Category Archives: Faculty

Globe and Mail: Ayers denied entry to Canada

An American academic and former 1960s radical accused by U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin of being a “terrorist” friend of Barack Obama’s has been denied entry into Canada to speak at an education conference.

William Ayers, a distinguished education professor from the University of Illinois at Chicago, said he was perplexed and disappointed when the Canada Border Services Agency declared him inadmissible at the Toronto City Centre Airport on Sunday evening.

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The Chronicle: Canadian University Apparently Tries to Oust Professor Over Grading Policy

Canada’s main faculty association has set up an independent committee to investigate a series of clashes between the University of Ottawa and a senior tenured professor who was suspended last month and barred from the campus, apparently because of a grading dispute in which he gave all students…

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Inside Higher Ed: The Academic Work Force, 2007

It’s hard to predict what’s ahead in terms of the economics of higher education — whether a long-term downturn will force colleges and universities to prune their expenditures, their academic and extracurricular offerings, and/or their staffs.

But one thing is for certain: The base from which colleges will be making staffing decisions, if they are forthcoming, has continued its steady expansion, with the number of faculty members and professional staff rising faster than other sorts of campus employees, a new report from the U.S. Education Department shows.

The annual study, “Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2007, and Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Faculty, 2007-08,” comes from the Institute for Education Sciences’ National Center for Education Statistics, and it is the primary source of information about the size, scope and shape of the academic work force.

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Inside Higher Ed: A Faculty Caste System?

WASHINGTON — As many institutions begin to designate and differentiate graduate faculty from regular faculty, they run the risk of creating something akin to an academic caste system. But with careful thought and planning, two speakers at a session of the annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools said Thursday, that does not have to be the case.

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The New York Times: Chain of Grief for a Flagship University

IOWA CITY — Famous as a literary powerhouse, with its Writers’ Workshop and award-winning newspaper, the University of Iowa has been the gloomy setting of more trouble and tragedy lately than could fit in a single book.

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The Chronicle News: Professor Is Among 8 Arrested in Colombia in Connection With Alleged Guerrilla Activities

Bogotá, Colombia — The police have arrested at least eight people, including a professor at a public university, in connection with an investigation into alleged guerrilla activities on Colombian campuses.

The investigation was triggered by the military’s capture in February of a flash memory stick from a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, guerrillas who have been fighting for decades to overthrow Colombia’s elected governments and are labeled terrorists by the United States and Colombian governments. The information on the memory stick included the identities of thousands of guerrilla agents, including 55 doing subversive work at the nation’s universities, according to El Tiempo (in Spanish), a newspaper.

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Ottawa Citizen: Ottawa university instructor arrested in 1980 blast at Paris synagogue

An Ottawa university instructor has been arrested for the infamous terrorist bombing of a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four people, injured scores of others and put synagogues around the world on a tough new security footing.

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