Super Committee cuts threaten higher education budget
By Matthew Matilsky / Staff Writer After the Super Committee’s failure to make appropriate spending cuts, an unspecified amount…
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OPRA helps protect NJ schools from scandals like Penn State’s
By Lucye Millerand We reel in disbelief over the tragic events at Penn State. We ask ourselves what can…
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College Staffing Grew in 2010, Most Heavily Among Part-Timers
The number of college faculty members and administrators edged up by 2.6 percent in 2010, to nearly 3.9 million,…
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Fallout From Penn State
By Allie Grasgreen Unfavorable public attitudes about the way Pennsylvania State University officials handled a scandal alleging sex abuse…
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The Kean mutiny: Faculty fights back
Teachers upset over direction of school, soaring debt; point finger at university president By Cheryl Hehl, Staff Writer UNION…
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Faculty Letter Calls on College Presidents to Protect Nonviolent Public Protest
An open letter assailing the violence against campus protesters this fall has been signed by hundreds of college and…
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Deficit Supercommittee’s Failure Triggers Steep Cuts for Education and Research
By Kelly Field Washington The Congressional supercommittee charged with cutting $1.2-trillion from the federal budget conceded defeat Monday, after…
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UC-Davis Chancellor Apologizes as Outrage Builds Over Pepper-Spray Use on Peaceful Protesters
Noah Berger for The Chronicle By Goldie Blumenstyk The outrage over a police pepper-spraying of peacefully protesting students at…
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At Baruch College, Tuition Protests End in Confrontation and Arrests
By Eric Hoover New York A young man chanted as three police officers wrestled him to the floor. “Students…
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Researchers Rate RateMyProfessors, and Find It Useful, if Not Chili-Pepper Hot
By Marc Parry The Web site RateMyProfessors evokes skepticism among faculty members. Some view the anonymous evaluation site as…
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Unions Confront the Fault Lines Between Adjuncts and Full-Timers
Some look beyond the big unions for real improvement in working conditions Unions Begin to Confront Fault Lines Between…
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New Jersey City University protesters adopt Occupy Wall Street lingo in protesting rising tuition, cuts to education
By Travis Fedschun/The Jersey Journal Wearing buttons that read “99%,” roughly 50 faculty teachers, staff members and students of…
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