In late-December, the University of Denver law school announced the newest addition to its faculty: disgraced former FEMA administrator Michael Brown, forever remembered for doing a “heckuva” (i.e. incompetent) job during Hurricane Katrina. This spring, Brown will be teaching students about the Patriot Act. A...
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Baker University officials have asked a federal judge to dismiss a wrongful termination lawsuit that a former adjunct professor — once the university’s highest-paid employee — filed earlier this year..
The California state budget crisis is likely to get worse before it can get better. When the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) released its five-year fiscal forecast for California in late.
California State University, Stanislaus students staged a massive walkout in December to protest the loss of Winter Term, cuts to classes and professors, and what many termed as the “poor leadership” of President Hamid Shirvani. Approximately 300 students left classes to rally in the CSU...
The union representing part-time faculty members at Montgomery College, a community college in Maryland, announced Monday that it had reached a tentative deal with the college on a first contract..
A strike by Fleming College faculty looms if both sides are unable to reach a deal by the strike deadline of Jan. 13, says the union. Gary Bonczak, president of.
Baker University officials have asked a federal judge to dismiss a wrongful termination lawsuit that a former adjunct professor — once the university’s highest-paid employee — filed earlier this year. A Baker attorney says that plaintiff Russell W. Pieken failed to exhaust administrative remedies under...
Hiring one-year contract and adjunct faculty members instead of tenure-track faculty will likely be among the discussion items brought before Missouri Southern State University’s Board of Governors in December. The.
The cuts are starting to strike nerves in the Seattle Community Colleges district. That’s what the district’s Board of Trustees found at their monthly meeting in February, when faculty members.
Despite a supervised vote by the Ontario Labor Relations Board, Ontario’s colleges are refusing to have the ballot boxes opened and the votes counted following a historic vote by part-time and sessional faculty members on whether to join a union. "The fact that the vote...
