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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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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Did College Fail Its Faculty?

Nate Bork was sitting at a Grease Monkey last September, waiting on an oil change, when he found out that he was getting the ax. The caller on his cell was Bobby Pace, the chair of the social sciences department at the Community College of Aurora, who informed him that he was on speakerphone with […]

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Defunct Academy Isn’t Paying Faculty

KANSAS CITY, Mo.— A Missouri military academy and college that dated to 1880 before abruptly shuttering at the end of May can’t afford to pay its faculty as previously promised, according to emails obtained by The Associated Press. The president and superintendent of what had been Wentworth Military Academy and College, Michael Lierman, told faculty […]

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Protesters: Rehire Teacher Fired for Commentary

LIVINGSTON, N.J. — Activists are imploring New Jersey lawmakers to demand a college rehire an instructor who was fired last month after officials said she made racially insensitive remarks during a Fox News interview. About a dozen protesters, including members of Black Lives Matter, showed up at a meeting of county legislators to discuss former […]

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Schools Team Up on “Call Me Mister” Program

SPARTANBURG — Spartanburg Community College and Clemson University have partnered to offer Upstate men an opportunity to become teachers through a unique educational mentorship initiative aimed at increasing South Carolina’s diverse teacher pool of candidates — the Call Me MISTER program. SCC’s MISTER program is the first in Spartanburg and will begin in fall of […]

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Professor Sees Hope in Self-Directed Assignments

Writing for The Hechinger Report, Ria Banerjee, an assistant professor of English at Guttman Community College in the City University of New York, details how self-directed assignments improved her students’ learning experiences. Analogizing the self-directed model as like comparing a rusty can opener vs. a smooth-turning one with “OXO-style grips,” she says homework provides a […]

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