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College of the NorthSouth to Ban Faculty this Spring

Posted on Wednesday, January 16th 2013
Tags: adjuncts, faculty, robo-graders, technology
College of the NorthSouth to Ban Faculty this Spring
by Jack Snap Technology Beat Freelancer In its continuing quest to balance a tight budget and trim the fat from unnecessary overhead costs, College of the NorthSouth has announced that it will ban all faculty and formal classes beginning with the spring semester. “Students have voiced no objection to our innovative plan,” interim president Herb [...]

Campus Introduces Humiliation Games to Determine Departmental Budgets

Posted on Monday, August 20th 2012
Tags: budgets, collins, faculty, hunger games, resources, staff, suzanne
Campus Introduces Humiliation Games to Determine Departmental Budgets
by Lois R. Santtomly Freelance Writer In a post-apocalyptic world where funding for university departments has dwindled to almost nothing, one university took inspiration from popular literature to determine funding for the upcoming school year. Taking a page, literally, from Suzanne Collins’ hit series of young-adult novels and films “The Hunger Games,” Wrigley University in [...]

Governor Introduces the “Adjunctivan” as Green Budget-Cutting Measure

Posted on Friday, January 28th 2011
Tags: adjunct, budget, faculty, salary
Governor Introduces the “Adjunctivan” as Green Budget-Cutting Measure
by I.M. Knott-Tawkin Freelance Writer In a continuing effort to balance the state budget, incoming Governor Jane Kossack has announced a new cost-cutting benefit available to the state’s higher education institutions. The “adjunctivan” will circle the state, bringing qualified faculty members to remote locations, much as the bookmobile used to bring books to rural areas. [...]

Faculty in Uproar Over Connotations of “Development Day”

Posted on Tuesday, January 11th 2011
Tags: collaboration, faculty, relations, staff
Faculty in Uproar Over Connotations of “Development Day”
by Monty Tufnel Freelance Writer Faculty at Gwynn Oaks College in Oak Park, IN staged a one-day sit-in to protest the college’s newly designated “Development Day.” The all-day “Faculty In-Service,” as it was called for the last twenty years, was recently renamed at the suggestion of new president, Myron D. Schrenk. Jordan Wilkes Hammer, chair [...]

Using Technology to Return Faculty to the Center of the Universe

Posted on Wednesday, October 13th 2010
Tags: ego, esteem, faculty, professors, recognition
Using Technology to Return Faculty to the Center of the Universe
by Anselmo Watkins Freelance Writer A new Web browser conceived from a comic-book movie and created by graduate students at Chesecracer University in Colorado may hold the key to reducing incidences of depression and feelings of inferiority among high-level faculty members at institutions around the world. The “Browser in the Round” project, also known as [...]

University Clarifies Hierarchical Classification System for Staff

Posted on Monday, September 20th 2010
Tags: caste, classism, college, cupa-hr, faculty, hierarchy, hr, human resources, marginalize, rankism, staff, untouchable
University Clarifies Hierarchical Classification System for Staff
by Anselmo Watkins Freelance Writer In the latest move designed to minimize the potential for confrontation between faculty/administration and the staff that work for them, the University of El Dorado Office of the President announced Tuesday that they will institute a new system-wide personnel policy that borrows liberally from the Indian caste system. Beginning September [...]

Jesus Disappointed in Freshman Orientation

Posted on Wednesday, August 18th 2010
Tags: faculty, jesus, noda, orientation, quaker
Jesus Disappointed in Freshman Orientation
by Brody Truce Senior Staff Writer Student affairs staff at Danberry Quaker College in Plymouth Meeting, PA scrapped their freshman orientation plan this week after a revelation from Jesus Christ stating that he was “disappointed” in the college’s orientation theme. The revelation occurred during the weekly all-college Quaker prayer meeting, in which faculty and staff [...]

Students Shocked to Discover Departmental Secretary Not Qualified to Provide Academic Assistance

Posted on Tuesday, July 13th 2010
Tags: academic, advising, faculty, secretary, support
Students Shocked to Discover Departmental Secretary Not Qualified to Provide Academic Assistance
by Irma Pelt Senior Staff Writer Eddinger College is investigating multiple reports from students that Nancy Payton, secretary in the department of behavioral neuroscience, attempted to provide academic assistance to them. “I went in to the office because I was struggling with a lab assignment about neural mechanisms involved in obesity. I was hoping to [...]

Adjunct Adoption Agency Needs Your Help

Posted on Tuesday, July 6th 2010
Tags: adjunct, benefits, equality, faculty, healthcare, marginalized, professor, rights
Adjunct Adoption Agency Needs Your Help
Many young adjunct faculty across the nation have new hope of finding a home this year, as the Obama healthcare plan has extended benefits to dependent children up to twenty six years of age, if their employers do not provide coverage. “I didn’t think I’d ever have health benefits,” said Corinda Lopez, a part-time writing [...]

Faculty Member Denied Tenure: Too Popular, Research Too Accessible

Posted on Friday, June 25th 2010
Tags: accessibility, evaluations, faculty, popular, tenure
Faculty Member Denied Tenure: Too Popular, Research Too Accessible
by Anselmo Watkins Freelance Writer In his six years at the Terra Nova University, Professor of Sociology Phil Dunston has twice been voted professor of the year by his students. His 2008 book on the sociological aspects of youth football among the children of Pennsylvania coal miners, Blocking the Mine, is in its third printing. [...]
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