Bookseller.com: University presses ‘struggling’ in recession
A number of the UK’s university presses are “struggling” to keep their heads above water in the face of the recession and pressure from rising student fees.
There is a move to create a Europe-wide association for university presses, with one of its main aims to support publishers, but it was revealed this week that Middlesex University Press will close by the end of the year.
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howtheuniversityworks.com: Is your “fiscal crisis” real?
Is your administration using “the economy” as an excuse to extort more work for less pay from an already over-burdened faculty?
Buying Howard Bunsis a plane ticket to your campus might be the best investment you can make right now.
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Workers World: California budget crisis hits students, education workers
The economic crisis in California spells hardship at the state’s public universities as budgets are balanced through a combination of tuition hikes and pay cuts for faculty and other workers.
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The Chronicle: The Economy and Adjunct Hiring
Over the past few months, I have been trying to discern a pattern to how the recession has affected adjunct faculty members. Are part timers being adversely affected by the strategies that colleges and universities are using to close budget gaps?
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The Chronicle: California’s ‘Gold Standard’ for Higher Education Falls Upon Hard Times
Few documents in higher education have enjoyed the influence or longevity of the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the 1960 law that transformed the state’s public colleges and served as a blueprint for public systems across the country.
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EurasiaNet: KAZAKHSTAN: ECONOMIC CRISIS CRIMPS ASTANA’S GRAND PLANS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Kazakhstan’s higher education system is taking a battering from the global financial crisis, jeopardizing Astana’s ambitious plans to turn the country into an Asian tiger economy. Thousands of young people face expulsion from universities as they find themselves unable to pay tuition and fees. The government has moved to quell public outcry by fast-tracking measures to assist financially-strapped students.
There are wider implications: problems in higher education could jeopardize President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s key priorities of transforming Kazakhstan into a knowledge economy, turning the country trilingual and making it one of the world’s 50 most competitive countries (Kazakhstan ranks 66th in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009).
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The New York Times: Brandeis Halts Retirement Payments
Buffeted earlier this year by the outcry over its plans to raise money by closing its art museum and selling the collection, Brandeis University said this week that it would suspend payments to the retirement accounts of faculty and staff members starting in July.
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Cincinnati Enquirer: Hebrew Union could face closure
Tough economic times and multimillion-dollar debt might force Hebrew Union College, the nation’s oldest Jewish educational institution, to shut down its Clifton campus.
The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is facing an $8 million debt – in part because of flat fundraising, pension liabilities, and endowment and other revenue declines that have hit the institute harder than at any other time in its history, Rabbi David Ellenson, the college-institute’s president, told stakeholders in an e-mail.
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The Tennessean: Lambuth University can’t make payroll
Lambuth University officials announced Tuesday that the Jackson, Tenn., school will not be able to make its regularly scheduled payroll today.
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The business office was informed Monday that an anticipated line of credit would not be available as previously thought, according to a news release from the university.
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