job security

Malaysia’s Largest University Looks to Trim Jobs of 600 Part-time Lecturers After Funding Cut

by Rahimi Yunus Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) is likely to terminate its part-time lecturer program and trim its strategic plan after funding was slashed under Budget 2021 announced this month. The university’s vice chancellor Prof. Datuk Dr. Mohd Azraai Kassim said it will have to...

Beevis and Calvin O. Butts (head) III

Can the Stupidity Police please visit Calvin Butts and put him under the hot lights for a bit?!? Calvin O. Butts III, president of SUNY Old Westbury, was quoted in.

Frequent Flyers and a Different Slant on Job Security

According to Allbusiness.com, the definition of job security is "Freedom from the fear of dismissal or job loss." In academe, the traditional definition of job security has been the tenure.

CSU Part-timers Bolt En Masse to Tenure-line Jobs

In one breath (at COCAL VIII), CSU union representatives laud the job security clauses in their contracts. Heck, even The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed have both jumped onto the bandwagon where musicians play harps and flutes and CSU union representatives with...