A strike by University of California patient care workers caused the cancellation of hundreds of surgeries, the closure of laboratory stations and the diversion of emergency room patients, officials said.
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5/22/2013
5/15/2013
Former Frederick Community College (Md.) president Arthur Talley received $90,000 in exchange for his January departure just six months after taking the school’s top post.
5/15/2013
Cuyahoga Community College (Ohio) has tapped Alex Johnson, who led the college’s Metropolitan Campus from 1993 to 2003, as its next president. Dr. Johnson, who currently serves as president of the Community College of Allegheny County in the Pittsburgh area, will replace Jerry Sue Thornton, who has led Tri-C through a period of marked growth over the last 21 years.
5/7/2013
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences announced that William Bowes will take over as CFO on July 1. Bowes most recently was chief financial officer for the Connecticut Colleges and State Universities Board of Regents for Higher Education.
5/7/2013
Newman University (Kan.) will have a new vice president for finance and administration later this year. Jennifer Gantz has been named to that position, effective June 1, replacing Mark Dresselhaus, who is retiring at the end of May. Gantz has been chief financial officer at The Independent School (Kan.) since 2007.
5/3/2013
As a readily accessible labor pool, student workers have long been an integral part of most institutions’ human resource planning, as well as a basic component of financial aid work-study programs. At Oakton Community College (Ill.) orientation sessions, new student employees get a crash course in business etiquette.
4/18/2013
An associate professor at Florida’s Brevard Community College has been fired after school officials say she handed out pledge cards to students urging them to vote for President Barack Obama.
4/18/2013
Raritan Valley Community College (N.J.) officials have tapped a former member of the college’s board of trustees to serve as interim president when the school's outgoing president steps down in June.
4/17/2013
A three-year faculty compensation agreement has been approved by the Southeast Community College (Neb.) Board. Faculty will receive an overall 3.36 percent increase in compensation, the first year of the agreement. That includes salary, health coverage and retirement.
4/17/2013
Kristine Duffy, vice president of enrollment management at Onondaga Community College (N.Y.), has been appointed the new president of Adirondack Community College, in Queensbury, N.Y., just outside of Glens Falls.
4/11/2013
University officials announced last week that the lawyer, John Wolf, had left his leadership position. Some politicians took that to mean that he had left the university entirely.
4/11/2013
The error likely affects almost every college employee, said Steve Baker, a spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association, which represents faculty members.
4/11/2013
College faculties have grown considerably over the years, and as the AAUP notes, the ranks of the tenured and tenure-track professoriate are up 26 percent since 1975.
4/4/2013
The report from the American Association of University Professors accuses Southern of freezing faculty out of the decision-making process as administrators looked for ways to cut costs.
4/4/2013
Cleveland State University's administration got a vote of no confidence Wednesday from faculty leaders who don't think they've had an appropriate role in the decision to convert the undergraduate curriculum to primarily three-credit-hour classes.
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