from Bill Lyne at the United Faculty of Washington Here, at the blog, if we had a nickel for every time a legislator said to us, “I love you guys, but no one ever writes or calls me about universities, so you’re never going to be on the top of my list,” we could cash […][...]
Posts Tagged ‘governance’
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, [...]
February 16th, 2011 - 11:36 am § in Schools & Colleges
35 Hour Work Week?
Kean U. Requires Faculty Members to Fill Out Time Sheets February 15, 2011, 4:30 pm Administrators at Kean University, a state institution in New Jersey, have asked faculty members to fill out daily time sheets to ensure that they are putting in at least a 35-hour workweek. The time sheets have beco[...]
February 16th, 2011 - 2:18 am § in Schools & Colleges
How Much to Pay A President?
When and if the regents choose to pay an inordinate salary to the next UW president, I assume that their motivation may be that the new super hero must be able to be respected by the crowd at Palm Springs. That respect is hard to achieve on a professor’s salary. I hope, however, that the [[...]
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 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[...]
What The New State Supreme Decision On Faculty Discipline Means
This last Thursday, February 3, 2011, the Washington Supreme Court handed down a decision that clarifies the legal framework under which state universities and colleges may discipline tenured faculty members accused of misconduct. The case is Mills v. Western Washington University, Docket No. 83597-[...]
Senate Chair: Aprikyan was wronged.
Originally posted 17 Jan. Updated Jan 24 because of a comment that may interest others. Please read comments. Ed Note: This is copied from the UW Senate Blog. Unfortunately, and I suspect illegally, that blog is protected from public view. UW staff, however can access the blog directly[...]
January 18th, 2011 - 12:54 pm § in Misc.
Aprikyan: Scientific smear campaign?
The issues relating to the need for due process in scientific fraud at the UW, are illustrated by this frightening report from the Scientist about a scandal in Germany. There is, however, one very important difference. The investigation at at Research Center Borstel seems to have fol[...]