(BCN) — The California Faculty Association will hold a week-long strike Jan 22-26 across all 23 California State University campuses. The association, which represents about 29,000 professors and lecturers, has been fighting for a 12% general salary increase for this year. However, labor negotiations with the chancellor’s office have been stalled for months. The university […]
The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 California State University professors and instructors, will hold a weeklong strike across the system’s campuses in January, including at Cal Poly, the union said in a news release. Barring any new action or agreement, the strike would likely shut down classes at 23 university campuses in the third […]
One day after President Robert Robbins announced a plan to amend the institution’s current budget shortfall, University of Arizona students and faculty are processing a flurry of changes headed their way. The Arizona Board of Regents, the body overseeing public universities in the state, heard Robbins’ plan in a special meeting Wednesday afternoon and implemented […]
Harvard faculty members and alumni voiced their support for the university’s president, Claudine Gay, in the wake of her controversial House testimony last week about antisemitism on college campuses. Harvard faculty members submitted a letter to the Harvard Corporation, which oversees the institution’s academic and financial resources, opposing calls to remove Gay. The petition, which has over […]
The American Association of University Professors has released a blistering assessment of higher education in Florida, saying its year-long “special investigation” revealed a system under assault from Republican leaders determined to limit academic freedom and impose their world view on the state’s public campuses. The report, released Wednesday, cited a string of laws, policy changes […]
It was a bright morning two Wednesdays ago, and Manan Ahmed, a professor of South Asian history at Columbia, was rushing across Broadway, trying to find a print shop that could make a giant poster on short notice. As he walked, he texted a few colleagues—classicists, anthropologists, other historians—asking whether anyone knew where to get […]
Faculty at California State University, the largest public university system in the United States, kicked off a series of one-day strikes starting Dec. 4 across four campuses to demand higher pay and more parental leave for thousands of professors, librarians, coaches, and other workers. Hundreds of faculty members picketed at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, […]