Philadelphia Inquirer: Bible professor suspended over teachings
Inquirer Staff Writer
Plagued by questions about the divine truth of the Bible, today’s young Christians are doubting their faith as never before, says Peter Enns, professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside.
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PageOneKentucky.com: Felner Funneling Money to Fake Company?
Robert Felner set up a $200,000 contract with his organization, National Center on Public Education and Prevention, located in Rock Island, IL a year after it was dissolved.
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The Capital Times: New interim UW-Parkside chancellor endorsed
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced Wednesday that he will recommend Lane Earns as the interim chancellor for UW-Parkside.
Earns has spent 21 years at UW-Oshkosh in a range of leadership positions.
University of Louisville Dean Robert Felner was hired in June to be UW-Parkside’s next chancellor, but then resigned the appointment after his lawyer disclosed he is at the center of an investigation into whether $500,000 in federal grant money was mishandled.
WISN.com: UW-Oshkosh Provost Likely To Lead UW-Parkside Temporarily
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh provost Lane Earns will likely be UW-Parkside’s interim chancellor while the school conducts a second search for a leader.
UW System President Kevin Reilly said Earns will start leading the school in Kenosha in late August if approved by the Board of Regents.
Chancellor Jack Keating was supposed to retire Aug. 1 but agreed to extend his tenure by one month to aid the transition.
The first search for Keating’s replacement ended with the hiring of University of Louisville dean Robert Felner.
He resigned the appointment after notifying Reilly he was facing a federal criminal investigation. He has denied wrongdoing through his lawyer, who said the probe is looking into the use of grant money.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Former Football Coach Agrees to Pay $4-Million to West Virginia U.
Hours after hiring an interim president, West Virginia University moved closer on Tuesday to ending the saga over its former head football coach, Rich Rodriguez, who quit in December to become the head coach at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Lawyers brokered a tentative settlement last night in which Mr. Rodriguez will pay the university $4-million, the full amount specified in a buyout clause of his contract, according to a written statement issued by Michigan.
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The Chronicle: Professors Cry Foul as Kean U. Demands Additional Office Hours
Professors at Kean University must be in their offices at least four days a week starting this fall, and will teach on Fridays and sometimes Saturdays, under a set of plans designed to raise enrollment and make professors on the New Jersey campus more available to students.
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The Chronicle: New Mexico State U. President Fires Off New Allegations in Dispute With Professors
Two professors whose contracts were not renewed by New Mexico State University, in what they say was a case of discrimination and retaliation, now say they are also the victims of baseless allegations of plagiarism by the university’s president.
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Las Cruces Sun-News: Martin accused of smear tactics; professors claim that allegations of thesis plagiarism are ‘preposterous’
LAS CRUCES — Two married professors who were dismissed from their professorships at New Mexico State University have filed a charge of retaliation through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against outgoing President Mike Martin.
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Front Page Kentucky: Felner Investigation Expanded In Rhode Island and Feds Now Examining Felner’s Non-Profit Org
The latest from Kenosha News’ Gary Kunich reveals new information in the ongoing saga of the federal investigation involving Robert Felner at the University of Louisville. And it affirms much of what this website has reported for weeks.
Kunich’s latest story … reveals that Federal agents returned to the University of Rhode Island for the second time to conduct interviews and review paperwork:
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Inside Higher Ed: Turkey Denies Pressure on SUNY Professor
Turkey’s embassy to the United States has posted a formal response to allegations that its ambassador pressured Donald Quataert, a professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton, to step down as chair of the board of the Institute of Turkish Studies, which was created by Turkey’s government to support scholars in the United States. Quataert says that he was told that the funds for the institute were at risk if he remained as chair because he had used the word “genocide” to describe what happened to Armenians during World War I. While there is a wide historical consensus that Armenians did suffer a genocide, Turkey denies this. The embassy originally did not respond to inquiries about Quataert’s allegations, but now has released a statement denying that any threats were made and saying that Turkey regretted the resignation.
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The Daily Gleaner: STU professors to teach fewer classes, earn more – report
The long-awaited arbitrator’s report on the collective bargaining agreement for full- and part-time faculty at St. Thomas University was released late Friday.
Full-time faculty members had their workload decreased from six courses per year to five and will receive a three per cent salary increase annually for the duration of the three-year contract, retroactive to July 2007.
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The Athens Messenger: Raise leaves union, faculty, students outraged
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1699 President Dave Logan said union members are incensed by OU President Roderick McDavis’ nearly $85,000 raise.
“Our union members are obviously outraged because we were told less than a year ago that they couldn’t afford to keep people that were making $9 an hour,” he said. “Then they come up with an $85,000 raise for the president. It demonstrates the Board of Trustees are way out of touch with what’s going on here at the university.”
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Daily Lobo: Staff disputes disparity in pay raises
UNM gave a 2 percent raise to staff and a 3 percent raise to faculty, and the Staff Union is displeased with that.
Any staff member who made less than $35,000 per year got a 5 percent raise, but union president Terry Mulcahy said the raise hardly covers everyone on staff.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Closed Out? Norman Finkelstein, Controversial Scholar Denied Tenure, Can’t Find a Job
It’s been just over a year since DePaul University denied the tenure bid of Norman G. Finkelstein, the political scientist who has attracted both venom and praise for his writings on the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Now no one in academe will give him another job — not even as an adjunct, he told The Jewish Week this month.
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Journal-Sentinel: Independent consultant to review UW-Parkside chancellor screening process
Chosen candidate resigns amid investigation at former school
Posted: July 1, 2008
The University of Wisconsin System will hire an independent consultant to review the search-and-screen process used to choose their top pick to lead UW-Parkside — a man who resigned from the post last week in the midst of a federal investigation involving his use of funds at his college in Louisville.
Robert Felner, who was supposed to start at Parkside on Tuesday, declined the job last week because he is at the center of an investigation into allegations that he may have mishandled $500,000 in federal grant money as dean of the University of Louisville’s College of Education and Human Development. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Kentucky is conducting the investigation along with the University of Louisville, the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Postal Service.
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The Journal Times: UW System to review UW-Parkside chancellor search
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 1:12 PM CDT
MADISON — University of Wisconsin system officials will review the process used to recruit and screen candidates for the UW-Parkside chancellor, following the resignation of Robert Felner, system President Kevin Reilly announced today.
Findings from that review will be used to improve future searches, including those at UW-Green Bay and UW-River Falls.
“We’re certainly cooperating in any way that we can with the UW system,” said Dave Buchanan, a spokesman for Parkside. “I’m sure there will be a new set of guidelines. I don’t think we’re going to reinvent the wheel. The process has worked at other campuses. It didn’t work here unfortunately.”
Felner informed UW system leaders on Sunday, June 22, of an investigation at the University of Louisville that involved the College of Education and Human Development, where he served as dean.
On Monday, June 23, UW system officials learned that federal agents had visited UW-Parkside on Friday, June 20 to examine papers belonging to Felner.
Within two days of the first notification, UW System requested and obtained Felner’s resignation in advance of his first day of employment in Wisconsin.
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The Journal Times: Rush ruined executive searches
What are we to make of the recent recruiting problems in southeastern Wisconsin? The obvious lesson is that people weren’t doing what they ought. Fortunately there are easy solutions.
Until the U.S. attorney in Kentucky a couple of weeks ago announced a criminal probe, no one would have found a solid problem with Robert Felner, former chancellor-apparent for the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Yet there were apparently clues to disenchantment with him which the local search committee knew of but didn’t think enough of to pass on to people at the UW System in Madison, clues which a system spokesman said would have been useful at least for further investigation.
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Washington Post: INSTITUTE OF TURKISH STUDIES
Board Members Resign to Protest Chair’s Ousting
Leader in Georgetown-Based Agency Encouraged Scholars to Research Mass Killing of Armenians
The issue that has roiled U.S.-Turkish relations in recent months — how to characterize the mass killing of Armenians in 1915 — has set off a dispute over politics and academic freedom at an institute housed at Georgetown University.
Several board members of the Institute of Turkish Studies have resigned this summer, protesting the ouster of a board chairman who wrote that scholars should research, rather than avoid, what he characterized as an Armenian genocide.
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National Post: B. C. university changes position on death research
Assisted suicide a touchy topic
VANCOUVER -Russel Ogden is a university instructor whose interest lies in death. Assisted suicide and euthanasia. Consensual and not. Murder, it is sometimes called inside Canadian criminal courts.
He studies certain “deathing” methods — including a virtually undetectable application called New Technology for Self Deliverance, or NuTech.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Westmoreland college told to eliminate patronage
Westmoreland County Community College may face sanctions if it does not do away with political influences that impact hiring and daily operations.
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San Antonio Express-News: E-mails detail UTSA professor’s fantasies
After a day of teaching, Ronald Ayers would shut the door to his office at the University of Texas at San Antonio — packed with newspapers, books and rotting food — and surf the Internet for pornography.
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