The Chronicle: Cambodian Professor Is Fired and Jailed for Teaching His Anti-Government Textbook
A Cambodian professor who has written a book criticizing the country’s political leaders has been fired from his job, arrested, and charged with criminal disinformation.
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Posted in Academic freedom, International
The Chronicle: AAUP Proposes New Protections for Adjunct Professors With Long-Term Employment
In a proposal for updating its stance on part-time faculty appointments, the American Association of University Professors suggests that colleges offer increased protections for adjuncts after several years of employment and written terms of employment for all adjuncts.
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Posted in Contingent labor
The Southern Illinoisan: SIUC faculty discusses contract negotiations
While striking is always a legal option, the vice president of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Faculty Association said no one has ever mentioned taking such action as the union and administration work through a stall in the latest round of contract talks.
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Posted in Campaigns & Contracts
247gay.com: California Med School Criticized for Banning Gay Student Groups
The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Monday publicly decried the decision of the Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, a private medical school in Vallejo, CA, to ban a student group that focuses on the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients and students.
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Posted in Equity
The Ann Arbor News: EMU faculty sticks to pickets
Students at Eastern Michigan University began their second week of classes this morning still not knowing when striking professors would return to the classroom.
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Posted in Uncategorized
The State Hornet: Faculty association: Stop the Rip-offs
Almost a year after receiving a 3.5 percent raise, California State University faculty members are still fighting for better pay.
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Posted in Campaigns & Contracts
Inside Higher Ed: Solidarity
Cary Nelson offers an inside look at the faculty strike at Eastern Michigan University.
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Posted in Strikes & Labor Disputes
Inside Higher Ed: The Standardization of College Teaching
By Shari Wilson
As an undergraduate at a state university, I read the schedule of classes long before I had to register. I scanned instructors’ names first. Next I considered courses, and finally I would take the action that would decide my class schedule — I went to the university bookstore and looked at the textbooks each professor required
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Posted in Academics
UCU: Over 50s have lowest morale and are most keen to quit academe
Age discrimination is rife across our universities. Staff aged over 50 are the unhappiest in their jobs and almost half (43 per cent) would quit now if they could.
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Posted in Faculty
Upsdie Down World: Taking Notes in Oaxaca, Mexico
Oaxaca is wide awake. While many of us seem to be in a deeply unconscious state, oblivious to the world’s realities of violence, exploitation and oppression, the people of Oaxaca are rising up. Tired of their historical suffering under policies of domination, the people have organized a liberation movement that is opening eyes around the world. The movement in Oaxaca is a current, inspiring demonstration of popular power, and although every people’s struggle must create its own path, Oaxaqueños are offering us valuable lessons about organization, solidarity, and resistance.
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Posted in International, Strikes & Labor Disputes
ClickOnDetroit.com: Detroit Teacher Strike Could Soon Be Coming To An End
Negotiators from the Detroit Federation of Teachers union and the Detroit school district met overnight Monday with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Local 4 has learned there is a proposal on the table. Negotiators will present that proposal to the union executive board later Tuesday morning.
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Posted in Strikes & Labor Disputes
People’s Daily Online: Palestinian teachers suspend strike after deal with government
Palestinian Ministry of Education on Thursday managed to stop the Palestinian Teachers Union’s strike by reaching an agreement with the late
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Posted in Strikes & Labor Disputes
Detroit Free Press: State steps into teacher strike
Negotiators were back at the bargaining table in Detroit late Monday, trying to reach a deal just hours after Gov. Jennifer Granholm called for a fact finder to intervene as talks stalled in a two-week strike that has shuttered schools indefinitely.
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Posted in Strikes & Labor Disputes
American-Statesman: U.S. education chief backs panel’s call for college reforms
U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, visiting Austin over the weekend, all but endorsed a special panel’s sweeping recommendations to increase financial aid for college students, measure student learning with standardized tests and require colleges to disclose data on graduation rates, spending and other matters.
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Posted in Government
The Detroit News: Defiant teachers vow to stay out
Public school teachers waved homemade signs and chanted “no contract, no work” at various Detroit schools this morning, risking fines or jail time by defying a judge’s order requiring them to return to work today.
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Posted in K-12 issues, Strikes & Labor Disputes
Inside Higher Ed:
Twelve of the 20 members of the U.S. Senate’s education committee have written a letter to Secretary Margaret Spellings questioning the Education Department’s plan to use an upcoming “negotiated rule making” process to consider implementing some of the recommendations of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education. The bipartisan letter, signed by Sens. Michael B. Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), the committee’s chairman and senior Democrat, as well as 5 other lawmakers from each party, said the senators “have concerns” about including the commission’s recommendations in the regulatory process. “Although we have not yet received the final report, the draft recommendations approved by a majority of the Commission members are extremely broad and will likely require legislative action before they could be appropriately included in regulations,” the lawmakers wrote.
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Posted in Government
Inside Higher Ed: Cover-up at Gonzaga
President who left in 1969 had been told by police that he had 24 hours to leave town or face arrest over abuse allegations.
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Posted in Administration
Inside Higher Ed: A ‘Perplexing’ Tenure Decision
rofessor denied tenure forced to leave Oakland U., despite widespread support from colleagues
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Posted in Tenure & Promotion
Inside Higher Ed: Gun Rights vs. College Rights
In a ruling that legal experts say could threaten the autonomy of public universities and the safety of their students, the Utah Supreme Court ruled Friday that the University of Utah cannot bar guns from its campus.
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Posted in Working conditions
Inside Higher Ed: Fraying of Academic Freedom
Brigham Young places professor on leave over 9/11; Southern Maine shuts exhibit by man who killed police officer; and more incidents.
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Posted in Academic freedom
