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A real gut-punch: university professors protest funding cuts, added class loads in proposed pact
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Protesters gather outside at Southern Connecticut State University to call attention to a new contract between the Board of Regents and the professors that the professors say will harm students, cut funding and remove academic freedoms.Elizabeth Newberg
Students and faculty at regional state universities are calling on the Board of Regents to walk back recent contract proposals that, they say, threaten to gut the universities.
The proposals include larger class sizes, increased course loads and less department and library funding.
The proposals could also curtail academic freedom by making it easier to fire faculty and harder to appeal those firings, students and faculty said. ....

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