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Duquesne University is moving forward with faculty cuts, informing some non-tenured instructors this week that their contracts would not be renewed.
The university had announced measures to reduce faculty as early as Dec. 4, according to an email shared with the Tribune-Review.
“As a first step, Duquesne has offered a comprehensive voluntary retirement incentive program to long-serving faculty,” the email reads. “As a second step, the university will not renew a subset of contracts of full-time, non-tenure track faculty and a few others who do not have tenure.”
Tennessee high school coach’s death underscores dangers of school reopenings and sports
A Tennessee high school football coach and teacher, 55-year-old David Picklesimer, died of COVID-19 on Sunday, becoming the latest of hundreds of educators that have died from the virus across the US. Picklesimer taught digital arts and design at Siegel High School in Murfreesboro, in Rutherford County.
Picklesimer passed away less than a week after Jeremy Morgan, a 44-year-old football coach at Forney High School in Forney, Texas, died of complications from COVID-19 on December 7. Also in Texas, a husband and wife both died from COVID-19 on Sunday. Paul Blackwell, 61, was a coach and taught physical education, while his wife Rose Mary, 65, was a bilingual second-grade teacher for over 20 years. Both taught in Grand Prairie, Texas.
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Citing “an alarming increase in covid-19 cases” and yet another surge expected to peak in January, Pennsylvania acting Secretary of Education Noe Ortega on Wednesday urged colleges and universities to delay the start of their spring semester.
Ortega also suggested colleges and universities use virtual instruction as much as possible.
“We are seeing an alarming increase in covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, and these trends are expected to worsen in January at the time when students normally return to campus,” Ortega said. “By delaying students’ return to campus, our institutions of higher learning can help slow the spread of the virus, help businesses to remain open, and protect regional health care systems.”
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