February 25, 2011, 12:27 pm Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut, a Democrat, says the state’s public colleges might be spending too much on administration. So he is proposing that the state’s budget staff review all non-faculty hiring at the University of Connecticut and Connecticut State Unive[...]
Posts Tagged ‘academic freedom’
March 1st, 2011 - 8:43 am § in Uncategorized
Conn. Governor Wants to Review Colleges’ Hiring of Administrators
February 26th, 2011 - 11:20 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
AAUP: What Should The UW Admin Say About Cuts?
Reposted from AAUP listserv Ed. Duane Storti is a a UW Professor well known to many for his efforts to force the UW administration to follow the faculty code. Ana Mari Cauce, Dean of Arts and Sciences, is well respected as a wise commentator on UW affairs. She is also a member of the President[...]
February 25th, 2011 - 9:17 am § in Schools & Colleges
Who OWNS what UW faculty create?
All faculty need to understand that we DO have a contract and that contract, the Faculty Code, effects a lot more than “just” free speech or due process. The Code effects YOUR rights to work you produce, even if that work is on “your own time.” Stanford University has asked[...]
February 24th, 2011 - 8:43 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
UPDATE: AAUP Responds to Disbanding of Faculty Senate at Iowa State University
AAUP Threatens to Investigate Idaho State U. February 23, 2011, 11:15 am The American Association of University Professors is threatening to investigate Idaho State University over the recent suspension of the institution’s Fa Click Here for original article Full Text culty Senate. The warning com[...]
February 16th, 2011 - 11:47 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
UW (the other one) Students and Professors Rally Against Governor
from The Chronicle, by Jack Stripling, via Raya Fidel. Thousands of protesters gathered on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol here on Tuesday to voice their opposition to a fast-moving proposal that would strip the union bargaining rights for University of Wisconsin faculty and staff members, [...]
January 27th, 2011 - 5:01 pm § in Misc., Schools & Colleges
Disgruntled Students Start Petition to Close Kaplan U
All they wanted was an education. All they got was debt. More and more former students at Kaplan University – the lucrative chain of “for-profit” colleges owned by the Washington Post Company – are coming forward with horror stories about the bogus classes, surprise fees and [...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 9:18 am § in China
Photocopying censored at Chinese University
from Macleans Police ask students and faculty to report subversive materials Chinese police have ordered students and faculty at Peking University to stop photocopying materials critical of the government. The order posted to the wall by local Yanyuan Police in 29 copy rooms read, “Materials that [...]
Is the UW Senate Powerless to Act?
The following is part of an email from three UW Senators to their colleagues in the faculty. It sounds to me as if the Senate is taking no action on the abuse of Andrew Aprikyan other than saying the President was wrong. Does the Senate have no authority? Can a UW admin. violate the Code […[...]
January 6th, 2011 - 8:11 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
What is wrong with Scientific Publishing?
Can we put it right before it is too late? from Cambridge I sat down today to write code and and found that I couldn’t – I had to write about science publishing, so here goes. I intend this will be the first of several posts. I often blog in forceful style (rant?) but here […][...]