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, Republican of Iowa. Actually, I've no idea which university officials have donated to the respective...
Part-Time Thoughts
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.
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 use a computerized accounting program for personal finances, and that makes it exponentially easier to...
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..
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 entered the search term "part-time faculty" and jumped from entry to entry. I got a...
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,...
