The part-time faculty union launched a walkout Monday, sending strong demands to both the institution and its own members. Columbia College Chicago’s part-time faculty members began striking Monday over the institution’s plan to eliminate 350 course sections across the fall and spring semesters, among other issues, their union president said.
Correlation doesn’t equal causation, but the Kansas university’s head-count troubles have worsened. Might other institutions following its example see a similar fate? On Sept. 27, the Kansas Board of Regents released encouraging news: overall enrollment in the state’s community colleges, universities and other public higher education institutions grew 2 percent from last fall, according to preliminary numbers.
A longtime faculty member at the medical school is being threatened with termination after interviews he gave to CNN and The New York Times. A Mayo Clinic medical school department chair, in a letter a free speech group shared online, threatened to fire a professor after a CNN interview in which he criticized the National Institutes of Health for not backing a COVID-19 treatment and after a New York Times interview where he suggested testosterone improves athletic performance.
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