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Showing posts with label faculty governance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faculty governance. Show all posts
Monday, November 9, 2026

Perry pieces blast business model of higher ed

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George MJ Perry has lately published two superb commentaries on dysfunction in higher education, both citing Prof. Kenneth Westhues 's c...
Friday, August 2, 2024

'Faculty are the least important people on a campus,' but don't worry; administrators will be all right

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Adaptation of Joe Loong via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 A recent item in The Chronicle of Higher Education ( subscription ), excerpted by Paul Ca...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

'Civility' is code for conformity

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court two weeks ago struck down a town policy purporting to require civility in public meetings. The town...
Monday, June 28, 2021

'Clinton' honorific draws fire at Arkansas law school

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"The Clinton Law School" was not to be. An op-ed in The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette by Mike Masterson on Saturday reported a mess ...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Union, university collude to cut Mass. higher ed pay

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UMass Dartmouth ( LGagnon CC BY-SA 3.0 ) The faculty union and university here at UMass Dartmouth, which includes UMass Law School , are...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Arkansas higher ed faculty sue to protect tenure, academic freedom

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An assault on academic freedom in Arkansas has drawn a lawsuit by faculty. In fall 2017, I republished concerns by my colleagues in the ...
Monday, October 22, 2018

Does your dean work for you?

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[This opinion is mine, reprinted from the Faculty Federation News: A Publication of the UMass Dartmouth Faculty Federation AFT-MA 1895 , vo...