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Protesters occupy building on Sacramento campus

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San Diego Union-Tribune: Protesters occupy building on Sacramento campus

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — More than 100 faculty members, students and staff have occupied a building at California State University, Sacramento as part of a statewide mobilization against pending cuts to higher education.

An early afternoon rally on Wednesday began with more than 600 protesters, who blamed CSU Chancellor Charles Reed for not doing enough to oppose cuts California lawmakers are using to close the state’s $26.6 billion budget deficit.

Gov. Jerry Brown already signed into law a $1 billion reduction to higher education, but that number could grow if taxes are not increased, as the Democratic governor wants.

The protestors marched from the school’s library quad to an administrative building to present a set of petitions. Law enforcement officials were inside, but it is unclear whether university administrators were prepared for the occupation.

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SUNY Budget Cut by Nearly $300 million

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The Chronicle: N.Y. Budget Takes Another Bite Out of SUNY and Omits Most Regulatory Freedoms

New York’s Legislature on Wednesday passed a budget on time for the first time in five years, but lawmakers got little appreciation for their promptness from higher education.

The lawmakers cut an estimated $289-million from the operating budget of the State University of New York. bringing total reductions in the system’s state appropriations to more than $1.4-billion over the past four years, according to system figures.

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Marketization and Nationalization in Britain?

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The Chronicle: Marketization and Nationalization in Britain?

U.K. higher education is certainly going through challenging times. They are not as difficult as some overseas commentators have suggested. It is not like California. Home and E.U. students of all stripes will still have access to loans and no one will have to pay up front. Students from less well-off families will be better off. The science and research budget has been protected. And so on.

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Program Cuts Loom at 4 Public Universities – SUNY, Missouri, Illinois, Louisiana

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The Chronicle: Program Cuts Loom at 4 Public Universities

Financially strapped public colleges and universities are living in the shadow of the ax this semester, enduring a renewed stream of announcements of potential or actual faculty layoffs and program closures.

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British Universities to See Budgets Slashed

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The Chronicle: British Universities to See Budgets Slashed

Higher education will suffer major budget cuts under a comprehensive spending review released on Wednesday by the British government.

The much-anticipated—and dreaded—report outlines the coalition government’s plans to address the largest budget deficit Britain has faced outside of wartime. Almost all government departments, excluding health and overseas aid, will see their budgets cut by an average of 19 percent over four years, according to the so-called spending review. Cuts of 83 billion pounds (about $131-billion) are expected to result in the elimination of 490,000 public-sector jobs.

The news for British universities is particularly bad: Excluding research support, which will remain flat, the amount of money going to higher education will decline by 40 percent over the next four years, from 7.1 billion pounds (about $11-billion) to 4.2 billion pounds (about $6.6-billion).

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At Rallies Across the Country, Students Turn Out in Defense of Public Education

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The Chronicle: At Rallies Across the Country, Students Turn Out in Defense of Public Education

Less than a month before midterm elections, students, faculty members, and advocacy groups held rallies on campuses across the country on Thursday to show elected officials their support for public higher education.

At Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, for example, several hundred people gathered on the campus’s parade grounds for a jazz-inspired “funeral” for higher education. Some participants, dressed in black carried a coffin labeled “education,” while others carried flags representing language programs that the university has cut to cope with shrinking state appropriations.

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U. of Southern Mississippi Plans to Cut Programs and 29 Faculty Jobs

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The Chronicle: U. of Southern Mississippi Plans to Cut Programs and 29 Faculty Jobs

With classes barely under way at the University of Southern Mississippi, officials at the institution are already preparing for a steep budget reduction for next year. They have notified 29 faculty members, about half of them tenured, that their jobs are on the line.

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UNLV removes dean critical of program cuts

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Las Vegas Review-Journal: University removes engineering dean

College chief was critical of UNLV’s plans to eliminate programs

The dean of UNLV’s College of Engineering, whose programs are expected to be among the hardest hit in the next round of budget cuts, has been removed from his job and reassigned to the provost’s office, the university confirmed Monday.

Eric Sandgren took over as dean of the college in 2003. His contract, which pays him $193,596 a year, expires in June.

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Liberal arts cuts at U of Maine

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Bangor Daily News: UM students, faculty voice concerns about likely cuts

Report eyes slashing women’s studies, performing arts, languages

ORONO, Maine — More than 200 concerned University of Maine students and faculty members questioned the school’s academic administrators during a public forum Monday about an academic prioritization report released last week that calls for $12.3 million in budget cuts. The proposed cuts would eliminate majors in women’s studies, foreign languages, public administration, performing arts and other areas of study.

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Ontario Will Add 20,000 New Students at Colleges and Universities…but no new professors

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The Chronicle: Ontario Will Add 20,000 New Students at Colleges and Universities

Ontario, already the province with the most universities and colleges in Canada, will add 20,000 new places for students this fall, according to details in yesterday’s provincial budget. The province will spend more than $300-million for the expansion, in addition to more than $200-million that was previously announced. The budget also says Ontario plans to aggressively promote its colleges and universities abroad to encourage the world’s best students to study and settle in the province. It will also pay for an improved credit-transfer system. The higher-education expansion was welcomed by the universities and colleges, but faculty members said there was no mention of hiring additional professors.

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Students, teachers protest over US education cuts

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AFP: Students, teachers protest over US education cuts

LOS ANGELES — Students clashed with baton-wielding police as thousands took to the streets across California in mostly peaceful protests against cuts in education spending.
Television reports showed dozens of protesters at the University of California Berkeley scuffling with police as demonstrations against fee hikes of more than 30 percent turned viole

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U.S. students protest fee hikes at universities

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Reuters: U.S. students protest fee hikes at universities

* Protests largely peaceful but some arrests in Oakland (Adds Oakland arrests, San Francisco rally)

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4 (Reuters) – Students and faculty at California’s public universities rallied across the state on Thursday to protest steep fee hikes they say have damaged a system of higher education long the envy of the nation.

More than 100 such events in more than 30 states were scheduled for a “Day of Action” in support of public education, prompted by tuition hikes and program cuts that reflect financial problems affecting nearly every U.S. state.

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New York: Students Protest on Various Fronts as Cuts Loom

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The Epoch Times: Students Protest on Various Fronts as Cuts Loom

New York City NEW YORK—Looming education-related cuts lead to student protests on four fronts in the city on Thursday, tying into a national day of student protest over similar cuts.

Protests in New York City targeted the planned elimination of free Student MetroCards, the closure of 19 public schools that were broken up into smaller charter schools, the education cuts looming from the city and state budgets, and the overall mayoral control of the city’s school system.

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Students, Teachers Take Part in Nationwide Protests Against Education Cuts

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Democracy Now!: Students, Teachers Take Part in Nationwide Protests Against Education Cuts

Hundreds of thousands of students and teachers took part in protests Thursday as part of the National Day of Action to Defend Public Education. Much of the day’s focus was on the university and state college campuses of California, where students face a 32 percent tuition hike. Thousands of California students staged a one-day strike and took part in rallies from San Diego to Sacramento to Humboldt County. Actions were held in at least thirty other states, including here in New York, where protesters rallied outside the offices of Governor David Paterson. It was the largest day of coordinated student protest in years.

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Nevada Higher Education Faces Sweeping Cuts Under Governor’s Plan

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Las Vegas Review-Journal: Nevada Higher Education Faces Sweeping Cuts Under Governor’s Plan

Gov. Jim Gibbons brought to the table two ideas for generating $80 million in new revenue when he called on Tuesday a Feb. 23 special session of the Legislature to deal with an $887 million shortfall.

The governor proposed increasing revenues from the mining industry by $50 million and allowing a Chicago company to launch a camera-based auto insurance and registration verification program that would net the state $30 million.

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U. of Iowa Lists 14 Graduate Programs at Risk for Cuts or Elimination

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The Chronicle: U. of Iowa Lists 14 Graduate Programs at Risk for Cuts or Elimination

Worried faculty members at the University of Iowa now have a report from a provost-appointed task force that names 14 graduate programs — half in the humanities — that could be restructured or eliminated as the university seeks to save money.

In a process that began last spring and triggered some angst among faculty members, the task force categorized the institution’s 111 graduate programs into five groups. The 14 programs are in a category called “additional evaluation required” and have “significant problems,” with no “viable plans for improvement,” the report says.

The programs the group said needed to be evaluated further are: American studies, M.A. and Ph.D.; Asian civilizations, M.A.; comparative literature, M.A. and Ph.D.; comparative literature (translation), M.A. and Ph.D.; film studies, M.A. and Ph.D.; German, M.A. and Ph.D.; linguistics, M.A. and Ph.D.; educational policy and leadership studies (educational administration), M.A., Ed.S., and Ph.D.; educational policy and leadership studies (social foundations of education), M.A. and Ph.D.; health and sport studies, M.A. and Ph.D.; teach and learn (elementary education), M.A. and Ph.D.; stomatology, M.S.; integrative physiology, Ph.D.; and exercise science, M.S.

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U of A faculty accepts six unpaid days

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Edmonton Journal: U of A faculty accepts six unpaid days

EDMONTON – University of Alberta faculty have agreed to take six unpaid days of vacation next year in exchange for the chance to review and critique previously confidential financial planning documents.

“It’s not a matter of having any sort of veto power,” said Walter Dixon, president of the academic staff association. “If we think it’s the wrong decision, we can actually say so before that decision is made so that there may be some sober second thought.”

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UK: Thousands to lose jobs as universities prepare to cope with cuts

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The Guardian: Thousands to lose jobs as universities prepare to cope with cuts

• Post-graduates to replace professors
• Staff poised to strike over proposals of cuts

Universities across the country are preparing to axe thousands of teaching jobs, close campuses and ditch courses to cope with government funding cuts, the Guardian has learned.

Other plans include using post-graduates rather than professors for teaching and the delay of major building projects. The proposals have already provoked ballots for industrial action at a number of universities in the past week raising fears of strike action which could severely disrupt lectures and examinations.

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Historic declines in state support for public higher ed

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Inside Higher Ed: Historic Declines

By any financial measure, this fiscal year is a terrible one for public higher education. And while that’s no surprise to anyone working at a state college or university, new national data document the extent of the loss of state support.

Total state support for higher education for 2009-10 — including federal stimulus dollars — is $79.4 billion, which is a decline of 1.1 percent from the prior year and 1.7 percent from the year before that. This represents a dramatic shift from the three-year period of 2005 to 2008 when state support grew 24 percent, to $80.7 billion — without federal stimulus dollars in the equation. Without the federal stimulus contribution, which is now over, state support this year would have been down 3.5 percent over one year and 6.8 percent over two years.

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AAUP Report Slams Clark Atlanta U. Over Faculty Layoffs

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The Chronicle: AAUP Report Slams Clark Atlanta U. Over Faculty Layoffs

The American Association of University Professors issued a report today accusing Clark Atlanta University of numerous violations of faculty rights in connection with its dismissal of about a fourth of its faculty members last year.

The report, by an AAUP investigative committee, concludes that the university’s administration declared a nonexistent “enrollment emergency” last February as a pretext for firing about 55 full-time faculty members without due process.

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