Part-Time Thoughts
Call me naive, but I just don't understand how university officials can be such, well, jerks. I suppose it's my general faith in the goodness of humans that gets me.
I have been writing about the lecturers' strike in Israel over the course of the past few weeks. The strike, now in its 84th day, is approaching a critical point..
I read today in a piece published in the New York Sun that New York state officials are recommending that, "New York's public universities mine their ranks of adjunct faculty.
I was reading the other day about the recent Canadian Council on Learning's report on post-secondary education in the Toronto Globe and Mail. It was almost too perfect that at.
According to an article in The Ticker, Dr. Kathleen Waldron scored a $10,735 raise to bring her annual salary to $249,285. Nice. Of course, compared to University of Michigan President Dr. Mary Sue Coleman's salary of $743,151, Waldron's salary is, well, Little League. Then again,...