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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Take Action: Tell NJTV to Tell Both Sides of the Story
| NJTV’s narrative of its April 26 news broadcasts describes a segment: “Professors protest at New Jersey’s universities, ” but the voices of the faculty, staff and students are excluded from the actual broadcast. Instead there is a five-minute interview with the William Paterson University President, whose representatives are making unreasonable demands of the education workers at the bargaining table.
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TCNJ Students standing up for higher education
The students, faculty, librarians and staff are standing up for higher education, demanding appropriate insight, input and accountability with higher education funding and fair treatment for workers. NJTV’s showed biased coverage of the contract dispute despite the fact that they had footage from a rally convened at William Paterson University by the American Federation of Teachers local. The rally was one of eight held throughout the state attended by thousands of students and workers calling for a fair contract and support for higher education. The reporter and crew interviewed students about student debt, taped speeches and a march across campus. The reporter and cameraman even conducted an interview with Assemblywoman Connie Wagner, who addressed the WPU rally and called for fairness and for the state to increase support for higher education. But none of this footage was included in the report, which was simply a vehicle for the President.
Rutgers University-Rowan Unversity plan can’t fly as is
By Gloucester County Times Editorial Board
Staff photo by Lori M. NicholsCandis Jones, of Philadelphia, walks by the Rutgers University-Camden campus earlier this year.
The uproar over Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed “merger” — a takeover, actually — of the Camden campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, by state-related Rowan University illustrates why politics and education don’t mix.
In January, Christie announced a limited realignment of the state’s higher education facilities which would grant control of the troubled University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey to Rutgers and, in some kind of trade-off, give Rutgers-Camden to Rowan. Details — the how and why — were unclear at the time and haven’t surfaced since.
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Gov. Christie, Cory Booker to deliver addresses at school choice conference in Jersey City
By The Associated Press
John Munson/The Star-Ledger Newark Mayor Cory Booker, left, and Gov. Chris Christie will speak at a national conference on school choice this week in Jersey City.
Both men are scheduled to speak at the American Federation for Children and the Alliance for School Choice’s major meeting. The groups advocate for giving parents more school options for their children.
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Norcross: RU merger deal due by July 1
Written by Carol Comegno, Staff Writer
South Jersey’s most influential Democrat predicted Friday that an agreement will be reached by July 1 on a controversial merger proposal for Rutgers-Camden and Rowan University.
George E. Norcross III told the Courier-Post editorial board that the agreement would include the Rutgers board of governors, Rowan administration and state legislators, hinting a union may take a different form than the proposal advanced by Gov. Chris Christie that would eliminate the Rutgers name in South Jersey.
“I absolutely see consensus and legislation by July for enactment of a conceptual plan,” said Norcross, the chairman of the board of Cooper University Hospital in Camden and a insurance executive.
For a number of weeks, he has taken part in private discussions with high-level Democratic legislators and Rutgers board members in what he calls a “catalyst” role to bring about a more acceptable plan to South Jersey and with it millions of dollars for Camden and the region.
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Richard Stockton College to increase housing for students
By The Associated Press
GALLOWAY — A southern New Jersey college plans to boost its available housing for students by more than 25 percent.
Richard Stockton College officials plan to have a private developer build housing for at least 700 students near the school’s athletic fields.
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Rutgers students again occupy president’s office
Police remove protestors of university-associated labor rights organization
Written by Bob Makin, Staff Writer
NEW BRUNSWICK — At a meeting last week, students were unable convince outgoing Rutgers University President Richard McCormick to disaffiliate with a labor rights organization because he said he thought it was doing a good job with an electronics manufacturer called Foxconn.
Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops staged a sit-in at the office of the university’s president, Richard McCormick, on Friday, demanding he disaffiliate with a labor rights organization of which they don’t approve. / Courtesy Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshop
But after up to 200 Chinese workers threatened to jump off the roof of a Foxconn plant in protest of wages, according to published reports, 22 students occupied the waiting room outside the president’s office on Friday for several hours before the threat of arrest broke up their sit-in.
Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops continued to demand disaffiliation with the Fair Labor Association because its efforts to improve labor conditions at Foxconn have failed, said Matt Cordeiro, outgoing student body president.
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College spent $15K to probe grading
By Patricia Alex, Staff Writer. The Record
Bergen Community College has spent more than $15,000 on an investigation into whether proper procedures were followed in changing grades.
Peter Helff, a math professor and outspoken union leader, said at least 15 teachers and administrators, including him, were interviewed for the probe.
Robert Fagella of Newark, Helff’s attorney, said he was told that the probe was a “general investigation” on grading and that it did not focus on any particular person or incident.
Fagella said his client followed proper procedures for changing grades but the documentation is now missing. “He went to the appropriate people and submitted the documents. Now they can’t find them, he said.
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Photos: TCNJ Day of Action for a fair contract and higher ed funding
The College of New Jersey students, faculty and staff rallied for a fair contract for workers and funding for higher education Thursday, April 26. Click the image above to see more photos.
