CSCU students and faculty push back against contract proposals
Adria Watson :: CT Mirror
CSCU students and faculty protest against the Board of Regents’ contract proposals outside of Central Connecticut State University on Feb. 26.
Connecticut State Colleges and Universities faculty and students gathered outside of Central Connecticut State University Friday morning to protest the Board of Regents’ recent contract proposals, saying the changes could lead to larger class sizes and possibly losing accreditation.
“The BOR must … understand their proposals are developed with union-busting in mind,” said Eastern Connecticut State University anthropology professor Sarah Baires. “And while they might believe they are attempting to build a better CSU system, they are ultimately destroying opportunities for students to be successful and hence undermining the future of the state.”
Technology | Comment 17 February 2021
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
BACK in 2015, I stood in a grassy field in southern Illinois, looking at a map of the 1000-year-old neighbourhood buried right beneath my feet. Nearby, cars drove by on a narrow road and a group of squat fuel tanks cast long shadows in the early morning sun. The place looked like the outskirts of a typical farm town, but the two archaeologists with me had uncovered something that couldn’t be seen with the human eye: not far below the ground were some shadowy blobs, arranged in a circular pattern.
Sarah Baires is an archaeologist …