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January 16, 2008, 12:58 PM ET

Hiring News Bytes

The College of Santa Fe’s governing board may declare financial exigency — a move that would allow it to fire tenured faculty members — in an effort to save the troubled institution, Scott Carlson writes on The Chronicle’s News Blog. Meanwhile, Montgomery College, in Maryland, will put a three-month hiring freeze into place for all nonessential administrative and staff positions in response to County Executive Ike Leggett’s request that all agencies cut up to 2 percent of their budgets, the Washington Examiner reports. The temporary freeze is not expected to impact hiring for full-time faculty members. And elsewhere on the News Blog, Audrey Williams June reports that some faculty members at the University of Montana are upset that administrators there are trying to create a job for the spouse of a professor they would like to hire. Read more.

Categories: Administrative-hiring, Faculty-hiring

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