11.28.2003
Friday Post-Thanksgiving Round-up
Thanksgiving was spent eating, sleeping, and watching West Wing and James Bond marathons. Campus Press Notes shall return on Monday.
"Student Group Lists Professors It Considers Too Politicized" was in Monday's Washington Post.
Gov turns UMass pay raise into one-time bonus, writes the Boston Herald's Elisabeth Beardsley: "University of Massachusetts faculty members are in line for a whopping 15 percent pay raise - with a major catch that's left them howling - after Gov. Mitt Romney signed an $81.1 million emergency spending bill yesterday..." The Fitchburg Sentinel has a bit.
MIT to temporarily shut down campus operations, cut costs due to endowment woes: "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will shut down parts of its campus over the holidays, and cut spending and jobs to close a looming budget shortfall spurred in part by lower-than-expected returns on its endowment..."
UMass Boston was going to have a campus-wide shutdown, but the proposal, after several months of negotiation between the unions and the administration, was killed by the president. More on that in next week's Mass Media.
The Boston Globe yesterday editorialized on the Heights' battle with Boston College over publishing restrictions.
AP: "American college students show broad interest in spirituality, but their involvement in formal religious activity sags while on campus, a new study by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute says..."
Student sues Mo. university over its 'restrictive' speech zone policies, from a Student Press Law Center press release.
"Student Group Lists Professors It Considers Too Politicized" was in Monday's Washington Post.
Gov turns UMass pay raise into one-time bonus, writes the Boston Herald's Elisabeth Beardsley: "University of Massachusetts faculty members are in line for a whopping 15 percent pay raise - with a major catch that's left them howling - after Gov. Mitt Romney signed an $81.1 million emergency spending bill yesterday..." The Fitchburg Sentinel has a bit.
MIT to temporarily shut down campus operations, cut costs due to endowment woes: "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will shut down parts of its campus over the holidays, and cut spending and jobs to close a looming budget shortfall spurred in part by lower-than-expected returns on its endowment..."
UMass Boston was going to have a campus-wide shutdown, but the proposal, after several months of negotiation between the unions and the administration, was killed by the president. More on that in next week's Mass Media.
The Boston Globe yesterday editorialized on the Heights' battle with Boston College over publishing restrictions.
AP: "American college students show broad interest in spirituality, but their involvement in formal religious activity sags while on campus, a new study by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute says..."
Student sues Mo. university over its 'restrictive' speech zone policies, from a Student Press Law Center press release.
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