UGA provost turns up heat over “day off”

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UGA provost turns up heat over “day off”

Some University of Georgia students might have gotten an extra day in the sun last week, but it’s the university’s administrators who are burning over faculty decisions to cancel classes the day before fall break.

UGA Provost Arnett Mace sent out a firm edict this week to university deans to canvass their faculty and see how many called off Wednesday classes in anticipation of the two-day break and the annual Georgia-Florida football game in Jacksonville last weekend.

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Faculty revolt at Indiana U

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Faculty revolt at Indiana U

Faculty members at Indiana University’s flagship campus say they need a chancellor. Adam Herbert is finding out how little patience they have left as he approaches a third straight year without selecting a permanent Bloomington campus chancellor — a powerful position that carries with it the responsibilities of senior vice president of academic affairs for all Indiana University campuses. “Incompetent,” “overwhelmed” and “indecisive” were all words used by various professors and students to describe Herbert in interviews Thursday.

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British Columbia: Shrugging off the government’s Pyrrhic victory in the BC teachers strike

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Shrugging off the government’s Pyrrhic victory in the BC teachers strike

On Monday, October 17, 20 000 teachers, union members and other supporters shut down the provincial capital of Victoria and marched on the legislature. Within 48 hours, it was clear that the teachers of British Columbia and their union, the BCTF, were on the verge of becoming victims of an institutionally driven betrayal of enormous proportions in terms of the size of the opportunity that was being squandered

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California: Teachers may join S.F. food service strike

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Teachers may join S.F. food service strike

Some members of San Francisco’s teachers union may join a strike by food service, custodial and secretarial workers at San Francisco Unified School District that could hit the district in little more than a week.

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Pennsylvania: Striking teachers, board meet

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Striking teachers, board to meet

Negotiating teams for the Pennsbury School District’s striking teachers’ union and its school board will meet tomorrow. The bargaining session was called by the state mediator working with the two sides, who are split on teacher pay and benefits. The time and place have not been revealed. The 800 teachers and their 11,000 students have not had class for nearly two weeks.

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CSUN: Students, faculty rally against propositions

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Students, faculty rally against propositions
Students, faculty and staff showed opposition to several propositions on the Nov. 8 California special election ballot Wednesday at a rally organized by Associated Students Student Productions and Campus Entertainment and the CSUN California Faculty Association chapter.

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Dillard University lays off 202 workers

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The Times-Picayune: Dillard University lays off 202 workers

Dillard University laid off 202 of its staff and faculty this week, nearly 59 percent of its employees, saying those reductions could be temporary but for now are essential to keeping the school running.

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Academic freedom vs. First Amendment

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Inside Higher Ed: Academic freedom vs. First Amendment

The University of Colorado did not violate the First Amendment rights of a medical school professor by stripping his department chairmanship because he openly opposed a plan to move the school, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. Experts on higher education law said they believed the court’s decision could narrow the academic freedom protections for public college employees — especially professors who also hold administrative jobs.

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NYU grad students prepare to strike

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The New York Times: NYU grad students say they’ll strike to unionize
New York University’s union of graduate students has announced plans to strike next week. The university, which previously recognized the union, announced that it would no longer do so and union officials have said that they need a strike to get the university to return to collective bargaining. University officials have said that unionization was not good for the university, while union officials say that only collective bargaining can adequately protect the interests of teaching assistants.

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Breakthrough for part-timers

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Inside Higher Ed: Breakthrough for part-timers

In the wee hours of Monday morning, a part-time faculty strike at the New School was averted when the university reached an agreement with negotiators for Academics Come Together, a United Auto Workers local representing nearly 2,000 part-timers. Both university officials and union members are hailing the pact as significant because it will provide benefits and job security of the sort that adjuncts nationally have not been able to achieve to date.

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Seton Hall demotes administrator who criticized church

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The Star Ledger: Seton Hall demotes administrator who criticized church

An associate dean of Seton Hall University’s College of Arts and Sciences was demoted by the Catholic school’s administration after he wrote a letter to The Star-Ledger critical of the Roman Catholic Church’s stance against homosexuality.

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Layoffs at Xavier (LA)

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Inside Higher Ed: Layoffs at Xavier

Xavier announcement

Xavier University of Louisiana announced on its Web site Friday that it would lay off employees, cancel numerous programs, limit graduate study to online offerings, and suspend conference play for its sports teams until fall 2006. The Times-Picayune reported that the historically black, Roman Catholic university in New Orleans would lay off a total of 318 staff members and 89 faculty members, which represents nearly three-fifths of its staff and more than a third of the faculty.

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Help wanted: Low-cost adjuncts

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Inside Higher Ed: Help wanted: Low-cost adjuncts

“Appointments are part-time, but substantial opportunities exist to teach 90 to 100 percent full-time schedules at 40 percent or less of full-time pay, with no health care, subsidized pension or other benefits,” according to classified employment ads that are scheduled to run this week in Vermont’s Times-Argus, Burlington Free Press and Rutland Herald.

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Wales: Teachers say “We’ll strike if pay fails”

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icWales: Teachers: We’ll strike if pay fails

THE MAJOR teachers’ union in Wales has threatened strike action following fears wages are about to be slashed. The National Union of Teachers says a shake-up of the school system, announced last summer, will see heads given the power to run their schools as they see fit.

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Mass. governor vetoes pay raises

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Mass. governor vetoes $42M in pay raises”

As cost-of-living expenses skyrocket, especially in housing, Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney has leveled yet another vicious assault on union workers at the state’s 28 public colleges and universities.

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Boston Globe: Campus insider

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BU’s Silber on Loury’s move to Brown and more

Campus Insider wrote a few weeks ago that the prominent economist and scholar of race Glenn Loury left Boston University for Brown largely because he found BU’s former president, John Silber, unsupportive after Loury’s views became less conservative. We were remiss in not seeking comment from Silber, but when we spoke to him recently, he had plenty to say, opening a fascinating window onto the kind of highly secretive negotiations that take place between universities and star professors who could easily defect to other schools.

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Churchill: CU yields to wants of others

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Rocky Mountain News: Churchill: CU yields to wants of others

University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill Thursday accused CU officials of “running point” for the people who want to see him fired for his political views.

CU administrators called Churchill’s views repugnant, but defended his right to express his views. However, they also launched an investigation into plagiarism allegations against Churchill.

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M.I.T. dismisses researcher, saying he fabricated some data

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The New York Times: M.I.T. dismisses researcher, saying he fabricated some data

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced yesterday that it had dismissed an immunology researcher at its Center for Cancer Research, saying he fabricated and falsified data in a scientific paper and in grant applications

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Protest on American U president’s severance deal

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The New York Times: Protest on college severence deal

Angered by the $3.7 million severance package that American University’s trustees awarded to Benjamin Ladner, the departing president, campus leaders called on Thursday for fellow students to lobby Congress to replace the board.

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Pennsylvania: Union says strike likely

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Teachers union says strike likely

A Penn-Trafford teachers strike appears imminent, as the school district claims it is offering substantial increases in salaries and benefits, while the teachers union is sticking to a deadline of noon today to call a strike if their demands are not met.

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