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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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Mediator to Hear Case of Seized Papers

WICHITA, Kan. — A federal mediator is expected to hear arguments next month over a grievance stemming from a fray between administrators at Hutchinson Community College and student journalists and their suspended professor. The dispute resulted in administrators cancelling media classes near the semester’s end and briefly seizing an edition of The Hutchinson Collegian. The […]

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Professor Groped Her, says Report on Slashing

RICHMOND, Va. — According to a police report, a Reynolds Community College professor allegedly touched a 24-year-old woman’s buttocks before she slashed him with a box cutter. The Richmond Times Dispatch reports that a Virginia State Police complaint states that the woman, Brittany Leigh Burfield, went to the office of Douglas Gava about 12:30 p.m. […]

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Woman Attacks Professor in Virginia with Box Cutter

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia State Police and Reynolds Community College Police are investigating an attack that occurred on the college’s Parham campus Thursday afternoon. The incident took place at roughly 12:30 p.m. when 24-year-old Brittany L. Burfield cut a male professor with a box cutter in his office in Burnette Hall. Burfield, of […]

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Student Suspended for Recording Professor’s Rant

A student at an Orange County, California community college has been suspended after he recorded one of his professors telling her class the election of Donald Trump was an “act of terrorism.” From the LA Times: In a Feb. 9 letter, Victoria Lugo, interim dean of students at the Costa Mesa college, informed Caleb O’Neil […]

Leadership

Faculty Votes “No Confidence” in College Head

BLOUNTVILLE, TN (WJHL) – The faculty senate at a local community college says it has no confidence in its president’s leadership. The vote was taken by the faculty senate, not the Northeast State Community College’s full faculty and staff. Faculty Senate President Francis Canedo notified President Dr. Janice Gilliam about the vote Tuesday morning saying: […]

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Alamo Colleges Trustees Drop “7 Habits” from Curriculum

The Alamo Colleges board of trustees unanimously voted late Tuesday night to remove all references to Stephen Covey and “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” from its leadership development policy for students and employees. The amended policy tasks faculty and administrators with developing a single district-wide leadership program aligned with a national or global […]

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Faculty Across Arizona Sign Letter on Protecting DACA Students

A top astrophysics professor, a dean of students, a vice provost and a chair in peace studies are among the nearly 1,200 faculty, staff and students from Arizona’s public universities and community colleges that signed a letter last week asking the schools to protect undocumented students. The letter specifically references students in the Deferred Action […]

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