Education Secretary Launches Majors Review of Higher Ed

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Education Secretary Margaret Spellings launched a major review of the nation's colleges Monday, citing slipping U.S. performance and scattershot decision-making.

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Coalition Organizes a "Democratizing Education" Convention - October 20-23, 2005

"At this convention, we will also begin coordinating a nationwide direct action for the spring of 2006, which will allow us to coordinate our messages and energies immediately. Two proposals we expect to see raised at the convention are the coordination of a series of educational teach-ins combined with "Tent State University" direct actions, and the initiation of a process for a coordinated national higher education industrial strike. Other associated direct actions will likely be proposed. We encourage you to develop proposals as well; much of the convention will be devoted to discussing, deciding on, and planning these coordinated actions."

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Labor Board Sides with Contingent Faculty

Labor Board Sides With Faculty Union in Religious-Freedom Case
from the Chronicle of Higher Education
By John Gravois

After campaigning to win recognition of their union for over a year, professors at Carroll College, in Wisconsin, scored a major victory in late August, when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that unionization would not infringe on the college's religious freedom. It was a rare win for a union drive at a private college." Read on