Los Angeles Times: L.A. teachers approve contract as layoffs loom
Teachers have accepted a new contract that includes no pay raise for last year, this year or next year, but will allow them to take formal contract grievances public.
The leaders of United Teachers Los Angeles had insisted to members that they could do no better on salary issues during tough economic times, and the membership responded, even though the union’s governing House of Representatives strongly opposed the deal.
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Boston Globe: Harvard to lay off 275
Harvard University announced this morning that it plans to lay off 275 staff members as the college grapples with budget pressures caused by a precipitous endowment decline.
The Chronicle: Sharing the Pain: Cutting Faculty Salaries Across the Board
Broad Pay Cuts Make Deep Dents in Morale
Greensboro College has many of the intimate hallmarks of a small, private, liberal-arts college.
Professors give their cellphone numbers to students and routinely provide extra help to those who need it. Classes at the North Carolina institution average 14 people. And one of the students featured on the college Web site is a biology major who plays on the tennis and volleyball teams and says she is grateful that professors are willing to work around her hectic schedule. The college motto is “You belong here!”
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The Chronicle News Blog: U. of Tennessee System Announces Layoffs for the Future
Unlike many states, Tennessee is reserving more than $300-million of its education stimulus money from the federal government to fill gaps in the 2011 budget year when its economy may still be flagging.
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The Daily News: Academic association to probe UTMB layoffs
GALVESTON — A committee appointed by the American Association of University Professors will travel to Galveston and Austin this summer to investigate whether the University of Texas Medical Branch used Hurricane Ike as a handy excuse to thin out tenured faculty.
“We don’t launch an investigation lightly,” said Eric Combest, associate secretary in the Department of Academic Freedom and Tenure of the 94-year-old organization based in Washington, D.C.
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Workers World: Harvard University: The banks, layoffs & growing fightback
On June 4, during Commencement Day 2009 at Harvard University—the richest university in the world—graduating students held up signs spelling “N-O L-A-Y-O-F-F-S” inside, while workers on the outside held up the same signs.
For months leading up to commencement, a loose coalition of Harvard students and unions has been protesting layoffs at the university. Comprised of members of the No Layoffs Campaign—started by members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3650; UNITE/HERE; Service Employees union Local 615; Student Labor Action Movement; and other student activists—this grouping has held rallies, marches and forums demanding no layoffs and no cuts in services.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Cuts at U. of California at Riverside Reflect Harsh Realities for All of the System’s Campuses
San Francisco — In a memorandum that offers a look into the harsh decisions that leaders throughout the University of California system are making as they cope with further cuts in state support, the chancellor of the University of California at Riverside has announced that his campus will cut faculty and staff positions by 15 percent over the next couple of years and enroll fewer students in the fall of 2010.
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Tagged Budgets & Funding, furloughs, Hiring Freeze, job attrition, Job cuts, job security, Layoffs, U of California, UC Riverside
World Socialist Website: Los Angeles School Board eliminates thousands of teachers’ jobs
The decision by the Los Angeles School Board to eliminate thousands of positions is the latest in a series of attacks on California teachers. The vote by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) came at a special April 14 meeting called to address a budget deficit of $596 million for 2009-2010.
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The Chronicle: AAUP Plans to Investigate Clark Atlanta U. Over Faculty Layoffs
The American Association of University Professors today informed Clark Atlanta University of plans to investigate the university over its dismissal of 70 full-time faculty members in February.
In a letter to Clark Atlanta’s president, Carlton E. Brown, the associate secretary of the AAUP, B. Robert Kreiser, wrote that the institution’s “massive dismissals of faculty” raised “key issues of academic freedom, tenure, and due process” that remain unresolved after two months of communications with the university. Accordingly, Mr. Kreiser said, the AAUP plans to establish an investigative panel to determine whether the association’s committee on academic freedom and tenure needs to take action against the university.
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The Kingston Whig Standard: Queen’s atmosphere ‘tense’
EDUCATION: Faculty association accuses university of balancing books on the backs of professors
Tension is mounting at Queen’s University, where the faculty union is accusing administration of balancing the books at the expense of professors and instructors.
Last week, Principal Tom Williams said layoffs would be unavoidable unless all staff agreed to cost-saving measures such as unpaid days off.
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Los Angeles Times: L.A. Teachers Vote on Union Plan for for One-Day Strike
The union representing Los Angeles teachers is organizing for a possible one-day strike next month to protest looming layoffs. The work stoppage would have to be approved by a majority of teachers, who will be able to vote over a several-day period, starting today.
Last week, the Los Angeles Board of Education, by a 4-3 vote, approved a budget package that could result in more than 5,300 job losses, including about 3,500 teachers who lack tenure protection.
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Burlington Free Press: UVM unveils revised budget plan, hopes to shrink number of layoffs
The chief financial officer for the University of Vermont says he’s optimistic the school has figured out a way to avoid a second round of layoffs and possibly reinstate some of the part-time lecturers given pink slips earlier this year.
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socialistworker.org: Parsons faculty fight dismissals
NEW YORK–Some 150 people, most of them teachers, rallied on April 23 in front of the New School administration building to demand the reinstatement of 12 adjunct faculty.
Dozens of students also turned out to support teachers in the Fine Arts department in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons the New School for Design–the teachers were laid off just before spring break began.
New School, which Parsons has been a part of since 1970, essentially has a faculty of part-timers. Parsons faculty is made up of 127 full-time faculty members and 1,056 part-time faculty members. Part-timers make up an overall 89 percent of the New School’s faculty.
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The Chronicle: Layoffs Introduce a College Town to Uncertainty
One of the most popular lunch spots on a small downtown strip here is a place called Lou’s, a 62-year-old diner with a checkerboard linoleum floor, a dessert case filled with diet-busting baked goods, and, since this fall, a bailout special on the menu. On a recent day, it was a generous serving of meatloaf, with mashed potatoes and corn, for $6.95.
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The Chronicle News Blog: 9 Tenured Faculty Members Are Laid Off at San Francisco Art Institute
The San Francisco Art Institute has laid off nine tenured faculty members in the latest in a series of cutbacks aimed at stemming the institute’s cash-flow problems.
The financial crisis and credit crunch have hit the institute particularly hard, said Bob Gamboa, a spokesman. Lenders have been stingy since 30 percent of its endowment disappeared last fall in the stock-market crash. Since then, the institute has taken a number of belt-tightening measures, including a blanket salary freeze for nonunion faculty and staff members, compulsory furloughs during semester breaks, and a 25-percent pay cut for senior administrators.
WCF Courier: Hawkeye faculty ‘shocked’ by layoffs
WATERLOO — Faculty members at Hawkeye Community College are reeling following notification last week that 43 instructors will lose their jobs.
“The general mood of the individuals involved is that they are shocked, angry and very disappointed to have been treated in this fashion,” said Arlyn Ristau, former president of the Hawkeye Professional Educators Association.
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WCF Courier: Hawkeye Community College laying off 43
WATERLOO — Hawkeye Community College is notifying 43 organized full- and part-time faculty members that they will be laid off, according to school officials and faculty.
In addition, those staff not covered by a collective bargaining agreement will see a pay freeze and furloughs, HCC President Greg Schmitz said in a memo to employees.
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Boston Globe: Wellesley College cuts 80 non-faculty jobs
Wellesley College is cutting its workforce by 80 employees through layoffs and early retirements, becoming the latest institution of higher education forced to make significant cuts in the dismal economy.
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The Advocate: Is MHCC cutting its faculty?
Budget cuts face college administration; 16 faculty receive tentative layoff notice
After notification this week of tentative layoffs of 16 full-time faculty members, MHCC instructors are wondering if this is the only solution.
“If we’re trying to grow, this is one of the worst ways to do it,” political science instructor Janet Campbell said Wednesday at a town hall meeting Wednesday afternoon in the Visual Arts Theater.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Employees Revolt Over Layoffs at U. of New Mexico Press
Employees at the University of New Mexico Press learned yesterday that three of their colleagues would be let go at the end of April and that nine more positions — in order fulfillment and customer service — might soon be outsourced. That kind of news is all too common these days. More unusual is what happened next: This afternoon, the employees issued their own press release, alleging that the press’s director, Luther Wilson, was partly to blame for the situation. They also questioned whether outsourcing could solve the press’s financial woes.
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