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Oakton CC Tells Dept. Chairs: “Limit Adjuncts’ Hours to Avoid Affordable Healthcare Act…
by Tom Robb When Henry Ford first put his Model T’s and Model A’s on the assembly line, he introduced a revolutionary concept: workers should be able to afford the cars they are making. That concept seems lost on today’s…
Combat Administrative Bloat: Require Public Colleges to Spend 80% of Revenues on Instruction
by P.D. Lesko One college president told the local newspaper that his college was lowering the number of hours per week adjunct faculty could teach from 30 to 29 for a single reason: to skirt the new federal regulations that are associated…
Is Administrative Bloat Hurting Higher Ed? Number of College Administrators Up 60 Percent from 1993
by John Hechinger J. Paul Robinson, chairman of Purdue University’s faculty senate, strode through the halls of a 10- story concrete-and-glass administrative tower. “I have no idea what these people do,” said Robinson, waving his hand…
When Faculty Can No Longer Afford To Teach: Ph.D.s on Foodstamps Center Stage in Academe
By Kristina Chew College tuition keeps going up and also the amount of debt students and their families take on. College costs more not because of professors’ salaries: The Chronicle of Higher Education says that, according to the latest…
More College Students Facing Homelessness
by Madeline Kirkpatrick Many things come to mind when one imagines the archetypal college student; chimneys of textbooks, late-night partying—er, studying, the proverbial cap-and-gown for graduation. And while few people would add the word…
Fretting About “Liberal” College Profs. & Young, Impressionable Undergrads? GOP…
by Barbara Shelley College isn’t cool on the GOP campaign trail. First we had Mitt Romney accusing President Barack Obama of hanging out, at least metaphorically, in “the faculty lounge,” a supposed bastion of liberal…
Higher Ed Experts Call President Obama’s ‘College Affordability’ Speech at U of M…
by P.D. Lesko President Obama came to Ann Arbor to tell the country that federal aid to colleges should be tied to tuition costs. Federal aid to students would remain untouched, and a cranky Congress would have to pass the President’s…
Political Activism Versus Campus Diversity in Iowa — PT Law Faculty Member Denied Job Because of…
by Hans A. Von Spakovsky The only place for discrimination in a law school is as a lesson in the classroom — where professors teach young legal minds about the importance of ensuring equal treatment under the law. The last place you’d…
Should Part-Time Faculty Join The Occupy Movement on College Campuses?
by Henry A. Giroux In both the United States and many other countries, students are protesting against rising tuition fees, the increasing financial burdens they are forced to assume, and the primacy of market models in shaping higher…
New Report Suggests English Lit Profs. Writing Too Much Worthless, Well, Crap
by John D’Angelo Here’s what stupid uneducated people imagine that college literature professors do: teach. Here is what college literature professors actually do: write obscure papers that nobody will read. Now that’s…