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Nevada Governor Cuts Off Discourse With Chancellor After ‘Personal Attacks’

Posted on February 24, 2009 by | Comments Off on Nevada Governor Cuts Off Discourse With Chancellor After ‘Personal Attacks’

The Chronicle News Blog: Nevada Governor Cuts Off Discourse With Chancellor After ‘Personal Attacks’

Tense relations between Nevada’s higher-education chancellor, James E. Rogers, and the state’s Republican governor, James Gibbons, may have reached the breaking point. After the outspoken chancellor sharply criticized Mr. Gibbons in a newspaper commentary published on Sunday, Governor Gibbons announced today that he would no longer deal directly with Mr. Rogers. Instead, he asked the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education to appoint a liaison who could work with his office and the legislature “in a professional and courteous manner.”

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New School Faculty Members Renew Standoff With President Bob Kerrey

Posted on February 16, 2009 by | Comments Off on New School Faculty Members Renew Standoff With President Bob Kerrey

The Chronicle News Blog: New School Faculty Members Renew Standoff With President Bob Kerrey

New York — If Bob Kerrey’s recent comments on his blog are any indication, the New School’s president evidently feels that, with the new year, a new era of improved “communication and shared governance” has begun at the university.

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Downturn Threatens the Faculty’s Role in Running Colleges

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The Chronicle: Downturn Threatens the Faculty’s Role in Running Colleges

Professors are losing their grip. Tough economic times are leading administrators to propose swift changes that short-circuit faculty governance, long a prized principle that gives professors wide-ranging authority over educational matters.

The results, faculty members say, are hastily conceived plans that reorganize academic programs, decrease professors’ roles in shaping the curriculum, and jeopardize tenure applications — all done with little advice from the faculty, in the name of saving money.

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