The PIE News
APRIL 27, 2024
Europe’s competitiveness in innovation and the practical application of scientific research is “lagging behind” the rest of the world, ministers told a conference of European universities on April 23. “Europe is still reasonably good in science, but it’s really lagging behind in valorising that science in industrial application,” said Michiel Scheffer, president of the board of the European Innovation Council.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
APRIL 27, 2024
Clatsop Community College has announced it will eliminate and restructure several staff positions in anticipation of a budget deficit for the upcoming fiscal year. College leaders have been vocal about financial difficulties in the past year and estimate a deficit of over $900,000. Interim president Teena Toyas, along with Bill Meck, who is advising the college on finances, forecasted the need for layoffs at board meetings as early as February.
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Academe Blog
APRIL 27, 2024
POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH This morning, on April 27th, the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee sent the following urgent message to Interim President Jameson, Provost Jackson, and Senior Executive Vice President Carnaroli in response to last night’s message threatening to shut down the student antiwar protest on College Green: April 27, 2024 Dear President Jameson, Provost Jackson,…
Economics and Change in Higher Education
APRIL 27, 2024
Rep. Kirk Haskins denounced conservative political attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion programs on college campuses in Kansas, but despaired at willingness of House and Senate colleagues to leverage a $36 million appropriation to state universities in an attempt to coerce the governor into signing an anti-DEI bill. Haskins, a Topeka Democrat and a professor at Baker University in Baldwin City, said he was offended a majority in the Kansas Legislature was so threatened by campus diversity
The Guardian - Higher Education
APRIL 27, 2024
The university has said it won’t give in to students’ demands – but it has budged before Rows of tents line the steps at Sproul Hall, the grand neoclassical administration building that soars up nine stories near the main entrance to the University of California, Berkeley. Thursday marked the fourth day of the Free Palestine Camp, one of dozens of sit-ins that have sprung up on campuses across the US as symbols of protests for a student-led pro-Palestinian movement.
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