College students use cell phones in class, despite knowing that it adversely affects their concentration, according to a study conducted at the University of New Hampshire. In a university-wide study, student researchers at the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics found...
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After two years in collective bargaining negotiations, the University of Rhode Island’s part time faculty staff have unionized and created a tentative contract that is set to be officially ratified.
NYU agreed to extend adjunct professors contracts through January 31, 2011 after months of negotiating with their union through a mediator. The school will continue meeting with the.
The State Employees’ Association last week petitioned regulators for the right to represent adjunct faculty at New Hampshire’s community colleges. Brad Asbury, director of organizing at the SEA, declined to say how many part-time instructors had signed a union authorization card. He said the union...
With full-time professors at Indiana University campuses due for a 3-percent raise next month, part-timers want in on the deal, too. And now the full-time faculty are lending their support.
Washtenaw Community College’s president has put the brakes on a plan to privatize part-time faculty. We wrote about Whitworth’s plan in July/August 2010. To read that piece, click here. Larry.
The Kent State University Faculty Senate voted against supporting bills that would allow part-time faculty, including graduate and teaching assistants, the right to collective bargaining Monday. The bills currently before the Ohio legislature would remove the legal barriers that prohibit these groups of professors from...
The Office of Development and College Relations and Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty have been working together for slightly over a year to write a grant.
Full-time faculty at Grand Rapids Community College are speaking out against the school’s rapid growth and the president’s management and hiring strategy, specifically that part-time faculty now teach more classes.
Some months back, Science Careers focused on the challenges facing dual-career academic couples looking for work. On Wednesday, the American Association of University Professors issued a report, entitled Recommendations on Partner Accommodation and Dual Career Appointments (2010), that highlights the great complexity of the issues...