WCAX: UNH accepts factfinder report in faculty contract dispute
There is a break in the impasse in contract talks between faculty and the University of New Hampshire.
The university’s negotiating team has accepted an independent factfinder’s report that recommends a compromise in the contract dispute.
Negotiations have been underway since the spring of 2006, and have been stuck on wages and benefits.
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Posted in Campaigns & Contracts
The Labradorian: Possibility of strike at Memorial University worries students
Professors at Memorial University are poised to go on strike and the students are forced to ponder what is ahead of them.
Memorial University’s Faculty Association (MUNFA) has been in talks with the university’s administration for over a year. Recently, a conciliator wrote a report enabling MUNFA to take a strike vote whenever they want.
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Posted in Strikes & Labor Disputes
Chicago Tribune: Court says SIU can’t keep lid on contracts
Southern Illinois University can not keep the press and public from scrutinizing employment contracts of school President Glenn Poshard and other officials, an Illinois Appellate Court ruled Thursday in a case with broad implications for public access to government records.
The Southern: Court rules against SIU in employment contracts case
Southern Illinois University can’t withhold public access to the employment contracts of SIU President Glenn Poshard and other officials, an Illinois appeals court ruled.
A lower court earlier sided with the school in the lawsuit, filed when SIU rejected a request under the state’s Freedom of Information Act. The law requires disclosure of most public documents.
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Posted in Administration
The Chronicle: Newest Battlefield of Middle East Conflict Is Tenure Case at Barnard College
Scholars of anthropology and of Middle East studies are rallying around Nadia Abu El-Haj, an assistant professor of anthropology at Barnard College whose tenure bid, like that of Norman G. Finkelstein at DePaul University earlier this year, has become the subject of an online skirmish in the larger conflict over research on the Middle East.
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Posted in Tenure & Promotion
The Arizona Republic: Faculty balks at signing ethics forms
The governing board of Maricopa Community Colleges wants faculty members to sign several forms designed to ensure ethics and accountability, but teachers are questioning whether to comply.
Washington Post: Naval Academy Sets Tough Wartime Rules
Less off-campus hours and increased study hours among new policies set by school following incidents of excessive drinking and high-profile sex-assault
The U.S. Naval Academy’s new superintendent announced yesterday stricter rules for midshipmen, declaring that students at the Annapolis military academy need to spend more time preparing for war and less time on distracting extracurricular activities.
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Posted in Students
Philadelphia Inquirer: Drexel suitor likes breaking ground
Angelo Tsakopoulos has become wealthy configuring the landscape of California’s capital, developing communities of thousands of homes. Few people since the gold rush have had more influence on reshaping the region.
But before the 71-year-old developer departs the planet, he wants to do something really big: attract a private university to this expanding region of 2.2 million people, which has few such institutions. He and his partners are willing to donate nearly two square miles of land north of Sacramento to entice the right school.
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Posted in Corporate University
Houston Chronicle: Slade wants her case dismissed
Prosecution denies the claim that it engaged in unethical and illegal behavior
Defense attorneys for ousted TSU President Priscilla Slade filed a motion Thursday to dismiss the case against her, saying prosecutors’ behavior was illegal and unethical.
The district attorney’s office may have violated the law by revealing grand jury information, and may have violated state ethics rules by secretly videotaping meetings with Slade and others, including a member of Bush’s Cabinet, Slade’s attorney Mike DeGeurin said.
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Posted in Administration, Legal issues
Salt Lake Tribune: Another college president is put on paid leave
The president of the Mountainland Applied Technology College was suspended with pay Friday in the wake of a draft audit that prompted action against another education official earlier this week.
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Posted in Administration
Tallahassee Democrat: Audit cites FAMU for 13 problems
A state audit showed finacial reporting problems at Florida A&M University, putting further pressure on the beleaguered university.
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Union-Tribune: University reviews are unusual, official says
The University of California San Diego is undergoing an IRS audit – an uncommon procedure that may become more prevalent in the coming months.
UCSD officials declined to provide many details, except to say the Internal Revenue Service will spend several months reviewing the university’s payroll, accounts payable, student accounting and other financial transactions processed in 2005. The campus characterized the audit as “routine.”
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Saturday Gazette-Mail: Teacher says he was fired for criticizing UC, not sex
A popular University of Charleston administrator and teacher, who says he was fired last month for having sex with students, claims student-teacher relationships are common practice and he was singled out because he criticized the school.
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Posted in Employment rights
Christian Science Monitor: Radical outspoken professors: scholars or activists?
You don’t have to be a crusading right-winger to recognize that University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, who compared the victims of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack to Nazis, is an extremist, an ideologue whose scholarship is less than objective.
Nor do you have to be a flame-throwing left-winger to agree that the university where he was once director of the ethnic-studies department shouldn’t have ditched him the way it did. It needed to do much, much more.
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Posted in Academic freedom, Free speech
Columbus Dispatch: Governor unifies higher ed
Saying he wants “a new Ohio birthright” of access to a high-quality, affordable college education, Gov. Ted Strickland ordered yesterday that the state’s public higher-education institutions become part of a unified system.
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Posted in Government
Rocky Mountain News: Firing of prof at Colorado Christian puts focus on Christ and capitalism
What would Jesus teach about capitalism, and what would be on His assigned reading list?
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Posted in Academic freedom, Employment rights
Inside Higher Ed: He Didn’t Worship the Market
When Colorado Christian University notified Andrew Paquin, an assistant professor of global studies, that his contract would not be renewed, he knew that not being sufficiently guided by Christ wasn’t the problem. But it might have been that he wasn’t sufficiently capitalist.
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Posted in Employment rights
Inside Higher Ed: Leaks From Antioch
Critics of the decision to suspend the operations of Antioch College unveiled a new tool Wednesday: a Web site of documents, many of them leaked, about Antioch University management.
The Antioch Papers Web site contains documents sent to some alumni who have been critical of the university administration. The documents include materials prepared for the university board, materials prepared by the university chancellor, and reports about governance and the possible future of the college.
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Posted in Corporate University
The Chronicle News Blog: For-Profit College Could Face Return of $4.5-Million in Student-Aid Funds
Interboro Institute, a for-profit college in New York City owned by the EVCI Career Colleges Holding Corporation, could be required to repay $2.5-million to the U.S. Department of Education and $2-million to the State of New York in student-aid funds that it may not have been entitled to, the company announced today.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Antioch Professors Sue to Block Board From Closing the College
Faculty members at Antioch College have sued the Board of Trustees of Antioch University — the six-campus system that includes the college — in an effort to block the planned shuttering of the college. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in an Ohio court by 20 Antioch faculty members, is accompanied by a request for an injunction that, if granted by the court, would bar the board from closing the college while the lawsuit proceeds.
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Posted in Corporate University
The Chronicle News Blog: Alumni Group Seeks to Deny Tenure to Middle Eastern Scholar at Barnard College
Controversial research on Israel and the Palestinian territories has become the basis of yet another campaign to prevent a professor from winning tenure. A group of Barnard College alumni has drafted an online petition asking their alma mater to deny tenure to Nadia Abu El-Haj, an assistant professor of anthropology whose scholarship, they say, is flawed and skewed against Israel.
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Posted in Tenure & Promotion
