Faculty

The University of Colorado regents will reconsider a 45-year-old, rarely used policy that allows fired tenured professors to stay on the school's payroll for a year unless they are ousted for "moral turpitude."

After a state-appointed fact finder sided with Central Michigan University in a faculty contract proposal, university officials hope to soon reach an agreement.

The university backs away from knocking down its five-decade-old faculty club, instead opting to level a parking garage to make way for the new facility.

Southern University is switching to a four-day class week in January by doing away with Friday courses. Chancellor James Llorens tells The Advocate the university is making the switch to save on utility costs in buildings and to free up more time on Friday for student advising and faculty office hours.

The Daily Chronicle sent a Freedom of Information Act request to The State Universities Retirement System asking for the monthly pension amount for people who have worked at some point in their careers for Northern Illinois University and Kishwaukee College.

All last week, students at Smith College were buzzing over a rumor that the school was going completely vegetarian and locavore. There were protests and counter-protests, with slogans chalked on walkways. There was a Twitter feed that caught the attention of VegNews, “America’s premier vegan lifestyle magazine.’’ At a student government meeting, the dining services manager came under attack: How did she expect students to pass their midterms without coffee?

A California State University faculty leader is suing the CSU in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming that administrators broke the state's public disclosure laws this year by failing to reveal that the salary approved by trustees for the new president of Cal Poly was above the maximum published amount for that job.

Business scholar Steven Maranville left a tenured appointment with the University of Houston to teach at Utah Valley University two years ago, but officials fired him after a one-year probationary period when they concluded his teaching did not suit their students.

Some professors at Florida’s public universities make more than $500,000 a year, according to a database posted by Gov. Rick Scott, a move that angered faculty members.

A new study of faculty at universities nationwide says Eastern Connecticut State University has the largest percentage of minority teachers among Connecticut colleges and universities.