Hiring Bytes

• In the spirit of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, Zuska explains why all you faculty scientists out there should give thanks to science administrators, who have to deal with this kind of stuff regularly so that you don’t have to.

• The City University of New York’s plan to raise its profile in the sciences by luring nationally recognized scientists in emerging disciplines and building new science buildings on several campuses is coming to fruition, The New York Times reports.

• According to an annual report released this week by the U.S. Education Department, one-third of college employees are part-timers, The Ticker reports.

• According to an article by Richard Evans on KeepCaliforniasPromise.org, a Web site of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, University of California faculty members may soon have their own personal senior administrator (hat tip: Edge of the American West). Huh?

• The governing board of the Utah College of Applied Technology is flip-flopping on its decision to rehire a controversial past president, Robert O. Brems, as the institution’s leader, The Ticker reports.

• Michael Bérubé urges all those who teach at a public university in the United States and care about their academic freedom to watch this video — or else: