The Chronicle: Russian University Is on Alert After Bomb Damage and Discovery of Second Unexploded Device
The most highly regarded university in Russia was under tightened security on Sunday, a day after a rudimentary bomb damaged its main building and another bomb failed to detonate in what authorities say was an attempted arson.
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Posted in International
The Chronicle: Laureate Education Takes First Step Into Middle East
Laureate Education Inc. has made its first foray into the Middle East, in a partnership with Istanbul Bilgi University, one of the leading private institutions in Turkey.
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Posted in Corporate University
Post-Gazette: Dr. Berube: Professor the right loves to hate
Hockey is a bruising sport.
So are the campus culture wars.
It seems oddly appropriate, then, that some of the biggest body blows from the left these days are coming from a Penn State University scholar and amateur hockey player who’s as comfortable slamming a puck into the net as he is dissecting the racial context of a James Baldwin novel.
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Posted in Faculty
New York Daily News: Free speech sacred – as long as you’re a liberal?
In a chaotic brawl, Columbia student protesters stormed the stage at Lerner Hall on Oct. 4 to stop a speech by Jim Gilchrist, head of the anti-illegal immigration Minuteman Project.
But less-publicized assaults on free speech also mar campus life, students say. In one incident, a Columbia senior and Marine reservist was heckled and branded a “baby killer” by anti-war activists because of his outspoken pro-war views.
Matt Sanchez, 35, who returned to Columbia to complete his education, said he was angrily confronted late last year by three students at a table set up by the Military Society, a student club, in front of Low Library. “Columbia says it cherishes free speech, diversity and tolerance,” Sanchez said. “But they don’t live up to their own values when it comes to members of the military or others they disagree with.”
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Posted in Free speech
New York Daily News: Wild sex 101
Famed as a hotbed of debate over academic freedom, New York’s most elite school is also a playpen for sexual hijinks, sophomoric antics and the wacky indulgences of the children of the rich.
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Posted in Students
Los Angeles Times: Affirmative action era is over, longtime foe says
Former UC regent Ward Connerly, buoyed by success of Michigan measure, is eyeing new targets.
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Posted in Equity
The State News: Students protest Military Commissions Act of 2006
She adjusted her orange jumpsuit and pulled off the black sack that covered her face early Tuesday afternoon. Being locked in a cage was a new experience for her, one she said gave her a new outlook on life.
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Posted in Protests
: UW Catholic group files suit
The Catholic group that serves the University of Wisconsin-Madison student population filed a lawsuit earlier this month against University of Wisconsin officials and members of the UW Board of Regents. The suit, filed by the UW Roman Catholic Foundation, claims that a university policy discriminates against religious groups.
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Posted in Equity
Daily Mail: Christian university students face discrimination, say bishops
Christian students at many British universities are facing “considerable opposition and discrimination”, church leaders have claimed.
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Posted in Equity
The New York Times: Public Colleges as ‘Engines of Inequality’
Democrats who ran for Congress this fall made the cost of college a big campaign issue. Now that they’ve won control of the House and Senate, they can prepare to act swiftly on at least some of the factors that have priced millions of poor and working-class Americans right out of higher education. The obvious first step would be to boost the value of the federal Pell Grant program — a critical tool in keeping college affordable that the federal government has shamefully ceased to fund at a level that meets the national need.
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Posted in Equity
Diverse Magazine: Murder, Fear Follow Iraqi Professors On Campus
Violence and lawlessness in Iraq is “dismantling” the country’s higher education system and creating a climate of terror on campuses, according to Iraqi professors who attended the Middle East Studies Association’s conference Sunday.
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Posted in Faculty
The Daily Evergreen: Regents approve police patrols
The WSU Board of Regents voted Friday to make a permanent change to the law that allows police unrestricted access to residence halls. The regents unanimously passed a motion that changes the legal definition of guests to residence halls. The regents solidified the law they made under emergency rules in September, citing students’ safety as a paramount concern.
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Posted in Uncategorized
Houston Chronicle: Slade faces claims of lying
Former Texas Southern University President Priscilla Slade may have lied to the grand jury that later indicted her, Harris County prosecutors told a judge Monday.
Prosecutor Donna Goode sought to unseal Slade’s grand jury testimony so that Slade’s former assistant can review it for inconsistencies.
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Posted in Administration
Inside Higher Ed: From Bad to Worse for David Horowitz
Pennsylvania panel strips language he liked and affirms that students aren’t oppressed for political views. He decries “cabal” for “stealing” report.
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Posted in Government
The Daily Free Press: BU group offers white scholarship
Looking to draw attention to what they call the “worst form of bigotry confronting America today,” Boston University’s College Republicans are circulating an application for a “Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship” that requires applicants be at least 25 percent Caucasian.
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Posted in Equity
The New York Times: Erasing Divide, College Leaders Take to Blogging
Some university presidents are vaulting the digital and generational divide and starting their own blogs.
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Posted in Administration
CAUT Bulletin: Ontario Universities Forcing Retirees Out as Mandatory Retirement Ends
Ontario’s public universities are applying retirement rules differently, leaving some academic staff with no choice but to retire when they turn 65, and others with the choice to keep working.
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Posted in Equity
Brock UFA: BUFA Sets Strike Date for December 5, 2006
The BUFA Executive, in consultation with the Strike Action Committee and the Negotiating Team, has decided on a strike date of December 5 in the event that a negotiated settlement has not been reached by this time. In the interim, BUFA’s intention is to continue negotiating in an attempt to move the two sides closer together before meeting again with the mediator, Mr. Kevin Burkett, on December 3.
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Posted in Strikes & Labor Disputes
CAUT Bulletin: B.C. Group Calls for Suspension of Lansbridge Operations
Academic staff in British Columbia are calling on the provincial government to suspend operations at Lansbridge University following revelations that owner Michael Lo was illegally offering degrees at a sister school in the province.
The Vancouver Sun reported last month that Kingston College, a private post-secondary institution also owned by Lo, had offered degrees in B.C. in partnership with the American University in London.
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Posted in Corporate University
CAUT Bulletin: Arar Report a Victory for Civil Liberties, CAUT Says
A commission of inquiry’s long-awaited report about the behaviour of Canadian officials in what happened to Maher Arar has created a national reassessment of the proper role of security forces in Canada today.
The public inquiry headed by Justice Dennis O’Connor found that American officials “very likely” based their decision to send Arar to Syria on inaccurate information supplied by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, that police and spy agencies sent “mixed signals” to the Syrians about wanting Arar back, and that the Mounties misled senior government officials on their role in the case.
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Posted in Unions
