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Indiana Court Ruling Paves way for Colleges to Require Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination

A federal judge rejected a request from students to block Indiana University’s vaccine mandate, clearing the way for the school to require students to get the COVID-19 shot to attend class, writes Erin Schumaker for ABC News. The ruling may set a precedent for future cases...

Durbin, Duckworth, Hirono, Booker Introduce Bill To Expand Public Service Loan Forgiveness To Adjunct Faculty

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), and U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) today introduced the Adjunct Faculty Loan Fairness Act to allow part-time faculty.

Is Your College on the Growing List of Those Who Will Require Students to Have COVID Vaccinations?

As college faculty and administrators edge toward the Fall 2021 semester, they’re grappling with COVID-19. Administrators are weighing whether to make vaccinations mandatory — or just strongly encourage — students to be.

Hundreds of Adjuncts at the Parsons School of Design Protest Changes to Their Health Care Coverage

Changes in the university’s healthcare plan have largely affected workers at Parsons School of Design, where part-time faculty make up at least 85% of the teaching staff. by Valentina Di Liscia More than 600 part-time faculty at the New School in New York City have...

Should Adjuncts Be Paid a Kill Fee When Classes are Canceled? One College Trustee Says No and Derails Contract

Eight months into negotiations, St. Petersburg College (SPC) reached an agreement with the newly-formed union representing adjunct faculty, resulting in a three-year contract with sections that addressed several of the educators’ concerns..

Faculty Senate at Univ. of Cincinnati Gives Unanimous Approval of Report on Adjunct Working Conditions

The University of Cincinnati’s (UC) Faculty Senate voted unanimously on Jan. 14 to endorse the findings of a report on the working conditions of the university’s adjuncts. The adjuncts at.

Illinois Supreme Court Rules That Community Colleges Can’t Replace Laid Off Tenured Faculty with Adjuncts

On December 17, 2020, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that a community college violated the Illinois Public Community College Act when it replaced laid off tenured faculty members with adjunct faculty. The case addressed Section 3B-5 of the Act, which addresses “bumping rights” and prohibits...

Colorado State University Task Force on Working Conditions for NTT Faculty Offers Up Recommendations

A task force that issued a host of recommendations around improving work conditions for non-tenure-track faculty at Colorado State University has been reconvened by Provost and Executive Vice President Mary.

One University Expects to Have All Faculty, Staff and Students Vaccinated Against COVID-19 by the End of 2020. Here’s How.

by Desi Cotis In late October, I received an email from a member of the California Department of Public Health. I called the number in the email and a bright.

NEH Seeks Applicants for Summer Seminar/Institute for Higher Education Faculty

The 2021 Summer Seminars and Institutes are 1- to 4-week virtual programs that support collegial study of significant topics in the humanities and make use of important scholarship and primary resources such as archival documents, artifacts, or historic sites. Typically, participants develop a scholarly and/or...

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