RUTGERS University administrators and about 700 of its part-time lecturers have reached a tentative contract agreement. The four-year agreement, reached in September, schedules cumulative pay increases of roughly 25 percent for most of the lecturers. Accordingly, lecturers who teach by the credit will see their...
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Part-time instructors at the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College have voted to unionize, seeking better pay and recognition for their contribution to the two state colleges.The votes.
After six months of negotiations to amend the Lecturers’ Employee Organization’s (LEO) 2004 contract, the LEO Union and the University of Michigan administration have settled. The three-year contact was voted.
Palomar College will immediately launch an investigation into allegations that an administrator illegally changed the grades of five students in a foreign language class last summer, President Bob Deegan said. Deegan’s announcement came in response to demands for such an investigation from the faculty senate...
Only a fraction of the $35,000 Concordia University will pay former premier Bernard Landry this semester is for teaching, with the rest covering “other tasks,” like networking and forging links.
Palomar College will immediately launch an investigation into allegations that an administrator illegally changed the grades of five students in a foreign language class last summer, President Bob Deegan said..
The Wayne State University part-time faculty union organizing committee announced this week that more than 75 percent of the faculty members they’ve approached have signed membership cards — which is the first step towards becoming a recognized union. In an e-mail announcement, the committee urged...
After a nearly six-month negotiation process which was delayed by an impasse, College of the Canyons and the union representing all part-time and adjunct faculty at the college –AFT Local.
Heartland Community College will appeal the decision of an arbitrator who said the college violated rules protecting union activity when it failed to give a part-time teacher a full-time job..
The American Federation of Teachers in January released a report titled The “Faculty Bias” Studies: Science or Propaganda? The report finds that the most frequently cited research on alleged political bias in college faculty is severely flawed in its methodology and makes sweeping assumptions that...
