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StatsCan: Female university professors make less money than males

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Female university professors make less money than males

University faculties have become more inclusive of women in recent decades, though their salaries still trail those of their male counterparts, new data shows.

Figures from Statistics Canada show the average salary of full-time faculty at Canadian universities was $115,513 in the 2010-11 school year. That was up 2.8 per cent from the previous year.

Among male teaching staff, the average pay was $120,378, and among females, $106,970 Ñ or 88.9 per cent of males’ pay.

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Lecturer’s Arrest in the Emirates Stirs Debate Over Academic Freedom in the Middle East

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The Chronicle: Lecturer’s Arrest in the Emirates Stirs Debate Over Academic Freedom in the Middle East

The recent detention of a Sorbonne lecturer in the United Arab Emirates has rekindled the debate over the nature of academic freedom at Western institutions in the Persian Gulf region and the political impact those institutions, especially the high-profile new campus of New York University in Abu Dhabi, will have.

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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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Human Rights Watch Calls on New York U. to Condemn Arrest of Academic in the United Arab Emirates

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The Chronicle: Human Rights Watch Calls on New York U. to Condemn Arrest of Academic in the United Arab Emirates

Human Rights Watch is calling on New York University, the Louvre, the Guggenheim Museum, and other institutions that are building branches in the United Arab Emirates to condemn the arrest of an economics lecturer at the Abu Dhabi branch of the Sorbonne. Nasser bin Ghaith, an economics lecturer at the Sorbonne who has been critical of governments in the Gulf region for not making more aggressive political reforms, was detained on Sunday, soon after two other political activists were also arrested.

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SO YOU WANT TO GET A PHD IN THE HUMANITIES

Posted on October 27, 2010 by | Comments Off on SO YOU WANT TO GET A PHD IN THE HUMANITIES

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Faculty makeover at U of Scranton

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The Chronicle: Fitting In: U. of Scranton Revamps One-Third of Its Faculty

A wave of early retirements and the creation of new positions for fast-growing programs had, in large part, given Scranton the chance to revamp a major proportion of its faculty.

But hiring what turned out to be 82 professors in a five-year period—about one-third of the institution’s tenured or tenure-track faculty—was not without its own risks. It had the potential to trigger generational conflict, compromise the university’s Jesuit identity, and water down its commitment to undergraduate teaching. Faculty members right out of graduate school “might be more passionate about their research agenda rather than teaching,” says Father Pilarz.

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AAUP Accuses Bethune-Cookman U. of Denying Due Process to 7 Dismissed Professors

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The Chronicle: AAUP Accuses Bethune-Cookman U. of Denying Due Process to 7 Dismissed Professors

An investigative panel of the American Association of University Professors has accused Bethune-Cookman University of denying due process to seven dismissed professors, including four men who, the panel says, were fired for sexual harassment based mainly on hearsay and on complaints from unnamed students relayed to administrators by a consultant.

In a report issued on Friday, the AAUP panel broadly characterized Bethune-Cookman, a historically black college in Daytona Beach, Fla., of being “repressive of academic freedom.”

“A pervasive atmosphere currently exists at Bethune-Cookman University in which the administration supports favorites and ignores or punishes those who fall out of favor or who question, contend, or appeal,” the report says. “No adequate mechanism or procedure exists for the impartial or balanced hearing of grievances.”

Officials at Bethune-Cookman said on Monday that they planned to respond to the AAUP report, but were not yet prepared to do so.

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Texas A&M System Will Rate Professors Based on Their Bottom-Line Value

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The Chronicle: Texas A&M System Will Rate Professors Based on Their Bottom-Line Value

The Texas A&M University System is moving ahead with a controversial method of evaluating how much professors are worth, based on their salaries, how much research money they bring in, and how much money they generate from teaching, The Bryan-College Station Eagle reports.

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Who Really Failed at LSU?

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Inside Higher Ed: Who Really Failed?

Dominique G. Homberger won’t apologize for setting high expectations for her students.

The biology professor at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge gives brief quizzes at the beginning of every class, to assure attendance and to make sure students are doing the reading. On her tests, she doesn’t use a curve, as she believes that students must achieve mastery of the subject matter, not just achieve more mastery than the worst students in the course. For multiple choice questions, she gives 10 possible answers, not the expected 4, as she doesn’t want students to get very far with guessing.

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Anger at LSU Over a Professor’s Reassignment

Posted on April 14, 2010 by | Comments Off on Anger at LSU Over a Professor’s Reassignment

The Advocate: Professor’s removal irks group

LSU faculty and a national professors association are upset about LSU removing a professor from teaching a class in the middle of the semester for allegedly grading too harshly.

The LSU chapter of the American Association of University Professors approved sending a written complaint Monday to LSU System President John Lombardi alleging a “violation of academic freedom and faculty rights” for changing student grades after the professor was unseated.

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The Worst Salary Year for Faculty

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Inside Higher Ed: The Worst Salary Year

The average salary of a full-time faculty member in 2009-10 is only 1.2 percent higher than it was a year ago, the lowest year-to-year change in the 50 years that salary data have been collected by the American Association of University Professors. The association released its annual survey of faculty salaries today.

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Missouri State U. Faculty Members Can Now Be Reassigned Without Their Consent

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The Chronicle: Missouri State U. Faculty Members Can Now Be Reassigned Without Their Consent

Defying the wishes of faculty leaders and a standing committee established by their institution’s provost, the Board of Governors of Missouri State University has altered its policies to state that faculty members there—including those with tenure—can be temporarily reassigned to other duties without their consent.

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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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First Israeli Arab woman appointed full professor at Tel Aviv University

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Haaretz: First Israeli Arab woman appointed full professor at Tel Aviv University

A 54-year-old education expert at Tel Aviv University has become the first Israeli Arab woman in the country to be appointed a full professor.

“It’s a real breakthrough,” Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija said of her appointment yesterday. “First of all, I am proud of myself for this personal accomplishment. But I believe I won’t be the last – more and more Arab women are entering the higher education system in a variety of fields.”

As of 2007, there were 33 Arab full professors employed in Israeli research universities – all of them men, according to a master’s thesis written by former Open University of Israel graduate student Iris Zarini.

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Charging That His College Undervalues Teaching, a Professor Strikes Back

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The Chronicle: Charging That His College Undervalues Teaching, a Professor Strikes Back

Last October, Madhukar Vable said farewell to two teaching prizes that he had won a decade earlier. He packed the plaques in envelopes and shipped them back to the university and state offices that had awarded them.

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Educators, students under increasing attack

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World University News; GLOBAL: Education under increasing attack

Around the world, schools and universities have faced brutal military and political attacks in an increasing number of countries over the past three years, according to a new report published by Unesco. Since 2007 there have been thousands of reported cases of students, teachers, academics and other education staff being kidnapped, imprisoned, beaten, tortured, burned alive, shot or blown up by rebels, armies and repressive regimes.

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Time Crunch for Female Scientists: They Do More Housework Than Men

Posted on January 19, 2010 by | Comments Off on Time Crunch for Female Scientists: They Do More Housework Than Men

The Chronicle: Time Crunch for Female Scientists: They Do More Housework Than Men

When the biologist Carol W. Greider received a call from Stockholm last fall telling her she had won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, she wasn’t working in her lab at the Johns Hopkins University. The professor of molecular biology and genetics was at home, folding laundry.

Ms. Greider does many of the household chores, but she isn’t alone. A number of her female colleagues also do more around the house than their male partners.

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Faculties Are Liberal Because Conservatives Don’t Seek Academic Careers, Study Finds

Posted on January 18, 2010 by | Comments Off on Faculties Are Liberal Because Conservatives Don’t Seek Academic Careers, Study Finds

The New York Times: Professor Is a Label That Leans to the Left

The overwhelmingly liberal tilt of university professors has been explained by everything from outright bias to higher I.Q. scores. Now new research suggests that critics may have been asking the wrong question. Instead of looking at why most professors are liberal, they should ask why so many liberals — and so few conservatives — want to be professors.

Inside Higher Ed:New View of Faculty Liberalism/Why are professors liberal?

That question has led to many heated debates, particularly in recent years, over charges from some on the right that faculty members somehow discriminate against those who don’t share a common political agenda with the left. A new paper attempts to shift the debate in a new direction. This study argues that certain characteristics of professors — related to education and religion, among other factors — explain a significant portion of the liberalism of faculty members relative to the American public at large.

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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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Tehran Students Say Professor Killed in Bombing Was Opponent of Regime

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The Chronicle: Tehran Students Say Professor Killed in Bombing Was Opponent of Regime

A University of Tehran professor who was killed in a bomb blast outside his home in the Iranian capital this morning was an outspoken supporter of the opposition politician Mir Hossein Moussavi who had encouraged students in their recent antigovernment protests, a student at the university said in an e-mail message from Tehran.

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