stands out from faculty contracts elsewhere in allowing the cash-strapped university to circumvent the usual requirement that a formal declaration of fiscal crisis precede any decision to lay off the tenuredThe way things are headed, we'll get rather more play in the Chronicle before long.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
SIUC makes the Chronicle
We're back in the Chronicle of Higher Education, in a brief story from their "ticker" titled "Southern Illinois-Carbondale Moves to Subject Tenured Professors to Layoffs". The story is decidedly balanced, but does note importantly that the Board's "last, best, and final offer"
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