Boston Globe: 2 former Tufts administrators admit big thefts from university
Two former administrators for Tufts University have pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $1 million from the school and spending it on items such as gourmet steaks, high-end fashion, and foreign travel, Middlesex prosecutors said yesterday.
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The Chronicle: Slide show: Assault on the U of Tehran
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Inside Higher Ed: The (Pro)-White Professor
A tenured professor who has taught education classes at the University of Vermont for nearly 40 years has written extensively and sympathetically about white nationalism, drawing fire from civil rights groups but support from his institution in the name of academic freedom.
The Times Argus reported Sunday that Robert S. Griffin has authored several books and articles that are widely read by white nationalists, neo-Nazis and other extremists. In 2001, Griffin self-published The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds: An Up-Close Portrait of White Nationalist William Pierce, a biography of the late National Alliance leader who hoped to establish an all-white “living space” in the United States and Europe. William Pierce’s novel The Turner Diaries in part inspired Timothy McVeigh to carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Inside Higher Ed: Higher Ed and the Third Reich
A new book examines American colleges’ ties to Nazi Germany in the 1930s — and chronicles a record characterized by indifference, complicity and collaboration.
“In order to understand the whole course of development that leads us to the Holocaust, I think it’s very important to see what influential sectors in the United States were doing. And in the case of higher education, it’s a very shameful record of complicity and indifference to atrocities committed against the Jews from 1933 onward — and actually a lot of collaboration, in terms of participating in well-organized student exchange programs, participating in well-orchestrated Nazi festivals in Germany, sending delegates to those and ignoring protests,” says Stephen H. Norwood, a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma and author of The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, new from Cambridge University Press.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Bethune-Cookman U. Fires 4 Faculty Members for Sexual Harassment
Four faculty members at Bethune-Cookman University have been fired for sexually harassing female students, university officials announced today.
The university in Daytona Beach, Fla., did not name the faculty members or provide details of the alleged harassment. In a written statement, it said it had hired an independent investigator after a female student confided in a faculty member, who urged her to file a formal complaint with the university’s president, Trudie Kibbe Reed.
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The Economic Times: Sibal spells doom for deemed universities, bats for private ones
NEW DELHI: The human resource development (HRD) ministry may allow private players to set up universities instead of going through the “deemed to
be university” route. The ministry will also push for firm regulations which would demand transparency and accountability of the players in the education sector.
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Inside Higher Ed: AAUP Censures 4 Colleges
WASHINGTON — The American Association of University Professors on Saturday voted to censure four colleges: Cedarville University, Nicholls State University, North Idaho College and Stillman College. At the same time, the association lifted censure of the University of New Haven and took a step toward doing so for Tulane University.
The Nicholls State, North Idaho and New Haven cases all involved adjunct faculty members. And AAUP members, speaking at the annual meeting where the censure votes took place, noted that it was appropriate that the association is taking more censure votes over the rights (or violated rights) of those off the tenure track.
Las Vegas Review-Journal: UNLV PRESIDENT: Source: Contract renewal unlikely
Pressure also mounting for Ashley to resign post
UNLV President David Ashley’s contract probably will not be renewed by the state higher education system’s Board of Regents, according to a source within the system. The source also said that pressure on Ashley to resign is mounting.
Ashley returned to campus Wednesday after he cut short a trip out of the country.
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VoiceofSanDiego.com: Teachers Union Joins Labor Council
The union that represents teachers in San Diego Unified, the San Diego Education Association, voted yesterday to join the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, signifying a tighter relationship between unionized teachers and other organized labor across the region.
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Inside Higher Ed: Second Guessing a Conference
In a move some critics have called unprecedented and dangerous, a Canadian government official has asked its humanities granting council to reconsider the funding of an academic conference some Jewish groups are calling “anti-Israeli” and “anti-Semitic.”
Gary Goodyear, minister of state for science and technology, asked the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – the Canadian equivalent of the National Endowment for the Humanities – to reconsider its awarding of $19,750 in funding for an upcoming conference at York University, in Toronto.
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CAUT Bulletin: Arbitrator Dismisses Google Grievance
Lakehead University Faculty Association contested the switch to Google’s e-mail in 2007, alleging violations of collective agreement rights to privacy and academic freedom.
In his decision, arbitrator Joseph Carrier acknowledged the university exposed its academic staff to greater danger because “…the likelihood of such incursions by U.S. authority into a private e-mail system (Lakehead’s own former system) was marginal compared to what might occur in the presence of the Google system.”
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Courier Mail: Queensland Teachers Union vows more industrial action
THE State Government has been warned it risks six months of industrial strife if it tries to back out of promised pay rises for hundreds of thousands of staff.
Before the state election in March, the Government signed a memorandum of understanding with several unions representing public servants and other state employees.
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Mercury News: Humboldt State faculty wants to oust president
ARCATA, Calif.—The faculty of Humboldt State University is calling on its president to step down over his decision to appoint a top administrator without conducting a national search.
By a 128-4 margin, the university’s General Faculty Association cast a vote of no confidence against President Rollin Richmond on Tuesday night, citing “a pattern of failed leadership.”
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Houston Chronicle: Chancellor gives A&M president poor score
The last few months have not been easy for Elsa Murano, the first female and first Hispanic president of Texas A&M University.
Last week, the chancellor of the sprawling system, Mike McKinney, floated the idea of eliminating her job and combining it with his.
The Chronicle News Blog: President of Alabama’s Jacksonville State U. Can’t Shake Plagiarism Charges
Back in April, William A. Meehan, president of Jacksonville State University in Alabama, was accused of plagiarism. According to a lawsuit, Mr. Meehan copied large portions of his dissertation verbatim from a dissertation published three years earlier.
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News & Observer: Mary Easley told to quit NCSU post
RALEIGH — Mary Easley has been told that she should resign from her $170,000-per-year position at N.C. State University because it is in the best interest of the university.
UNC system President Erskine Bowles said today that Easley has been given that message. He said he could not elaborate on her response.
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MTI/Hungarian News Agency: LIGA strike – Teachers join strike, disruption sporadic
Budapest, May 8 (MTI) – Around six thousand public education employees joined the LIGA union strike on Friday, according to the education trade union PDSZ chairman Gabor Kerpen, who told MTI that the strike had been successful.
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World Socialist Website: Los Angeles School Board eliminates thousands of teachers’ jobs
The decision by the Los Angeles School Board to eliminate thousands of positions is the latest in a series of attacks on California teachers. The vote by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) came at a special April 14 meeting called to address a budget deficit of $596 million for 2009-2010.
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CAUT Bulletin: CAUT Council Postpones Acadia Censure
Caut Council delegates voted last month to postpone consideration of censure of the board and administration of Acadia University over the firing of professor Colin Wightman, following a recommendation of CAUT president Penni Stewart and executive director James Turk.
They told delegates that recent discussions with the university administration were productive, and they were optimistic a suitable resolution would be forthcoming from mediated talks to be held in the coming weeks.
In a report released last year, a CAUT committee of inquiry said Wightman was fired without due process and should be reinstated.
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The Jackson Citizen: Jackson Community College faculty union planning to picket board meeting
Jackson Community College’s faculty union plans to picket Monday’s Board of Trustees meeting to bring attention to its lack of a new contract and concerns about the number of full-time faculty on campus.
The board said Friday in a statement it was surprised by the JCC Faculty Association’s plans to picket and responded to what the union calls “major issues” dividing the two sides.
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