The highly-unusual merger of a large public research university and a 155-year-old private college is aimed at saving Bloomfield College — to be renamed, Bloomfield College of Montclair State University — after school officials said last year it might shut down due to financial challenges.
The plaintiffs, including the United Faculty of Florida union and individual teachers and students, are challenging three parts of the law (HB 233). The first day of the trial before Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker focused heavily on a requirement that colleges and universities conduct the surveys.
Faculty and professional staff at the City Colleges of Chicago have reached a tentative agreement on a new union contract and called off their planned strike later this week.
Striking Eastern Michigan University faculty members returned to their classrooms Monday, after their union reached an agreement with the university to end a walkout that started last week.
