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“Shame on you,” shouted those attending the Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting on Apr. 26, as each faculty member seeking tenure “failed” their run, in the words of Chair Debra Jenks (‘80). Following a grievance filed by the New College Chapter of United Faculty of Florida (NCUFF) after Interim President Richard Corcoran added a memo recommending denial to each of the tenure candidates’ files, six…

First they came for former President Patricia Okker, then they came for the Office of Outreach and Inclusive Excellence (OOIE). And on Apr. 26, the New College Board of Trustees (BOT) continued its trend of disruption by denying five faculty tenure applications, despite all five meeting the full qualifications. Interim President Richard Corcoran had placed a memo recommending denial in all of…

On Apr. 12, the New College faculty gathered for its monthly meeting, where professors discussed usual end-of-the-year agenda items and also tackled concerns surrounding their relationship with the new administration. The agenda included motions for endorsement of two statements: one from the New College faculty to the larger New College community in support of the Gender Studies Program, and the…

Just hours before the tenure application deadline, Interim President Richard Corcoran spoke to seven New College professors on Mar. 15, asking them to withdraw their applications. According to Faculty Union President Steven Shipman, Corcoran’s explanation for this was that he didn’t have enough time to review the applicants’ files and approve them himself—despite the professors already having…

Florida’s educators have found themselves the target of an ongoing culture war. House Bill 999 has recently joined the itinerary of Florida bills centered on parental rights and educational freedom, which severely restricts women’s and gender studies courses and majors and bans any diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs from state universities. All of these bills bar educators, from the…

Precarity or Solidarity: When Lives Are on the Line, Which World Do You Want?

Last week, Kutztown University faculty were greeting with the disturbing news that their administration had fired an adjunct faculty member just ahead of live-saving surgery because that faculty member did not have enough sick leave to cover their projected absence. Efforts by the local faculty union president, Amanda Morris, to secure a one-time agreement to ensure the faculty member’s access to…

Rider University President Gregory Dell’Omo

The Rider University faculty passed a no-confidence vote today against President Gregory Dell’Omo and his financial team.

Union leaders said Dell’Omo’s decision to institute program cuts and layoffs of tenured faculty just weeks after taking office in 2015, his refusal to seriously negotiate with the faculty union, and the decision to close Westminster…

Letters: Cerritos College Faculty Federation Executive Board Speaks Out Againt Working Conditions

  CROSSROADS Cerritos College is sixty years old this year.  The old saying is that nothing is certain but change.  This certainly applies to the college, the people it serves, and its constituencies, on and off campus. Some of us have watched it go from a bunch of bungalows,  to “junior college,” to a “community college,” to something else altogether. Cerritos College is indeed both in the best…