Chicago: City teachers OK contract

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Chicago Tribune: City teachers OK contract

Chicago Teachers Union members Monday approved a 5-year contract that gives them a 4 percent increase each year and a freeze on insurance costs for three years.

Substance: Breaking Story: Chaos at the CTU Meeting

Marylin Stewart (pictured center, at right) made the unprecedented decision to not hold a role-call vote at the August 31, 2007 Chicago Teacher’s Meeting. The chaos that ensued was caught on video, and shows a throng of teachers and union members in the crowd booing the newly proposed contract.

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Australia: Government plea on teacher strike

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The Age: Government plea on teacher strike

Acting Victorian Education Minister Maxine Morand has implored the teachers’ union to return to the negotiating table and call off a planned strike.

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Bulgarian teachers to stage strikes over pay rise

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People’s Daily Online: Bulgarian teachers to stage strikes over pay rise

Bulgaria’s teachers will stage several strikes in the coming days to protest at their stagnant and low wages, the trade union said Monday.

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Czech teachers to support their pay demands with demonstration

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CN: Czech teachers to support their pay demands with demonstration

Prague- Some 500 Czech teachers will possible take part in a Wednesday demonstration outside the Government Office organised by the Bohemian and Moravian Educational Workers Union to support the teachers’ pay demands, union chairman Frantisek Dobsik told CTK today.

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Finland: Unions Gearing Up for Possible Strikes

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YLE News: Unions Gearing Up for Possible Strikes

Many employees’ contracts run out this autumn and early winter, but labour market organisations decided to skip the traditional ritual of central national contract negotiations this time around — partly since the pro-labour Social Democratic Party was knocked out of the government in last spring’s election.

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New Zealand: Union to advise teachers if national strike still on

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Radio New Zealand: Union to advise teachers if national strike still on

The Post Primary Teachers Association will tell secondary teachers on Monday whether a national strike on Wednesday is to go ahead.

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India: College teachers strike work, want demands met

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Ludhiana Newsline: College teachers strike work, want demands met

he Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers’ Union (PCCTU) held a strike for three periods at various colleges in the district today. The teachers, as part of their ongoing struggle in order to press upon their demands, suspended work for three periods during the teaching hours.

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Zimbabwe: Teachers Go On Strike

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AllAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Teachers Go On Strike

Teachers under the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) went on strike Monday, pressing government for a 500 percent salary hike. A heated meeting last Thursday at the unions Harare office resulted in the decision to down tools. On Monday teachers in Harare reported for duty at their respective schools, but soon after clocking in refused to teach.

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Illinois Professor holds out in ethics lawsuit

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Daily Egyptian: Professor holds out in ethics lawsuit

Faculty Association President Marvin Zeman is the last man standing in the battle against the Illinois inspector general’s accusation of non-compliance on a state-required ethics exam.

Of the four faculty members who initially refused to sign material labeling them non-compliant, two have signed and one was named compliant because he had trouble reading print on the Internet. Only Zeman is still seeking to settle a lawsuit with the inspector general, standing firmly against admitting non-compliance.

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U of Toronto, faculty association reach two-year agreement

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University, faculty association reach two-year agreement

University of Toronto faculty and librarians will receive a three per cent across-the-board salary increase plus benefits improvements as part of an agreement announced on Sept. 5.

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More heat for SIU leader

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Chicago Tribune: More heat for SIU leader

Southern Illinois University trustees rallied Monday around embattled university President Glenn Poshard, even as he faced a new allegation of plagiarism.

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Hawai’i: University settles with exiled professor

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Star Bulletin: University settles with exiled professor

The University of Hawaii has settled a lawsuit filed by a tenured UH-Manoa professor after he was banned from campus and forbidden to talk with all faculty members, staff and current or former students.

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Texas: Slade’s assistant details lavish spending

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Houston Chronicle: Slade’s assistant details lavish spending

TSU paid to send university President Priscilla Slade and her executive assistant to Maine, Costa Rica and Rome, where she stayed at the Four Seasons hotel, her former assistant testified today.

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U-Md. Responds to Possible Hate Crime

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Washington Post: U-Md. Responds to Possible Hate Crime

University of Maryland administrators moved quickly over the weekend to assure students and other members of the community that they were taking the possibility of a campus hate crime with the utmost seriousness.

“The University of Maryland will not tolerate discrimination, harassment or acts of hate,” university President C. D. Mote Jr. wrote Saturday in a letter posted on the university’s Web site.

Mote was responding to reports of a noose found hanging in a tree near a building that houses several African American campus organizations.

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AAUP Statement: Freedom in the Classroom (2007)

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Freedom in the Classroom (2007)

The report that follows, prepared by a subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved in June 2007 by the committee for publication.

The 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure affirms that “teachers are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject.” This affirmation was meant to codify understandings of academic freedom commonly accepted in 1940. In recent years these understandings have become controversial. Private groups have sought to regulate classroom instruction, advocating the adoption of statutes that would prohibit teachers from challenging deeply held student beliefs or that would require professors to maintain “diversity” or “balance” in their teaching.1 Committee A has established this subcommittee to assess arguments made in support of recent legislative efforts in this area.

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Reframing the Debate About What Professors Say

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Inside Higher Ed: Reframing the Debate About What Professors Say

From a legislative perspective, the movement for the “Academic Bill of Rights” hasn’t led to the enactments of bills that many professors feared. Hearings have been held, and bills introduced — and some have even advanced. But the movement hasn’t produced new laws. That’s not to say, though, that it hasn’t had an impact. Plenty of legislators, talk radio hosts, bloggers and others have picked up the arguments put forth by David Horowitz and other proponents of the measure — namely that many professors are not only liberal, but are committed to indoctrinating students and punishing those who don’t accept their views.

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Project of Publishers’ Association Is Criticized by Some of Its Members and Open-Access Advocates

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The Chronicle: Project of Publishers’ Association Is Criticized by Some of Its Members and Open-Access Advocates

The Association of American Publishers has landed in hot water with university presses and research librarians, as well as open-access advocates, thanks to a new undertaking that is billed as an attempt to “safeguard the scientific and medical peer-review process.”

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UW-Madison again sued by religious group over funding

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AP: UW-Madison again sued by religious group over funding

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the largest religious organization on campus are headed back to federal court.

The Roman Catholic Foundation has filed another federal lawsuit claiming university officials are engaging in discrimination by refusing to allow student funding for certain religious programming.

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Ave Maria Law School May Face Threat to Accreditation

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The Chronicle: Ave Maria Law School May Face Threat to Accreditation

The Ave Maria School of Law, which has been embroiled in a bitter dispute over a planned move from Michigan to Florida, may face a challenge to its continued accreditation, according to a letter released last week by the law school’s dean.

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Philosophy and Sexism

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Inside Higher Ed: Philosophy and Sexism

Sally Haslanger’s latest paper won’t appear until next year, in the journal Hypatia, but a version she posted online is attracting considerable attention by pointing out the limits of progress for women in philosophy.

Haslanger studied the gender breakdowns in the top 20 departments (based on The Philosophical Gourmet Report) and found that the percentage of women in tenure track positions was 18.7 percent, with two departments under 10 percent. She also looked at who published in top philosophy journals for the last five years and found that only 12.36 percent of articles were by women. Figures like that might not shock in some disciplines, but they stand out in the humanities. In history, for examples, a 2005 report found women making up 18 percent of full professors and 39 percent of assistant professors.

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