<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>SCSU-AAUP</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.scsuaaup.org/?feed=rss2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.scsuaaup.org</link>
	<description>Academic Freedom for the Southern Community</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 18:10:56 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Labor &amp; Workplace</title>
		<link>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=870</link>
		<comments>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=870#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 18:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=870</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the spotlight this year on education reform and other issues, capital punishment and medical marijuana, lawmakers gave less attention than usual to labor and employment legislation.
Of the few proposals that advanced, only measures to increase the state minimum wage and unionize the personal care and child care industries gained widespread attention.
Here is a look [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=870</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Quest for College Accountability Produces Demand for Yet More Student Data</title>
		<link>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=867</link>
		<comments>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=867#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Basken
Despite growing pressure from policy makers and prospective students for colleges to prove their value, the institutions have often insisted that their unique missions make simple measurements forbiddingly difficult.
Now they have documented proof.
After three years of studying ideas for measuring institutional quality, an expert panel assembled by the National Research Council delivered a [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=867</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Professor Who Criticized Muslims on Facebook Sues Purdue University Calumet</title>
		<link>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=864</link>
		<comments>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=864#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO, May 16, 2012—A professor has filed a free speech lawsuit against Purdue University Calumet after the university punished him in the wake of his remarks about Muslims on Facebook. The PUC Muslim Student Association and several students and faculty members had filed harassment complaints against professor Maurice Eisenstein after he criticized moderate Muslims who he believed [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=864</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Court Rejects New Labor Rules That Eased Unionization at Private Colleges</title>
		<link>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=861</link>
		<comments>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=861#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 16, 2012, 11:20 am


A federal judge has struck down new National Labor Relations Board rules that made it easier for private-college employees to form collective-bargaining units. Judge James E. Boasberg, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, held in a decision issued this week that the rules are [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=861</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Dept. of Education Challenged by FIRE, Coalition about Silence on Threats to Student Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=857</link>
		<comments>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=857#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Related]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[You Should Read This]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=857</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, May 7, 2012—In an open letter sent today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and 19 other signatories urge the Department of Education&#8217;s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to address the threats to student rights posed by OCR&#8217;s &#8220;Dear Colleague&#8221; letter regarding sexual harassment and sexual assault on campus.
Today&#8217;s open letter asks OCR to remedy the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=857</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Court Ruling Landmark E-reserve Leaves Unanswered Questions</title>
		<link>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=855</link>
		<comments>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=855#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=855</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
By Steve Kolowich
As librarians and lawyers continue to pore over the 350 pages of a long-awaited federal court decision involving copyright claims levied against Georgia State University’s library by academic publishers, one thing everybody seems to agree on is that, all things considered, the university “won.”
But what victory looks like at this stage remains to be seen and may not [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=855</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>LEGISCAN: SB-40</title>
		<link>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=852</link>
		<comments>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=852#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[You Should Read This]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=852</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(link to SB-40)
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=852</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Artists Debate Whether the Discipline Needs a Doctorate</title>
		<link>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=849</link>
		<comments>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=849#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Related]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Berrett
John S. Powers used to rely on a mix of intuition and impulse to create his art.
Then he spent four years doing what very few artists do: earning a doctorate.
After completing his Ph.D. from the University of the Arts in Berlin, he found that his sculptures, many of which are exhibited in public [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=849</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Connecticut Legislature Approves Bill Limiting Remedial Course Work to 1 Semester</title>
		<link>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=845</link>
		<comments>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=845#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=845</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Chronicle of higher education
May 9, 2012, 11:11 pm


A bill approved by Connecticut lawmakers would require public colleges to limit the remedial-education requirements they impose on students to one semester and to provide more help to students in entry-level, for-credit courses instead, The Connecticut Mirror reported. The bill, SB 40, also would require colleges [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=845</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Education Dept. to Create Rule-Making Panel on Student Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=842</link>
		<comments>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=842#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 12:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scsuaaup.org/?p=842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(from the Chronicle of Higher Education)
April 30, 2012, 1:39 pm


The U.S. Department of Education said today that it intends to begin talks in September on new federal student-aid regulations, specifically relating to the use of debit cards to disburse financial aid. In a notice set to appear in Tuesday’s Federal Register, the department announced it [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.scsuaaup.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=842</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

