Faculty Advocate Newsletter
May 2008
Subject: We Have a Contract! by Glenn Hansen
Late in the evening of April 15th, after thousands of hours and more than a year of negotiation sessions, the Faculty and Administration negotiating teams reached a tentative agreement. Our negotiating team has brought us this agreement with a recommendation that we ratify it. The team shared much-anticipated contract highlights with the Faculty during two sessions on April 17th. Their PowerPoint slides are more
ABD at COD by Jackie McGrath
When we return to campus in the fall after a summer full of rest, relaxation, or five- and eight-week lightning-fast teaching, don't be surprised if some of our colleagues more
A Brief History of ESSAI by Chikako D. Kumamoto, et al.
The premise of our initial project was deceptively simple: Let's get together and publish the exemplary academic writings done by COD students. The "us" included Jim more
Cyberlobbying SB2288 by Tom Tipton
I opened Internet Explorer, set my stopwatch, and 2:06 seconds later had lobbied Senator Durbin on the importance of preserving academic freedom in higher education. How more
Second Life Crisis by Richard Jarman
Second Life? I don't have time for the first one. As a lover of snappy subject lines, I wanted to use the first sentence as the subject line for a blog posting about Second Life more
Accolades by Mary Konkel & Ida Hagman
Read about the achievements of your colleagues in our new regular article. May features items on Adelman, Higgins, Kaur, Matos, Persky, Rundell, Smith, and Whisenhunt. more
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