Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Morehouse employee fired for e-mail
Morehouse College has fired a woman and reprimanded another for discriminatory comments made via their work e-mail accounts.
The fired woman worked as an administrative assistant in the president’s office, according to reports. After receiving an e-mail forward that included wedding photos of a gay couple, she forwarded the e-mail to others and made comments that were considered discriminatory.
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Inside Higher Ed: Gender Bias at SUNY-Buffalo?
Earning tenure is never a sure thing, but Janet Shucard thought that she had done everything right.
She and her husband joined the State University of New York at Buffalo as instructors in the neurology department in 1985. By 1998, the year she entered the tenure track, she had served as associate director of the department’s division of development and behavioral neuroscience, head of the department of neurology medical psychotherapy service and assistant professor of neurology. She had published dozens of articles in prominent science journals. And she had pulled in research funding, most recently grants from the National Institutes of Health.
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Inside Higher Ed: ‘Standing Still’ as Associate Profs
English and foreign language departments promote male associate professors to full professors on average at least a year — and in some cases, depending on type of institutions, several years — more speedily than they promote women, according to a study being released today by the Modern Language Association. Over all, the average time for women as associate professor prior to promotion is 8.2 years, compared to 6.6 years for men.
The Chronicle: Not Moving On Up: Why Women Get Stuck at Associate Professor
Message to deans, department chairs, and other administrators in higher education: Pay more attention to associate professors— particularly women, for whom the path to promotion is often murky and less traveled.
That’s one of several recommendations from a panel of the Modern Language Association, whose new report, released today, describes how male associate professors in English and foreign languages are routinely promoted to full professor quicker than women are. To help reverse that trend, the MLA’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession suggested several moves, such as backing away from the monograph as the dominant form of scholarship that counts toward advancement, attaching bigger salary increases to the jump from associate to full professor, and creating mentor programs that focus specifically on preparing associate professors for promotion. The report, “Standing Still: The Associate Professor Survey,” is available on the association’s Web site.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Marquette U. Faculty Calls on University to Focus on Adjunct Equity
Marquette University’s Faculty Council has issued a report urging the university to focus on its use of adjuncts, which the report says “risks engendering an institutional dependency on the exploitation of adjunct labor.”
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Greenville News: Clemson faculty passes resolution citing concern over administrators’ pay
CLEMSON — In a unanimous vote, the Clemson University Faculty Senate approved a resolution today expressing concern over what its members called disproportionately higher administrators’ pay.
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The resolution cited lost trust in the area of administrative salaries.
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Bozeman Daily Chronicle: MSU prevails in gender discrimination lawsuit
A jury of eight women and four men ruled against a female Montana State University professor in Gallatin County District Court Friday after a ten-day trial in which the university’s promotion and pay policies were challenged based on allegations that the engineering professor was paid less than her male counterparts.
The jury was asked to determine whether tenured engineering professor Aleksandra Vinogradov was discriminated against because she is a woman and the discrimination was retaliation for complaining about her pay. Vinogradov was the first woman to be granted a tenured professorship in the university’s engineering department and was the only female professor there for several years.
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Inside Higher Ed: Call for ‘Fairness and Equity’ to ESL Instructors and Students
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages has issued a statement calling for “fairness and equity” to such programs at times that colleges are cutting budgets and eliminating positions. “During turbulent economic times, educational programs that serve culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse student populations may be at a disadvantage when competing for reduced funding with programs that serve conventional, mainstream student populations,” the statement says. “This disadvantage is particularly acute for English as second language (ESL) programs, which are often mischaracterized as being remedial in nature.” Further, the statement noted that ESL instruction is is frequently provided by adjuncts who lack job protections. “Unfortunately, during difficult economic times, educational programs face the temptation of laying off part-time, adjunct, or contingent faculty educators that the institution is rarely under any legal or collectively bargained obligation to retain. Reductions of this kind only serve to reduce the level of continuity in high-quality instruction to which ESL students have become accustomed. TESOL strongly supports all ESL faculty’s employment rights ─ part-time and full-time — during these harsh economic times.”
Newsday: Adelphi pays $300G to settle sex discrimination suit
Adelphi University has agreed to salary hikes and payments totaling more than $300,000 to several female professors as part of a settlement of a federal gender discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday.
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San Francisco Chronicle: Even in recession, UC spends big on top brass
The University of California’s worst financial crisis in years has not prevented the hiring of high-salaried administrative talent or the awarding of pay raises, promotions and perks to a dozen executives, university records show.
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Inside Higher Ed: Win for Anti-Bias Rules
A federal appeals court on Tuesday gave a major win to public universities and advocates for gay rights who have wanted to preserve in full the institutional anti-bias policies that bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled — in a two-sentence decision — that the Hastings College of Law of the University of California was within its rights to deny recognition to a branch of the Christian Legal Society. Hastings said that the student group’s ban on members who engage in “unrepentant homosexual conduct” violated the law school’s anti-bias policies. In turn, the Christian Legal Society argued that its First Amendment rights were being violated by the law school in that it was forcing the law students in the society to abandon their religious beliefs in return for recognition.
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San Francisco Chronicle: Christian law group loses fight with Hastings
SAN FRANCISCO — UC Hastings College of the Law can deny recognition and funding to a Christian student group because it excludes gays, lesbians and non-Christians, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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Los Angeles Times: Lawsuit over gay-marriage speech at L.A. City College spurs reactions
Protesters back the student who claims his professor reacted badly to his religion-related stance against same-sex unions; a gay unity club forms; a New York man gets misdirected death threats.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Philosophers’ Association Urged to Take Tougher Stand Against Colleges With Anti-Gay Policies
About 1,000 members of the American Philosophical Association have signed an online petition urging the group to take a stronger stand against colleges that bar employees and students from engaging in homosexual acts.
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