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A lawyer advising some of the suspended protestors stated that the university is planning to postpone suspended protestors’ Accountability Hearings until all have had their preliminary hearings.

A dispute at the Connecticut college over two deans’ behavior has administrators and professors at loggerheads regarding the limits of the faculty’s investigative authority. A professor’s complaint against two deans has grown into a conflict over shared governance and the faculty’s investigative powers at Trinity College in Connecticut. Last fall, the private college’s faculty ombud found that the dean of faculty, Sonia Cardenas, and an associate dean, Takunari Miyazaki, had tried to p...

According to Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs and Professional Education Tracey George, less than half of students complete course evaluations each semester.

With case numbers rising throughout Whitman County, Faculty senators expressed concern over the university’s handling of COVID-19 during their meeting on Thursday. Whitman County is over 1,500 cases per 100,000 — higher than it has ever been in Whitman County, Faculty Senate Chair Doug Call said. Senator Von Walden, professor of civil and environmental engineering, said...

ALBANY — Four of the dozens of professors given termination notices in December 2020 by The College of Saint Rose are suing to get their jobs back.

A year of changes: Faculty Council in review 14 May, 2021 Colorado State University’s Faculty Council had a full year of jam-packed meetings, covering various discussions, task force reports, elections, regular reports from President Joyce McConnell and Provost Mary Pedersen, as well as key revisions to the Faculty and Administrative Professional Manual. Included in these manual changes were revisions to Sections E and C, made in response to efforts to improve University commitments to di...

YouTube John Eastman, left, and Rudy Giuliani speak at the Jan. 6 pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C. Chapman University and John Eastman, a professor and former dean of the law school, have agreed that Eastman will resign, effective immediately. The announcement came one week after Chapman, the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law and Community Service, spoke at the Jan. 6 “Save America” rally in Washington, D.C. -- and after students and colleagues accused him of helping incite the riot at...

A law professor and attorney for President Donald Trump who repeatedly said the 2020 election was rigged and spoke at the rally that immediately preceded last week’s riots at the U.S. Capitol baselessly blamed the violent insurrection on “Antifa” on Wednesday. Chapman University law professor John Eastman, who last year spawned the birther theory that Kamala Harris was constitutionally prohibited from serving as vice president, was the target of backlash after appearing with Rudy Gi...

Print Chapman University’s president says he cannot and will not fire a professor and former law school dean amid growing campus calls for action against the faculty member’s participation in a pro-Trump rally during which he made claims about election fraud on the day a violent mob stormed the Capitol. “I am not the Emperor of Chapman University, nor am I the Supreme Leader of Chapman University. I am the President of the university, and as such, I am bound by laws and processes that ar...

Chapman University will not fire law professor who spoke at pro-Trump Capitol rally Nina Agrawal © (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) Chapman University professor John Eastman stands next to Rudy Giuliani, personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, during a rally near the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) Chapman Universitys president says he cannot and will not fire a professor and former law school dean amid growing campus calls for actio...