Ohio General Assembly proposal: faculty should show school spirit by giving 110%

So the Ohio General Assembly is really at it: they’ve stripped out of Kasich’s budget and put into an education bill, HB 484, a stricture requiring public colleges and universities to up faculty workload “by ten per cent in the combined areas of instruction, advising, and research.” Maybe they just want us to give up service? […]

CSU-Pueblo, or Cold Mountain?: Administration screws up, faculty suffers

A video, in honor of More or less bunk, where Jonathan Rees has been chronicling Colorado State-Pueblo president Leslie Di Mare’s unilateral move to up faculty teaching loads from 3-3 to 4-4, as announced in this letter.  As Historiann has noted, Di Mare’s letter is all passive: rather than Di Mare taking responsibility for the […]