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OP-ED: Academic Publishing is Destined to Fail without Better Publisher-Author Partnership
by Ken Wachsberger
IN THE MAY 26, 2014 issue of The Nation, Scott Sherman wrote about the precarious state of academic publishing due largely to pressures it faces, including from declining library budgets, the rise of commercial…
WCC Prez’s Mentor Earns $500/Day Consulting for the Community College
by P.D. Lesko
THE PRESIDENT OF Washtenaw Community College describes the faculty’s no confidence vote in her leadership as akin to being hit with a sledge hammer. The reasons for the no confidence vote surround Dr. Rose Bellanca’s…
Days After U-M’s President Schlissel Starts Job, Feds Launch Title IX Investigation into Sexual Violence at Brown U. Where He Was Provost
by P.D. Lesko
In April 2014, Brown U. was in an uproar. There were protests about the “bungled” handling of a student rape hearing. Media described the protests as having provoked a “nationwide uproar.” Meanwhile on April 17 in Ann…
Retaliation for Airing Dirty Laundry? WCC Student Journos Fear “Autocratic” Prez May Shutter The Voice
by Rob Smith
IN 2005, WASHTENAW Community College President Dr. Rose Bellanca found her institution, Saint Clair County Community College in Port Huron, embroiled in an ACLU lawsuit over a gag order imposed on the college’s Board of…
EDITORIAL: WCC Graduation Rate
“COUNTY TAXPAYERS PAY $345 per $100,000 in taxable home value to support Washtenaw Community College. In 2012-2013, county taxpayers paid $45.9 million to WCC officials. In return the two-year college’s President Bellanca graduated just…
U-M Livingston Awards Announced for Young Journalists—No Michigan Journo Wins
STORIES ABOUT THE misuse of taxpayer money to fund private schools, life-threatening delays in blood testing of newborns and the plight of political asylum seekers won the Livingston Awards today.
The $10,000 prizes for journalists under…
OP-ED: An Education is Rarely Cheap, but you Don’t Have to Order the Caviar
by John Schneider
I’LL KEEP MY college commencement speech brief.
Dear graduates: Quit whining about your debts. You’re smart people. You were aware of the options. You made the calculation that an education was worth the financial…
U-M Lecturers’ Union Prez Calls Administrative Pay Scheme “Opaqueness by design”
The University of Michigan employs 1,500 non-tenured faculty. In 2013, while several top-level administrators were secretly given six-figure incentives, bonuses and pay supplements, unionized lecturers received no salary increase due to…
U-M President Stonewalls Public & Faculty Whistle Blowers About Secret Administrative Pay Doled Out
by Donna Iadipaolo
The Chronicle of Higher Education published information provided by a group of U-M tenured faculty that exposed millions in secret incentive and bonus pay given to top-level administrators. Faculty call for dialogue;…
EDITORIAL: The University of Michigan’s Secret Pay Enhancement Scheme Must Stop
DR. MARY SUE COLEMAN went to Lansing in 2011 to sing the praises of her university and to stave off threatened cuts to the $316 million dollar allocation the state of Michigan made to the University of Michigan in 2010. In her testimony,…