Volume 2007
Issue No. 1
February 2007

Issues:

The NFA Alliance -April / May 2008
The NFA Alliance - February 2008
The NFA Alliance - November 2007
The NFA Alliance - September 2007
The NFA Alliance - April 2007
The NFA Alliance - February 2007
The NFA Alliance - September 2006
The NFA Alliance - November 2006
The NFA Alliance - April 2006
The NFA Alliance - February 2006
The NFA Alliance - November 2005

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February 2007 Alliance

  • Special Legislative Issue
  • Governor quick to demonstrate intention to save health care plan
  • Higher ed money committees to deliberate NSHE budgets
  • Gibbons budget, overall, supports higher education
  • Legal Defense On the fairness of evaluation and the shifting rules
  • Regents submit BDRs for key changes in Nevada statutes
  • AAUP proposes institutional regulation on part-time hires
  • 'Nevada Plan' gets thumbs-up from Gibbons
  • Long-time NFA member Glotfelty earns Carnegie Foundation award
  • NFA PRESIDENT'S CORNER: National AAUP to bring Summer Insitute to NV!
  • Workforce development at community colleges gets boost
  • Health Sciences is big issue in current session
  • Schofield named Vice Chair
  • UNR journalism dean killed in auto accident
  • DRI does well in Gibbons budget, funded for CAVE and water project
  • $600K awarded to fired professor
  • WESTERN CLASSIC
  • FACULTY SENATE CHAIRS CONVENE
  • When trouble arises ...
  • LOBBY STAR
  • PEBP Report: Rate-setting process (unlike sausage-making)
  • Experienced chairs Benefits program budget to be pondered by subcommittees
  • Western Nevada Community College College name change worries some
  • UNR Chapter Report Forum reviews faculty morale survey
  • Post-tenure review, respect, and having a big voice
  • Hartigan, Richardson address members
  • CCSN CHAPTER REPORT Henson speaks at fall assembly; chapter addresses 'quality of life'
  • CCSN chapter of NFA organizes summit meet with college president
  • NFA member Terry Jones prepares for faculty exchange stint in China
  • PA ponders fairness of state professors to conservative kids
  • An eye on higher education from AAUP and elsewhere
  • Adjuncts: 65% of all faculty New AAUP report lays out facts on increased use of contingents
  • FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT AAUP opposes changes in FMLA, asks for contingent faculty support
  • Wikipedia: a valid source? 'Teach students to go for quality not convenience'
  • Faust named new president of Harvard U
  • U.S. budget for 2007 advances Higher ed leaders luke warm
  • Higher ed advisor to governor: 'He's progressive, a maverick' INTERVIEW WITH PATTY WADE
  • NURSING PROGRAMS Equity study highlights existing and potential problems for Nevada
  • MILLENNIUM SCHOLARSHIPS NFA to monitor legislative debates on scholarship changes
  • Student loan debt heavier each year