Hiring Bytes

Here’s the latest hiring news:

The York University strike continues, as government efforts to pass a resolution that would have ended the 82-day strike fail, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation reports.
Financial woes have led the University of Iowa to temporarily shelve searches for four high-level administrators, the Associated Press reports.
Kansas State University will interview the third and last finalist for the job of university president this week, The Kansas City Star reports.
The Associated Press reports that Stanford University’s athletic department is trying to decide whether to slash its staff and ax some sports teams in response to a projected revenue loss of $5-million over the next three years.
Meanwhile the University of Tennessee is looking for ways to use athletic departments to generate more revenue for the academic side of the house, Knoxnews.com reports.
Elsewhere in the state, at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, a professor is suing the university, claiming he was removed as head of the department of philosophy and religion for expressing concerns about a female professor who he said lied about her academic publications, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports.
Jane Margaret “Maggie” O’Brien, president of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, said she plans to step down by 2010, The Baltimore Sun reports.