college changed two grades given to West Virginia Treasurer John Perdue’s daughter, and the classroom professor is asking for an investigation by the university’s Faculty Senate.
The allegations come in the wake of controversy at Marshall’s College of Education and Human Services, which has been beset by a number of complaints and formal grievance filings centered on its executive dean, Rosalyn Templeton.
The New York Times: Senator Moves to Block Medical Ghostwriting
A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation’s top medical schools have been attaching their names and lending their reputations to scientific papers that were drafted by ghostwriters working for drug companies — articles that were carefully calibrated to help the manufacturers sell more products.
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Inside Higher Ed: Lawmaker, University Get Caught
Conflict of interest issues continue to befuddle universities and their legislative patrons.
Last month, The Virginian-Pilot ran an article raising questions about the hiring of Phillip Hamilton, a powerful Republican member of the House of Delegates, to lead a new Center for Teacher Quality and Educational Leadership at Old Dominion University. The reason for the questions was that Hamilton had been the key legislator in obtaining state funds for the center. Both Hamilton and the university denied that there was any conflict of interest, telling the newspaper that discussions of his working at the center came only after the legislation had passed, and that he was well qualified and so couldn’t be excluded.
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Chicago Tribune: Ex-dean calls herself ‘victim’ of admissions scandal
After testimony on University of Illinois abuses, Heidi Hurd left message praising chancellor she had criticized
A former University of Illinois law school dean has made a final effort to distance herself from an admissions scandal, writing a lengthy letter to the state panel charged with investigating the practices.
Heidi Hurd — who testified before the Illinois Admission Review Commission nearly a month ago — sent a 15-page letter late last week in which she describes herself as a “victim” of the school’s clout lists, not a “perpetrator,” and details her efforts to push back against them.
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Tagged Admissions, Scandal, U of Illinois
Chicago Tribune: University of Illinois trustee resigns over admissions scandal
Trustee Lawrence Eppley urges other board members to quit
A University of Illinois trustee’s resignation Tuesday made him the first casualty of the school’s high-profile admissions scandal, though fellow board members and those investigating abuses suggested that others are likely to fall.
Trustee Lawrence Eppley quit in a two-page letter to Gov. Pat Quinn that implored his fellow board members to step down along with him. He also urged administrators at the Urbana-Champaign campus to take responsibility for their actions in order to help the university regain the state’s trust.
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Chicago Tribune: Trustee requested job help at U. of I.
University gave future son-in-law tailor-made, $115,000-a-year position
University of Illinois board chair Niranjan Shah used his connection with the chancellor in 2007 to get a high-paying university job for his future son-in-law, a Dutch citizen seeking work in the United States.
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Tagged insider influcence, Scandal, trustees, U of Illinois
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 New York TImes: Medical School Says Former Army Surgeon Hid Ties to Medtronic
A former military doctor and Medtronic consultant at the center of a research scandal did not tell his medical school employer for a year about his Medtronic ties even as he was conducting company-sponsored research, according to that institution, Washington University in St. Louis.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Georgia State U. Accused of Retaliating Against Professor Who Alleged Anti-Muslim Bias
A professor at Georgia State University has resigned as director of its Middle East Institute and filed a federal discrimination complaint because, she alleges, the university failed to adequately deal with incidents of anti-Muslim bias and retaliated against her and a student for pressing it to act.
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Tagged anti-Muslim bias, Georgia State U, retailiation
Inside Higher Ed: Baptist University Disinvites Youth From Church Not Seen as Sufficiently Anti-Gay
The University of the Cumberlands, a Baptist university in Kentucky, has told a youth group from the Broadway Baptist Church, in Fort Worth, Texas, that it has revoked an invitation for the students to stay at the university while working to help the disadvantaged in Appalachia. The Associated Baptist Press reported that the move followed criticism of the church for not being sufficiently anti-gay, as evidenced by its admission that it has a few gay members and that they have served on search committees. The university declined to talk to the wire service about its decision. In 2006, the university expelled a student for being gay.
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Tagged anti-gay policies, bigotry, discrimination, U of Cumberlands
The Chronicle: Mary Easley Is Out at N.C. State, and So Is the Chancellor
Shock waves from a politically charged hiring scandal at North Carolina State University continued to expand Monday with the resignation of James L. Oblinger, the university’s chancellor, and the firing of Mary P. Easley, the former governor’s wife whose $170,000-a-year job is at the center of the controversy.
The high-profile departures followed the university’s release on Monday of a large number of documents it had provided to a federal grand jury that is investigating dealings involving the former governor, Michael F. Easley.
Inside Higher Ed: Survival Tactics
It’s looking like a hot, sticky and scandalous summer is in store for higher education. In recent weeks, controversies of varied size have embroiled college chiefs at the University of Illinois, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and North Carolina State University, where Chancellor James L. Oblinger resigned Monday.
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The Chronicle: Education Dean’s Fraud Case Teaches U. of Louisville a Hard Lesson
The former official now awaits trial. Some colleagues say the university should have caught him earlier.
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At the end of 2005, Robert D. Felner was riding high. A well-paid dean at the University of Louisville, he had just secured a $694,000 earmarked grant from the U.S. Department of Education to create an elaborate research center to help Kentucky’s public schools.
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