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Leadership

Connecticut System Leader: Won’t Resign After Merger Fails

The president of the Connecticut State Colleges and University System says he’s not resigning, despite calls for him to step down after a regional higher education accreditation organization rejected a plan to consolidate Connecticut’s 12 community colleges into a single institution. Mark Ojakian (oh-JAY’-kee-an) says he plans keep working with the Commission on Institutions of […]

Workforce Development

Nursing Schools Reject Thousands Despite Shortages

There’s an acute nursing shortage in the United States, but schools are turning away thousands of qualified applicants as they struggle to expand class size and hire more teachers for nursing programs. In America, experienced nurses are retiring at a rapid clip, and there aren’t enough nursing graduates to replenish the workforce. At the same […]

Faculty

Connecticut Colleges Face Uncertainty After Merger Ruling

A plan called “Students First” that would combine all 12 of Connecticut’s community colleges won’t be moving forward in the immediate future. In the wake of the plan’s failure, community colleges face uncertainty, and students and faculty are worried about tuition hikes and school closings. The plan’s goals were to prevent tuition hikes and campus […]

Faculty

Adjuncts: Full-Time Part-Timers

Paul Baltimore never expected that he’d have to cobble together teaching gigs at three different community colleges to earn a living. Baltimore, who holds a doctorate from UC Santa Barbara and is an expert in the history of U.S. foreign relations, commutes via light rail and bus from his home in Sacramento to his teaching […]

Faculty

Inability to Attract Faculty to Attract Faculty Hurts Rural Schools

From a window in the Williston State College petroleum technology laboratory, in the heart of North Dakota’s oil country, Alberto Bellina can see a Halliburton oil complex tucked against snow-covered hills. Bellina teaches at the college. But unfortunately for rural schools like Williston State, he’s looking at his future. “Let’s face it: A guy who’s […]

Faculty

Colleges Prepare to Train More School Resource Officers

School districts around the state are grappling with how to properly train and station armed guards at every school to comply with a new state law by the start of the new school year. Districts could arm and train school employees, which is an option the Legislature gave districts when it passed a school security […]

Faculty

The Secret Lives of Struggling Adjuncts

A vice chancellor and a part-time college professor walk into a bar. They have a drink and start talking about work. Both have tough jobs and hectic schedules. Both have Ph.Ds and both are public servants. But when it comes to pay, the joke is on the part-time teacher. The part-time professor earns about $30,000 […]

Faculty

ICE Takes Professor into Custody

A local educator and father of three is being kept from his family. He has spent the last 30 years in the U.S., but last week he was taken into custody by immigration officials. On Saturday, his family was asking for your help. Dozens of the teacher’s friends in Lawrence were writing letters to the […]

Faculty

Faculty Union Sues Minnesota System

ST. PAUL — A union that represents faculty members at Minnesota State’s two-year colleges filed a lawsuit on Friday, seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars it says are owed to faculty members, according to a news release. Minnesota State College Faculty union represents more than 3,700 members at 30 colleges throughout Minnesota, including St. Cloud […]

Faculty

AAUP Helps Adjuncts Get Aid During Break

As colleges and universities across the state adjourn for the winter break, thousands of students head home for a rest or possibly a short-term seasonal job. But for most of the instructors at Colorado’s community colleges, the holidays offer not a respite, but a time of great anxiety and financial strain, with no cash coming […]

Faculty

Finding Math & Science Adjuncts Growing Challenge

The apparent exodus of qualified instructors is now reaching into higher education, Tulsa Community College officials say. “Typically we need a little more than 200 adjuncts each semester,” said TCC Dean of Science and Mathematics Lyn Kent. “We still need 20 to 25 for the spring semester.” Those figures are just for math and science, […]

Faculty

Professor Resigns after Tweeting About Sexual Assault

In a tweet that has since been deleted, Attorney and Austin Community College Professor Robert Ranco wrote that he would “be ok if Betsy DeVos was sexually assaulted.” The tweet has since been archived. Ranco’s tweet came in response to DeVos’ announcement that she would be implementing changes on how universities handle sexual assault investigations. […]

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