Ohio Senate Votes to Deny Collective-Bargaining Rights to Most Public-College Professors This time I may be siding with the enemy. An article in the linked issue of the Chronicle reports that the Ohio State Senate is joining Wisconsin in ruling that faculty do not have collective bargaining rights. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Faculty Senate’
The Lab: A Video on Scientific Misconduct
Ed. The issue of scientific misconduct is a hot one at the UW. The President and Provost fired Professor Andrew Aprikyan despite the universal finding by a Senate panel that the UW had not followed due process. In my opinion, the UW has done a poor job. A lack of due process means that we [&[...]
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, [...]
Candidate for UW Presidency: How does he view WA state Faculty Code?
Duane Storti on the AAUP blog has raised an important point. Unlike some other universities, the UW uses neither individual contracts not a union contract to hire faculty. Instead, we are very lucky to have a Faculty Code, written by our own Faculty Senate and endorsed by the President and Regen[...]
David Lovell Leaves the UW
by Jim Gregory, Professor, History (from AAUP listserv) I want to take a moment to say goodbye to David Lovell. As all of us should know, David served as Chair of the Faculty Senate in 2008-2009 and served many other years in faculty leadership positions, including the most demanding job of all, as [...]
February 10th, 2011 - 6:28 pm § in Misc.
UW Senate Blog
Link here to Senate Blog. Because the UW Senate Blog is published behind the UW firewall, those Ave readers can not directly access this public record. As a service to the wider community, we will periodically, repost the blog here on the Ave. UW faculty, students and staff should be able to acces[...]
February 10th, 2011 - 10:12 am § in Schools & Colleges
Faculty Strike with Students at University of Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Puerto Rican Association of University Professors is staging a 24-hour strike in support of students who have clashed with police during protests over a new fee.[...]
February 7th, 2011 - 1:14 am § in Schools & Colleges
Regents Shred Faculty Senate at RPI!
from Inside Higher Education, Feb 2, 2011 When the Faculty Senate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute voted, in spring 2006, to widen its membership to include contingent faculty, it set in motion a series of events that left the senate in a state of limbo and shredded the notion of shared governanc[...]
January 28th, 2011 - 7:20 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Whose responsibility is it to determine what is and is not academic free speech on any campus? … the administrators or the faculty?
Michigan State University: Student Threatened with Suspension for E-mailing Faculty about University Scheduling This is the story of a student, the Association Director of the student government at Michigan State University. The Provost revealed plans to shorten the school’s academic cal[...]