President of One of the Country’s Largest Community Colleges Resigns

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The Chronicle: President of One of the Country’s Largest Community Colleges ResignsThe president of Broward Community College, one of the largest two-year colleges in the country, resigned on Wednesday, effective December 19, because of what he called a deteriorating relationship with two members of the Board of Trustees.

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Draft Iran Resolution Would Restrict Students

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The New York Times: Draft Iran Resolution Would Restrict Students

The United States and three European allies have given Russia and China a draft text for a Security Council resolution against Iran’s nuclear program. The proposal includes the extraordinary step of preventing Iranian students from studying nuclear physics at foreign universities and colleges.

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Arkansas: UA chancellor gets on knees, begs for full funding

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Arkansas News Bureau: UA chancellor gets on knees, begs for full funding

The chancellor of the University of Arkansas’ flagship campus got down on his knees Wednesday and begged state legislators to fully fund his budget request and those of the other state colleges and universities.

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U. of Phoenix Loses Bid for Review of Decision That Reinstated High-Stakes Lawsuit

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The Chronicle: U. of Phoenix Loses Bid for Review of Decision That Reinstated High-Stakes Lawsuit

The University of Phoenix has lost another legal round in its attempt to derail a whistle-blower lawsuit that seeks billions of dollars in damages from the for-profit institution and its parent company, the Apollo Group Inc.

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In Response to Faculty Shortages, Program Offers a Five-Day Course to Train Business-School Professors

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The Chronicle: In Response to Faculty Shortages, Program Offers a Five-Day Course to Train Business-School Professors

Twenty-six business executives are attending a five-day crash course in teaching this week in the first of a series of programs aimed at alleviating a critical shortage of business-school faculty members.

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Gallaudet Protesters’ Camp Demolished, Injuring Some

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Washington Pose: Gallaudet Protesters’ Camp Demolished, Injuring Some

The tense, month-long standoff between Gallaudet University protesters and the school’s administration grew heated again yesterday as students occupied a campus building and school officials used a piece of construction equipment to try to clear a blockaded campus entrance.

The Chronicle: Building Takeover at Gallaudet Ends Peacefully, but Several Students Are Injured in Separate Clash

About 50 student protesters at Gallaudet University occupied and locked down an administrative building before dawn on Wednesday, and later that morning, a handful of protesters were injured when they attempted to prevent campus security officers from opening a gate that students had blockaded for about two weeks.

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AAUP Report Blames Colleges for Gender Inequity Among Professors

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Inside Higher Ed: New Measures for Gender Inequities

There are all kinds of reasons why one professor on a campus might earn more than another — seniority, rank, market differences for disciplines, to name but a few. What about sexism?

The Chronicle: AAUP Report Blames Colleges for Gender Inequity Among Professors

Just 39 percent of full-time professors in the 2005-6 academic year were women, says a report scheduled to be released today by the American Association of University Professors. The report lists how 1,445 colleges and universities measure up in four indicators of “gender equity” within the professoriate.

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South African anti-corruption campaigner refused entry at JFK

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Newsday: South African researcher, anti-corruption campaigner refused entry at JFK

ne of South Africa’s most respected anti-corruption campaigners and political analysts said Tuesday that U.S. authorities deported him under armed escort over the weekend after he arrived in New York for a series of meetings with organizations including the World Bank.

Adam Habib, executive director of the government-funded Human Science Research Council’s program on democracy and governance, said he was held for several hours after he arrived early Saturday and then was questioned about possible links to terror organizations.

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Hartnell strike ends

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Monterey Herald: Hartnell strike ends

Hartnell College teachers will return to their classrooms today after voting to accept a mediator-brokered contract Tuesday, putting to an end their five-day strike.

Teachers began voting in the afternoon, and at 8 p.m. the ballots were counted. A short time later Faculty Association President Christine Svendsen announced that a majority of the 115 teachers who cast ballots voted in favor of the contract.

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Professor files defamation lawsuit against Ohio University

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Akron Beacon Journal: Professor files defamation lawsuit against Ohio University

Ohio University has been sued by a faculty member who was relieved of his role as a graduate adviser as part of an investigation into plagiarism allegations.

The university published and distributed defamatory statements about Bhavin Mehta, a part-time associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, according to a copy of the lawsuit provided by Fred Gittes, Mehta’s attorney in Columbus.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the Ohio Court of Claims, seeks damages of more than $25,000.

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Searching for Answers at Gallaudet

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Inside Higher Ed: Searching for Answers at Gallaudet

As the fractious situation at Gallaudet University appears headed for some kind of resolution on Sunday, with a special meeting planned by the university’s Board of Trustees, supporters and critics of Jane K. Fernandes remain deeply divided over the core of the dispute about her possible ascension to the presidency.

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UNH Faculty Union Takes Protest Action

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WCSH6.com: UNH Faculty Union Takes Protest Action

The University of New Hampshire’s faculty union, which is in stalled contract talks, has voted to keep teaching, but to do nothing else not required by their job.

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SIU Faculty contract status in limbo

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Daily Egyptian: Faculty contract status in limbo

University administrators are awaiting a response from SIUC’s faculty union after making their final offer in contract talks last week, and it is unclear whether negotiations have reached the second stalemate in just as many months.

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Wales: Prepare for all-out strike over pay dispute, teaching union warns

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icWales.co.uk: Prepare for all-out strike over pay dispute, teaching union warns

TEACHERS’ union NASUWT is warning of all-out strike action at a Wales secondary school if talks today fail to resolve a long-running dispute over pay.

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Oaxacan Teachers Reject Return to School: SNTE Still on Strike!

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Sant Cruz IMC: Oaxacan Teachers Reject Return to School: SNTE Still on Strike!

Questions about the process and manner in which Union leadership initiated a controversial referendum to return to work led to a rejection of the ‘consulta’ and the continuation of the five-months-and-running teachers strike.

Prensa Latina: Mexico: Oaxaca School Year Unknown

Mexico, Oct 23 (Prensa Latina) Three days of consultations, a general assembly plus clashes with the teacher s union surround the teachers strike in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Detroit Free Press: MEXICO CITY: Teachers refuse to return

MEXICO CITY: Teachers refuse to return
The teachers union in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca rejected a plan Sunday to return to classes today and end a five-month strike. Delegates representing 70,000 workers decided to throw out a vote held last week showing that most teachers wished to return. Teachers will vote again this week, officials said. The conflict began as a teachers’ strike over pay and working conditions in May. It has since broadened into a coalition of more than a dozen groups. Some objected that union leader Enrique Rueda had failed to make the resignation of the state’s governor, Ulises Ruiz, a condition for returning to class. Ruiz is accused of rigging the 2004 election to win office and sending armed thugs against his opponents.

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Posted in International, K-12 issues, Strikes & Labor Disputes

University in Egypt embroiled in battle of the veil

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Middle East Times: University in Egypt embroiled in battle of the veil

Egyptian students whose faces are completely hidden behind the veil have been banished from the residence halls at Helwan University under threat of expulsion in what could be called the battle of the veil.

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Reaching Out at Hamilton

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Inside Higher Ed: Reaching Out at Hamilton

The controversy over Ward Churchill could have broken out at any number of campuses. He taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder and lectured for years all over the country. Typically, supporters of his views came to see him, and opponents paid little attention. That all changed last year, when — in advance of a talk scheduled for Hamilton College — people started to pay attention to Churchill, and especially to his comments comparing those who died on 9/11 to “little Eichmanns.”

The Hamilton talk never took place. College officials resisted political demands that they call the speech off, but ended up doing so because of death threats to Churchill. While the Churchill debate shifted back to Colorado, where officials are trying to fire him, Hamilton was left with its own questions. The Churchill invitation came not long after a dispute over another aborted invitation, that one to Susan Rosenberg, a one-time activist against the Vietnam War who was indicted but never tried for a 1981 armored car robbery that left a guard and two police officers dead. Some faculty members, and many conservative alumni, criticized the college, saying that in the name of academic freedom it was inviting to campus people who could incite, but not necessarily educate.

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Both Sides Return To Table In Hartnell Strike

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KSBW: Both Sides Return To Table In Hartnell Strike

Both sides returned to bargaining table on Monday as the strike involving instructors at Hartnell College continued.

Inside Higher Ed: Hartnell College Strike Continues

A faculty strike at Hartnell College is leaving administrators scrambling to fill in for instructors as the institution hunkers into survival mode. Its non-instructional staff is striving to fulfill the goal of keeping the California community college and all of its classes running while more than half of the faculty — among the lowest-paid community college faculties in the state — pickets outside.

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Salinas community college teachers go on strike

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Mercury News: Salinas community college teachers go on strike

Faculty members in Salinas walked out of their jobs this morning in what they call the first strike in a quarter-century at a California community college, according to Christine Svendsen of the Hartnell College Faculty Association.

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Women Turning Down Harvard’s Offers

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Inside Higher Ed: Women Turning Down Harvard’s Offers

While the proportion of women receiving tenure-track offers to join Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences rose for the third straight year in 2005-6, the share of women who accepted positions declined dramatically, according to an internal report.

In what the report’s author calls a “troubling reversal,” slightly more than 20 percent of those who accepted tenure-track offers in Harvard’s main undergraduate college last year were women, down from 40 percent in 2004-5. Thirty-nine percent of tenure-track offers were to women last year.

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