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MT University System Faculty, Staff To Get Raises

The Montana Board of Regents has approved more than $1.3 billion in budgets for the coming year that include raises for most of the university system's 8,000 employees, breaking with other state agencies that have kept salaries flat.

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AP via The Boston Globe

College Union Workers Object To ‘Bonuses’

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system union workers say this is not the time to pay top officials bonuses and high salaries.

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Grand Forks Herald

UW-Madison Groups Campaign To Extend Ward As Interim Leader

Faculty, staff and student leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are so enamored with their interim chancellor that they're urging his bosses to extend what was expected to be a one-year term in the post.

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Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel

Regents OK Salary Hikes For Utah School Presidents

While faculty pay hasn’t budged on most campuses in three years, Utah college and university presidents will get raises under a plan approved unanimously Friday by the State Board of Regents.

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The Salt Lake Tribune

Embattled UW-Green Bay Official To Leave Job

A UW-Green Bay official facing questions about whether he retired and took his old position back so he could collect a salary on top of retirement benefits plans to step down in December, the school announced Friday.

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Wisconsin State Journal

Central Michigan U, University Faculty Await Fact-Finding Report

Central Michigan University and its faculty are waiting for a report from a fact-finder appointed by a state agency that could help settle their contract dispute.

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AP via The Detroit News

Faculty At Southern University Baton Rouge Split On Furloughs

Some Southern University faculty members want to withdraw their voluntary furlough agreements, but the administration is not planning to give in. "Our position is we're going to go forward with all of those who submitted their furlough agreements," Southern Chancellor James Llorens told The Advocate newspaper Wednesday.

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AP via NOLA.com

Career Cure

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Rockwell Career Center, University of Houston C.T. Bauer College of Business
Thomas W. Durso
University Business, Nov 2010

It wasn't an idea mentioned at a conference or a snippet noted in a magazine or a suggestion from a listserv that sparked Jamie Belinne's brainstorm. It was the time she spent waiting in her doctor's office during an illness six years ago.

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Payday Progress

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Division of Information Technology, The George Washington University
Thomas W. Durso
University Business, Nov 2010

There were any number of reasons why The George Washington University needed to automate the way it paid stipends to the thousands of students who work there as tutors, teachers, researchers, or facilitators.

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Database Management
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Deal May Be Near in Long Island U Strike

A faculty strike that disrupted the first week of school at Long Island University could come to an end on Monday, both sides said Friday after a new round of negotiations produced the outlines of a deal.

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The New York Times

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