The Chronicle Herald: March puts Muhammad cartoons back up
Just like Wile E. Coyote, Halifax’s very own little cartoon controversy refuses to go away, a philosophy professor at Saint Mary’s University, said Thursday he has put cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad back on his office door because a university committee investigating his actions still hasn’t made a decision.
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Posted in Free speech
Daily Reflector: Message left at scene of Overlook Drive fires: ECU professor’s vehicle is one of two burned
“Wrong house sorry.”
The phrase, sloppily scribbled in blue paint, stained the sidewalk leading to the front stoop of the North Overlook Drive home Chris Belfiore and his East Carolina University roommates rent.
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Posted in Faculty
La Crosse Tribune: UW will not fund Catholic group: University no longer recognizes oldest and largest religious foundation on campus
niversity of Wisconsin-Madison will not recognize and fund the oldest and largest religious group on campus, for now, in a move that is sparking a debate over the separation of church and state.
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Posted in Students
Centre Daily Times: Christian university to open in State College
A small Christian university, in partnership with local clergy, will soon open a branch campus in the downtown, organizers said last week.
Eastern University, a 3,700-student institution based outside Philadelphia, is planning to offer at least four classes taught with a Christian perspective. The courses will start in January to coincide with the Penn State spring semester and will be held in downtown church buildings.
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The Chronicle: Junior faculty members prize collegiality and respect in their departments above high salaries, a survey has found.
Junior faculty members prize collegiality and respect in their departments above high salaries, a survey has found.
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Posted in Working conditions
The New York Times: Here’s Your Syllabus, and Your Condom
AMERICANS generally think of back-to-school as a time for discounts on laptops and backpacks, a mad dash for textbooks and CliffsNotes, a chance to stock up on wool tights and warm socks. Few associate it with latex and lubricant.
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Posted in Students
Houston Chronicle: Since deregulation, college tuition costs 39% more than 3 years ago
Tuition and fees at state-supported universities in Texas have jumped an average 39 percent in the three years since the Legislature gave college governing boards the authority to set their own tuition rates.
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Posted in Economics
The Press: Threatened university staff attack review
The head of the University of Canterbury’s threatened student services unit has broken her silence on the scathing review released this week.
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Posted in International
The Ann Arbor news: EMU damage control must begin in earnest Faculty, administration must put aside rancor
The recent dispute between Eastern Michigan University faculty and administration created many losers, but no clear winners – and EMU needs a win.
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Posted in Strikes & Labor Disputes
The Gainesville Sun: What happened to collegial governance at Florida?
Four years ago UF’s Strategic Plan declared that if UF hoped “to become a great public research university” it must have a “top-notch” college of arts and sciences. Less than two weeks ago, the Faculty Senate, with the president’s endorsement, passed the University’s newly revised Strategic Work Plan, which affirms again that UF must “increase faculty size,” particularly in the “core disciplines,” and thereby reduce our “student-faculty ratio,” which currently ties for last among 120 comparable universities.
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Posted in Unions
AP: Cal State Union Opens Student Contest to ‘Flunk’ Governor Schwarzenegger
California State University students can win a full year of in-state tuition to any of the system’s 23 campuses for creating the best Web site or 30-second video that argues for “flunking” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for his record on education.
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Posted in Government, Unions
The Tennessean: TSU sets priorities for deseg case funds
Calling it a “shot in the arm,” Tennessee State University President Melvin Johnson detailed Thursday how the university will spend $40 million from a settlement in a lengthy desegregation case.
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The Chronicle: Turkish Court Acquits Professor Accused of Insulting Turkishn
A University of Arizona professor was acquitted on Thursday by an Istanbul court of the charge of “denigrating Turkishness” in her latest novel. Elif Shafak had been charged with the offense under a controversial provision of Turkey’s penal code.
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Posted in Free speech, International
AP: Missouri State, ACLU settle lawsuit over women’s tennis
Missouri State University and the American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday announced a settlement in a lawsuit filed on behalf of four members of the women’s tennis team, whose program was eliminated for the 2006-07 school year.
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Posted in Equity
Inside Higher Ed: Beyond playing defense
As concerns about and criticism of American higher education have mounted in a series of reports in recent years, college leaders, fairly or not, have been portrayed as unresponsive if not outright obstructionist. That impression has been reinforced in the last few months by the forceful (and occasionally shrill) objections voiced by private college leaders about the work of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education, and the fact that higher education’s lead representative on the panel, David Ward of the American Council on Education, was alone among its 19 members in declining to sign the report.
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Posted in Government
The New York Times: Columbia Drops Talk by Iranian
A Columbia University dean invited the president of Iran to speak. He said yes. Less than 24 hours later, she withdrew the invitation.
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The Grand Rapids Press: College testing wouldn’t be smart
Afederal commission’s call for standardized testing at state universities is not a smart idea. Higher education doesn’t require a government accountability system like K-12. Congress should reject this portion of the group’s recent report, and pursue more sensible recommendations regarding access, cost and competition.
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Inside Higher Ed: No God Left Behind — Why Not?
By William G. Durden
…In the nation’s current zeal to account for all transfer of teaching and insight through quantitative, standardized testing, perhaps we should advance quantitative measurement into other areas of human meaning and definition. Why leave work undone?
I suggest, for example, that a federal commission propose an accountability initiative for those of faith (not such a wild notion as an increasing number of politicians are calling the traditional separation of church and state unhealthy for the nation). This effort should be titled No God Left Behind. …
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Posted in Accountability
The Guardian: Lecturers to get counselling helpline
The first dedicated national counselling telephone support line for university and college lecturers is being set up to meet an increased demand for such a service.
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Posted in Faculty, International
Daily Press: Students suspend boycott of decision to allow men
More than 200 Randolph-Macon Woman’s College students suspended their weeklong boycott of classes to protest the decision to allow men to the 115-year-old women’s college.
