Wall Street Journal: India’s Ivy League Protests Lack of Public Funding
Faculty of the Indian Institutes of Technology Stages a Hunger Strike to Demand Higher Pay as Schools Face Staffing Shortage
NEW DELHI — The Indian Institutes of Technology, the subcontinent’s Ivy League, are in danger of losing their prestige, professors and alumni contend, because of faculty salaries starting as low as $6,000 a year.
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Tagged Budgets & Funding, India, Protests, Students
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
ABC News: Australia facing academic exodus: study
Australia could be starved of academics, with claims our boffins are overworked and underpaid.
A study by Melbourne University reveals a quarter of the country’s senior academics will retire over the next five years, and 5,000 academics over the next decade.
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Education Review:
Neumann, Anna. (2009). Professing to Learn: Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research University. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Univ Press.
Reviewed by Kathleen E. Fite, Texas State Univ-San Marcos.
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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Posted in Administration, Ethics, Faculty
Tagged Athletics, New York, Students, SUNY Binghamton, Termination
The Chronicle: When Tenured Professors Are Laid Off, What Recourse?
At Southern Mississippi, fights against program cuts are hampered by the lack of a formal process, professors find
If the University of Southern Mississippi seeks to fire a tenured faculty member for cause—that is, for allegedly sleeping with a student or some other malfeasance—that faculty member has recourse to a long sequence of hearings and appeals, spelled out in 48 paragraphs in the faculty handbook.
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Tagged Budgets & Funding, due process, Layoffs, program cuts, tenure, Working conditions
Toronto Star: The professor’s next battle
History professor David Noble is accusing York University of conducting a campaign of reprisal against him.
He is a thorn in the university’s side.
History professor David Noble has taken on York University for years; accusing it of playing religious favourites by cancelling all classes on Jewish holidays (and he’s Jewish); claiming pro-Israeli members of its fundraising foundation have too much sway over campus operations; slamming former president Lorna Marsden for expelling a pro-Palestinian protester and questioning the credentials of a recent faculty hire.
Since 2004, he has written a pamphlet critical of the influence of what he calls the “Israeli lobby” at York – whom he named, one by one.
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Posted in Academic freedom, Administration, Equity, Faculty
Inside Higher Ed: The Antioch Fight — Refought
Following years of turmoil, Antioch College may be about to be revived, independent of Antioch University, which many of the college’s advocates blame for its problems.
The American Association of University Professors is today releasing an analysis of the conflict, arguing that it is a “cautionary tale” about what happens when a board ignores the faculty role in governance. Antioch University leaders in turn are releasing their version of events, accusing the AAUP of being unfair.
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Posted in Corporate University, Faculty, Unions
Inside Higher Ed: Prof Leaves Seminary to Stay in His Church
Michael Cox, professor of music theory and composition at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s School of Church Music since 1990, has taken early retirement, rather than ending his membership in Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, as he would have had to do to continue to teach, the Associated Baptist Press reported. The seminary, which requires faculty members to be affiliated with churches that share its faith, recently said that Broadway Baptist did not meet its tests because it was not sufficiently strong in condemning homosexuality.
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Tagged anti-gay policies, Sexuality, Southern Baptist Convention
Inside Higher Ed: Israeli Academic Criticized for ‘Los Angeles Times’ Op-Ed
An Israeli academic who is prominent in his country’s peace movement is under intense criticism for publishing an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times calling for a boycott of Israel. Neve Gordon, who teaches politics at Ben-Gurion University, writes that Israel has become an apartheid state and that outside pressure is the only way his country will ever allow the creation of a Palestinian state. While many Israelis, particularly in academe, share Gordon’s belief that Israel should not stand in the way of a Palestinian state, there is, not surprisingly, a wide consensus in Israel that boycotts are not appropriate. And in Israel academe, which has been a boycott target for some British and other academics, that opposition to a boycott movement is strong. Haaretz reported that after the article appeared, Israel’s consul-general in Los Angeles wrote to the president of Ben-Gurion, Rivka Carmi, to say he was hearing from donors to the university who were vowing to stop giving. Carmi denounced the essay, as did Israel’s education minister, who called it “repugnant and deplorable,” the newspaper reported. Amid the uproar, Gordon qualified his call for a boycott in a statement to YNet News, saying that he wanted a boycott to be “graded” and “sensitive,” starting with products made by Israeli settlements on the West Bank.
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Tagged Boycott, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Boston Globe: Second professor accuses police of bias
A second black Harvard professor accused the Cambridge police of racism yesterday in wrongfully arresting him outside his home nearly three years ago.
S. Allen Counter, a prominent Harvard Medical School professor and head of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, spoke about his arrest on assault and battery charges in an editorial published yesterday with The Bay State Banner. The disclosure follows last month’s high-profile arrest of renowned African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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World University News: NIGERIA: Supreme court reinstates sacked academics
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has ruled the dismissal of five lecturers of the Federal University of Ilorin was invalid. The court will decide next month on a similar case affecting a further 44 academics who were also sacked eight years ago for taking part in a national strike organised by the Academic Staff Union. The verdict was hailed by lawyers and civil society organisations as a triumph of the rule of law and due process.
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Posted in Faculty, Legal issues, Unions
Tagged Federal U of Ilorin, Nigeria, terminations, Unions
CAUT: CAUT statement on Carleton University’s dismissal of Dr. Hassan Diab
(July 29, 2009) The Canadian Association of University Teachers condemns in the strongest possible terms the Carleton University administration’s unjust termination of the contract of Dr. Hassan Diab. The university’s actions show a blatant disregard of the principles of natural justice and due process, the legal right of an accused to the presumption of innocence, and the responsibility of a university to protect its autonomy from inappropriate outside pressure.
Dr. Diab has been accused of being involved in a bombing of a synagogue in Paris nearly three decades ago and is currently on bail awaiting an extradition hearing. The conditions of his bail permit him to work as an academic. The Carleton University administration was aware of Dr. Diab’s situation when he was hired to teach an introductory sociology class. However, after media reports of his employment at Carleton appeared this week and B’nai Brith issued a statement condemning the University for engaging him, the Carleton administration terminated his contract the next day, in the midst of a class he was teaching.
Carleton University’s actions represent a serious violation of basic rights and procedures. CAUT calls upon the university administration to immediately reinstate Dr. Diab.
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Tagged Canada, Carleton U, Hassan Diab, Termination
Inside Higher Ed: Return of the Professor
Stephen D. Marlowe, the Edison Community College professor whose recent contract-violating layoff outraged faculty members, has been reinstated. Despite the victory, Marlowe and local union leaders express lingering dissatisfaction with the leadership of Kenneth A. Yowell, the institution’s president.
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Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech professors object to Gonzales hiring
More than 40 Texas Tech professors have objected in a petition to Chancellor Kent Hance’s decision to hire former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, according to the petition’s creator.
Petition creator Walter Schaller, a Tech philosophy professor since 1986, said Friday he decided to take action because “with the emphasis on ethics the university has adopted, a guy that misled Congress is not the kind of person we want to represent Texas Tech.”
News-Press: FGCU professor’s second penalty is firing
Deposited school’s checks, FGCU says
The same FGCU associate professor suspended for touching a mannequin in a sexual manner has been fired for depositing university checks into his personal bank account.
David Lounsbury, 56, was terminated July 14 after an internal audit found he collected cash and checks worth $15,210.
Lounsbury is accused of asking students to issue checks directly to him, or pay in cash, instead of FGCU for an interview and interrogation course.
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Tagged Faculty, firing, Florida Gulf Coast U, Termination
The Chronicle: Singaporean Scholar, a Foe of Gay Rights, Cancels Plans to Teach at NYU
A law professor from Singapore has canceled plans to teach at New York University this fall following an uproar on the campus over her statements in opposition to homosexuality.
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Tagged gay rights, NYU, Singapore
The Chronicle News Blog: Charges Against Henry Louis Gates Jr. to Be Dropped
Authorities in Cambridge, Mass., announced today that prosecutors there would not pursue disorderly-conduct charges brought against the prominent black-studies scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. last week after he exchanged words with police officers investigating a falsely reported burglary at his home.
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Tagged Harvard U, Henry Louis Gates, racial profiling, racism
Boston Globe: Racial talk swirls with Gates arrest
Harvard scholar taken from home
His front door refused to budge, which is why Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., just home from a trip to China filming a PBS documentary, set his luggage down and beckoned his driver for help.
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Boston Globe: Harvard professor Gates arrested at Cambridge home
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation’s pre-eminent African-American scholars, was arrested Thursday afternoon at his home by Cambridge police investigating a possible break-in. The incident raised concerns among some Harvard faculty that Gates was a victim of racial profiling.
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