If you haven't already heard of FACE, let me introduce you to it. It is an initiative by the American Federation of Teachers, and FACE stands for Faculty and College Excellence. We all want faculty and college excellence. On the surface, it sounds like a...
Part-Time Thoughts
Could it be that some universities forgot to send along their monthly donation checks to the campaigns of Sen. Max S. Baucus, Democrat of Montana, and Sen. Charles E. Grassley,.
Craig Smith over at the AFT published a blog entry recently that talked about making the process for hiring part-time faculty as rigorous as that used when conducting searches for.
I have written several times about the senior lecturers' strike in Israel. It ended after 90 days. According to this article in the Jerusalem Post The lecturers didn't get the 25 percent pay raise they demanded, but did land a healthy 15.3 percent raise effective...
Listen to my blog entry here. I spent Sunday morning filing out my tax forms. I actually don't mind doing it. It's just that it takes so much time. We.
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. On January 14th, an Israeli judge, according to an article in the Jerusalem Post refused...
Call me nosy, but since there has been all this fuss over New York State's Higher Education Commission Preliminary Report, I thought I'd read it. Well, to be truthful, I.
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 the very end of the Globe and Mail story there was this paragraph: In the...
