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		<title>Toward a More Perfect Student Unionism: Lessons From the Maple Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Biola Jeje and Isabelle Nastasia Activists from CUNY hold forth on what the US student movement needs now. We students have become morbid about our future. On campuses nationwide, it has become commonplace to see activists holding mock funerals for public higher education. At Brooklyn College at the City University of New York, we]]></description>
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		<title>Council Voice: More than 1,000 Protest for Higher Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that CWA recently settled their contract (subject to member ratification), we are not optimistic that the State and the presidents are willing to start to move to contract settlement and give us important contract language contained in the new CWA agreement. This is even more apparent because of the Rutgers settlement several months ago that contained salary language that the State and]]></description>
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		<title>Rutgers-Newark law school alumni oppose merger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AFTNJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The alumni association of the Rutgers School of Law-Newark is now on record against the proposed merger of Rutgers-Camden and Rowan universities. The association, which represents several thousand alumni, made public a letter to Rutgers&#8217; governing boards today. It questions the provenance of the original proposal &#8212; widely and rightly criticized as ill-conceived &#8212; as]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Stevens Institute of Technology president has netted more than $5M from school since resigning</title>
		<link>http://aftnj.org/topics/news/higher-education/2012/ex-stevens-institute-of-technology-president-has-netted-more-than-5m-from-school-since-resigning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger HOBOKEN — Stevens Institute of Technology’s former president has received more than $5 million from the university since he left in 2010 amid allegations of financial mismanagement at the school, campus officials said Wednesday. The payout to Harold Raveché — which came shortly after Stevens made a deal with the]]></description>
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		<title>Camden Opens New Chapter in Christie Education Reform Agenda</title>
		<link>http://aftnj.org/topics/news/k-12/2012/camden-opens-new-chapter-in-christie-education-reform-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://aftnj.org/topics/news/k-12/2012/camden-opens-new-chapter-in-christie-education-reform-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[City to be first test of Urban Hope Act, as district grapples with its own low performance By John Mooney What with its size and Facebook fortune, Newark gets all the press. But Camden is quickly becoming ground zero south for the Christie administration’s push for education reform. This week, the district will be the]]></description>
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		<title>Rutgers talks focus on boosting Newark</title>
		<link>http://aftnj.org/topics/news/higher-education/2012/rutgers-talks-focus-on-boosting-newark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Patricia Alex. Staff Writer. The Record. Buoyed by deal making in South Jersey, political leaders in the northern part of the state are pushing for substantial changes in Governor Christie’s university reorganization plan, seeking more autonomy for Rutgers-Newark and a strengthening of the state’s beleaguered medical university in that city. Newark Mayor Cory Booker]]></description>
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		<title>Hearings on Teacher Tenure Reform Delayed &#8212; For Now</title>
		<link>http://aftnj.org/topics/news/k-12/2012/hearings-on-teacher-tenure-reform-delayed-for-now/</link>
		<comments>http://aftnj.org/topics/news/k-12/2012/hearings-on-teacher-tenure-reform-delayed-for-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assembly and Senate committees wary to move as Christie warns he will veto ‘water-downed’ bill By John Mooney The drama over a teacher tenure reform in New Jersey continues to twist and turn, as legislators jockey for position and Gov. Chris Christie makes clear his opinion, if not his precise intentions. Much of the latest]]></description>
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		<title>Rutgers-Camden, Rowan University, Closer to a Compromise</title>
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		<comments>http://aftnj.org/topics/news/higher-education/2012/rutgers-camden-rowan-university-closer-to-a-compromise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AFTNJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autonomy and collaboration hallmarks of proposed relationship between two South Jersey schools Legislators and university officials are getting nearer to a deal giving Rutgers-Camden more autonomy from its New Brunswick campus and bringing it closer to &#8212; but not making it a part of &#8212; Rowan University. Sources with knowledge of the discussions said they]]></description>
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		<title>Sweeney: Rowan, Rutgers-Camden overhaul legislation coming soon</title>
		<link>http://aftnj.org/topics/news/higher-education/2012/sweeney-rowan-rutgers-camden-overhaul-legislation-coming-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://aftnj.org/topics/news/higher-education/2012/sweeney-rowan-rutgers-camden-overhaul-legislation-coming-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AFTNJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Osborne and Matt Katz, Inquirer Staff Writers State Senate President Stephen Sweeney said Tuesday he was working on legislation to be ready June 1 for restructuring New Jersey’s public universities. In an interview, he maintained that multiple options remained on the table, even as Rutgers officials suggested they were close to a deal]]></description>
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		<title>Kean U. Faculty Votes No Confidence in Board</title>
		<link>http://aftnj.org/topics/news/higher-education/2012/kean-u-faculty-votes-no-confidence-in-board/</link>
		<comments>http://aftnj.org/topics/news/higher-education/2012/kean-u-faculty-votes-no-confidence-in-board/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faculty members and librarians at Kean University voted no confidence in the university&#8217;s Board of Trustees this week, with 94 percent of responding faculty members saying they had lost faith in the board. Professors have clashed with the university&#8217;s president, Dawood Farahi, for several years. Tensions came to a head early this year when the]]></description>
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