February 2008 Alliance

• Budget Cuts impact higher education; Campuses scramble to mitigate pain.

• Reid breaks through barriers for higher education legislation

• GBC initiative: restructuring faculty evaluations
• $20 million gift to advance DRI water research
• NFA members among honorees named by regents
• NFA/UNR forum: Rights of untenured faculty

• Administration should provide job security, due process for adjuncts

• In times like these ... What’s the value of an Adjunct?

• Responsibility: Considering Your Rights

• NFA-South workshop reveals disregard for faculty rights

• Chapter tests the waters for WNC collective bargaining

• Whistleblower protections in Nevada

• Contract renegotiations underway at Truckee Meadows

• Nursing school at 50
• DRI addresses merit deferment, federal appropriations
• UNR journalism dean arrives
• Letter from NFA to Governor
• NFA seeks to match Rogers pledge

• Donation to help find cause and cure for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's

• NSHE team advocates for domestic partner benefits; efforts successful

• Public employees program approves health benefits for domestic partners

• Next decade: expect flood of college students
• Brainy fable