New Paltz Student Leaders Win Injunction

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Inside Higher Ed

A federal judge has issued an injunction ordering the State University of New York at New Paltz to reinstate two student government leaders who were suspended because of allegations (which they deny) that they harassed a university administrator. The judge ruled that the students had a substantial chance of winning their challenge the university’s judicial process in their case because they were denied the right to have a lawyer present at hearings. While the decision noted that this is not a general right in student disciplinary hearings, it could be a requirement for fair due process when the charges could also lead — as in this case — to criminal charges. New Paltz issued a statement that it was disappointed with that part of the ruling, pleased with the other parts (which did not find violations of due process) and was studying its options.

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Economists Change Stance on Job Notices

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Inside Higher Ed: Economists Change Stance on Job Notices

The American Economic Association — facing criticism over its commitment to diversity — has revised a policy that prevented colleges from indicating in job announcements that they welcomed applications from women or members of minority groups.

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More Jobs, Fewer New Ph.D.’s

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Inside Higher Ed: More Jobs, Fewer New Ph.D.’s

Arnita A. Jones almost gushed when she told historians about how many new Ph.D.’s she was chatting up at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta who were telling her, “I have four interviews tomorrow,” or “I’ve got three interviews today.”

Just a few years ago, one didn’t hear so many positive reports from job seekers. But if the mood was generally upbeat about the job market, there was also a clear realization that historians don’t have it easy when it comes to finding a job. Jones immediately followed her statement by imploring graduate programs not to increase their enrollments. It’s better to have a glut of positions than a glut of historians, she said.

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Historians, War, Responsibility

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Inside Higher Ed: Historians, War, Responsibility

Sometimes it’s not just what you are against, but how you are against it. On Saturday, every member who spoke at the business meeting of the American Historical Association expressed opposition to the war in Iraq and support for free speech.

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Israel: Teachers to strike Thursday over lag in wage agreement

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Harretz: Teachers to strike Thursday over lag in wage agreement

Teachers across the country will strike Thursday morning to protest the Finance Ministry’s refusal to hold negotiations to finalize a collective settlement on wages. teachers’ associations said Wednesday.

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Boston teacher threaten strike

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The Boston Globe: Teachers union threatens 1-day strike

The Boston Teachers Union yesterday threatened a one-day strike as early as Feb. 15 to protest a lack of progress in contract negotiations.

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Nepal: Temporary Teachers to Resume Strike from Jan 10

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The Himalayan: Temporary Teachers to Resume Strike from Jan 10

Temporary teachers are all set to stage fresh protests from January 10. The teachers will begin their agitation from Ratnapark. The Temporary Teachers Struggle Central Committee (TTSCC) said on Friday that the recently-approved Education Bill was in violation of the agreement reached between officials of the Education Ministry, representatives of the eight parties and the Temporary Teachers’ Struggle Central Committee (TTSCC) on December 24.

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E-mail views split on fighting Prop 2: Coleman, regents deluged with messages; president’s speech drew more fire than praise

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The Ann Arbor News: E-mail views split on fighting Prop 2: Coleman, regents deluged with messages; president’s speech drew more fire than praise

In the days immediately after Michigan voters passed a ban on race and gender preferences in university admissions, University of Michigan leaders were swamped with e-mails from around the state and country urging them to follow the law and not fight the will of the voters.

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Huge Salary for Alabama Coach Raises Questions as Congress and NCAA Convene

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Birmingham News: <a href=”Saban pay too steep, says ex-UA trustee

Nick Saban’s record-setting salary, $4 million a year, is too much and sends the wrong message about the University of Alabama’s mission, UA Trustee Emeritus Garry Neil Drummond said Wednesday.

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Politicians, tycoons join OSU entourage

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The Plain Dealer: Politicians, tycoons join OSU entourage

Friday morning will just be another day closer to the weekend for working stiffs, but for an elite group of business tycoons, well-connected politicians and select Ohio State University employees, Jan. 5 will bring something else entirely. It will be time to go bowling.

That’s when a pair of chartered jets carrying more than 300 members of the university’s official travel party will lift off, winging away for a four-night stay at a luxury Arizona hotel and tickets to the BCS National Championship Game between Ohio State and Florida.

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Former Morris Brown president sentenced to 5 years probation

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Former Morris Brown president sentenced to 5 years probation

Morris Brown College’s former president and financial aid director avoided prison time in a sentencing hearing in federal court Wednesday.

U.S. District Court Judge Julie Carnes sentenced Dolores Cross to five years probation, 12 months home confinement and 500 hours in community service for her role in a financial aid scheme at the historically black college in Atlanta. Cross, 70, pleaded guilty in May to one count of embezzlement for defrauding the government of financial aid money, admitting to knowingly accepting money for students who were not enrolled to try to ward off the school’s impending financial crisis. Cross will pay $13,942 in restitution to the government, the amount the federal Department of Education said it is owed stemming from the fraud charge, and a $3,000 fine. Cross and former financial aid director Parvesh Singh were charged in a 34-count federal indictment in 2004 for misappropriating student financial aid.

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Higher ed for terror fighters

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Indianapolis Star: Higher ed for terror fighters

Purdue to lead $1.65 million effort to improve Southern Indiana homeland security facility

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Little Talk of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

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Inside Higher Ed: Little Talk of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

The U.S. Supreme Court may have unanimously squelched a First Amendment challenge on the part of law schools to a 1994 law tying federal funding to campus access for military recruiters back in March. But it left one door open for opponents of the so-called Solomon Amendment: “Law schools remain free under the statute to express whatever views they may have on the military’s congressionally mandated employment policy, all the while retaining eligibility for federal funds,” the court ruled in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR).

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Students and Faculty Members at Art Institute Criticize Administrators’ Actions as Censorship

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Chronicle of Higher Education: Students and Faculty Members at Art Institute Criticize Administrators’ Actions as Censorship

Students and faculty members are criticizing what they call a pattern of censorship of student projects at the Art Institute of California at San Francisco, including the confiscation last month of several hundred copies of a student magazine with racially themed content.

ABC 7: Student Kicked Out Of School Over Art Project

A San Francisco student is accusing the Art Institute of California of censoring his work. Simone Mitchell wrote a piece criticizing the treatment of African-Americans in the media. It was too much for the institute. The story was removed from an internal magazine.

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A Campaign for Antiwar Academics

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Inside Higher Ed: A Campaign for Antiwar Academics

As a student years ago, Joseph Nevins always considered himself politically active. He had his range of causes — East Timor stabilization, teaching assistant unionization, immigrant rights — and can still remember the rallies, marches and meetings.

Now, as a fourth-year assistant professor at Vassar College, Nevins is again involved in a political action, this one a campaign to get faculty across the country to donate money each month to a large antiwar group until the Iraq War ends. He and a Vassar colleague, Katherine Hite, co-signed a letter sent out last month that asked faculty at the college to support United for Peace and Justice, the antiwar coalition that coordinates local and national events.

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The New Top Fed for Higher Ed

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Inside Higher Ed: The New Top Fed for Higher Ed

It’s a few days before Christmas, and Sara Martinez Tucker has been running nonstop in the few days since the U.S. Senate confirmed her as the new U.S. under secretary for education. Emerging from back-to-back-to-back meetings, she arrives a few minutes late for an early-afternoon interview with a reporter, but when an aide suggests that she take a few minutes to catch her break, and perhaps grab a bite, Tucker demurs. “If I stop running, I’ll fall down,” she says.

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An American University for Iraq but Not in Baghdad

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The New York Times: An American University for Iraq but Not in Baghdad

It would be an ambitious project even in a Middle Eastern country not embroiled in war: build an American-style university where classes are taught in English, teachers come from around the world and graduates compete for lucrative jobs in fields like business and computer science.

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Israel: Student strike shuts 10 university, college campuses

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Haaretz.com: University and college students strike over likely tuition hike

University students were intensifying their campaign against the Shochat Committee on Reform in Higher Education by shutting down ten institutions of higher learning on Wednesday.

The Jerusalem Post: Student strike shuts 10 university, college campuses

Frustration at recent Treasury decisions reached the boiling point on Wednesday as teachers decided to open schools late on Thursday in what unions are calling a “warning strike,” and student associations shut down university and college campuses across the country.

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Michigan: Racial ban back on for 3 colleges

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Detroit News: Racial ban back on for 3 colleges

A federal appeals court ruled Friday night that Michigan’s three largest universities must immediately remove race and gender consideration from their admissions and financial aid decisions and fully comply with Proposal 2.

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CSU Faculty to Begin Picketing at All Campuses This Month

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KPBS: CSU Faculty to Begin Picketing at All Campuses This Month

California State University faculty members will begin picketing at all CSU campuses when students return from winter break in a couple of weeks. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis has more.

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