AP: Pa. high court to decide if Paterno’s salary will be public
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided to review a lower-court ruling that would make public the salaries of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and other high-ranking university officials.
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Posted in Salary/Economic Benefits
AP: High court turns back challenge to La. College’s president
The state Supreme Court has refused to revive a lawsuit challenging Joe Aguillard’s selection as president of Louisiana College.
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Italy’s minister of universities and research on Tuesday called for sweeping changes in the governance of his country’s higher-education system, describing the current governance system as a “big bordello,” with lax standards for the accreditation of new institutions and degree programs.
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Boston Globe: Few minorities get the reins in college football
The Chronicle: More Minority Candidates Are Interviewed for Football-Coaching Jobs, but Few Get Hired, Report Says
College athletics officials are interviewing increasing numbers of minority applicants for jobs as head football coaches, but white candidates are still landing most of the top positions, according to a report scheduled to be released today by the Black Coaches Association.
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The Onion: Florida State University To Phase Out Academic Operations By 2010
Bowing to pressure from alumni, students, and a majority of teaching professors of Florida State University, athletic director Dave Hart Jr. announced yesterday that FSU would completely phase out all academic operations by the end of the 2010 school year in order to make athletics the school’s No. 1 priority.From EWR: Just wondering if anybody’s paying attention to this stuff…
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USA Today: Gender still hinders women scientists
Gender bias — not any biological difference between the sexes — stifles the careers of female scientists at the nation’s universities, says a new report that calls for wide-ranging steps to level the playing field.
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Toronto Star: MBA students likelier to cheat
Who says cheaters never prosper?
MBA students in Canada and the United States are more likely to cheat than students in other disciplines because they believe it is how the business world operates — and because they believe their peers cheat, according to a new study.
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The Guardian: Clinton’s treasury secretary to be FT columnist
The Financial Times has hired Larry Summers, the former US treasury secretary who was forced to resign from Harvard University in a row over alleged sexism.
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AP: New Jersey senator denies federal report
A powerful New Jersey politician accused of being paid for a job that required no work at a scandal-ridden state university denied the report from a federal monitor who had investigated the school’s finances.
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The Chronicle: ONLINE DIVISION FOR SALE</a.
Touro College is looking for a buyer to acquire its 6,000-student online division, Touro International University. Parties involved in the sale say the deal could be the first to test the market value of a stand-alone online institution since Congress made it easier this year for colleges that offer only distance-education courses to participate in the federal student-aid programs.
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Palm Beach Post: FAU students learn value of free speech
Florida Atlantic University students gave up their First Amendment rights Monday for a Quiznos sub, a slice of pizza, and a passport to a fake country where free speech is prohibited. The exercise, held in a cordoned-off part of campus that represented the “Kingdom of the Socialist States of the People’s Republic of Boca Raton,” was part of a Constitution Day event to teach students the value of free speech.
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Inside Higher Ed:
Charles Miller, chairman of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education, delivered the final version of the panel’s report to the secretary herself, Margaret Spellings, on Tuesday. The report, “A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education,” is little changed from the final draft that the commission’s members approved by an 18 to 1 vote last month. Apart from a controversial change in language that softened the panel’s support for open source software, the only other alterations were the addition of charts and several “best practices” case studies, which examine the California State University system’s campaign to reach out to underserved students in their communities, the National Center for Academic Transformation’s efforts to improve the efficiency of teaching and learning, and the innovative curriculum at Neumont University (yes, Neumont University), a for-profit institution in Salt Lake City. Spellings said in a statement that she looks forward to “announcing my plans for the future of higher education” next Tuesday at a previously announced luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington.
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Inside Higher Ed: Bias or Interest?
When polled privately, professors tend to explain gender gap in sciences as a matter of choices, not discrimination.
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Sacramento Bee: CSU, union aim for mediation
California State University administrators and the union representing faculty members have been unable to reach an agreement on a new salary plan.
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Inside Higher Ed: Faculty Moderates
New analysis suggests that the biggest trend in professorial politics is a shift to the center in many disciplines
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Inside Higher Ed: Long-Fought Win for Gay Rights
Missouri State University’s board on Friday added sexual orientation to the list of factors on which the institution barred bias. The 5-3 vote followed debate that included denunciations of the gay “sexual lifestyle” and years of intense discussion of the issue.
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Daily Herald: Ex-BYU professor teaching at UVSC
At Boston College, where former-BYU professor Jeffrey Nielsen earned his master’s degree, there’s a saying that all good theologians get condemned at least twice.
“Most philosophers who play that gadfly role get in trouble,” he says. “If you are going to be good and provocative, then you are going to raise some questions that make people uncomfortable. Hopefully in the long term, people realize that’s a good thing.”
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The Chronicle News Blog: Health-Sciences University in N.J. Hired Politician to Read Newspapers, Report Says
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey created a “no-show job” for the powerful chairman of the State Senate’s Budget and Appropriations Committee that essentially allowed him to “lobby himself” for taxpayer funds, according to the latest report by a federal monitor appointed to oversee the finances of the embattled public health-sciences university.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Universities Cash In on the Business of Sports, but Fall Short Academically
The Wall Street Journal published a special report (subscription required) on Saturday about the “Business of Sports,” including several articles that touched on intercollegiate athletics. One article reported that more than 300 universities offer degrees in sports management but criticized many of the programs, saying that they often lack academic substance and fail to help students land jobs.
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The Chronicle: ederal Arbitrator Orders Tribal College in New Mexico to Reinstate 20 Dismissed Employees
The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs was ordered this month to reinstate 20 laid-off union faculty and staff members at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, after a federal arbitrator determined that the layoffs violated employee contracts.
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