Eastern Michigan University’s 450 part-time lecturers are one step closer to gaining union representation. Union organizers filed for an election Wednesday with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission, the state agency that handles union elections. If half of active adjuncts, plus one, votes "yes" in a...
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In an unprecedented move, the faculty, staff and administration of Mendocino College have agreed to a 4 percent salary reduction beginning January 1. All regular employees, from classified workers to.
Eastern Michigan University’s 450 part-time lecturers are one step closer to gaining union representation. Union organizers filed for an election Wednesday with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission, the state agency.
by Douglas Rushkoff from The Daily Beast 12/13/09 The results are a bit scary. Not only have computers changed the way we think, they’ve also discovered what makes humans think—or think we’re thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it. Here are the...
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.
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 November, it was anything but good news. The LAO projects that the governor faces a...
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.
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 the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Local 352 representing Fleming faculty, said both sides...
