A federal appeals court has ruled that Pace University may not limit the size of the bargaining unit for adjunct professors, who have been trying to negotiate a contract since 2004, Audrey Williams June reports on The Chronicle’s News Blog. Read more.
Meanwhile, striking professors at St. Thomas University, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, have spurned the university’s final contract offer, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports:
The vote conducted Monday and Tuesday by the province’s Labour and Employment Board saw full-time faculty members reject the deal by a count of 74-28.
Part-time faculty voted against it by a margin of 31-18.
The faculty union is calling for both sides to return to negotiations. The administration has not yet said if it’s willing to do that.
The union has been asking for increased wages, more office space, and a reduced workload.
The offer that was voted down included a pay increase of three percent annually for two years and 3.5 percent in the third year.
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15 Responses to Labor Disputes Today
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squacky - May 21, 2012 at 9:45 am
It doesn’t take a futurist, a blogger, or a futurist and a blogger to identify all kinds of possible ROI for such projects. With the endowments of Harvard and MIT combined, they’re throwing a little more than a tenth of a percent at edX. $60M to create what is instantaneously viewed as the leading MOOC in all of higher ed? Being short on what amounts to pocket change is a good problem to have, assuming that MOOCs turn into something tangible, including the case in which they’re not the panacea.
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chrisfreeman - May 21, 2012 at 10:07 am
My bet is on the app store model with “in game” purchases/services becoming available.
johnminter - May 21, 2012 at 11:04 am
All of the alternatives you offer are viable – as H and M point out, it’s experimental.
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blue_state_academic - May 21, 2012 at 12:32 pm
The scenario that the author sets out in the last paragraph will only lead to the bifurcation we already have in higher education in the U.S. If you’re a rich kid who benefited from a good K-12 education, test prep, a college consultant, and two savvy parents, you get to go to Harvard or MIT. But if you’re a poor kid who’s bright and has overcome incredible barriers to just-about qualify for admission to one of these institutions – but not quite – then you get to go to “Virtual MIT” or “Virtual Harvard” for the first two years. Then if you’re really, really lucky, maybe you’ll get to transfer to the real campus. Not sure if sitting in your bedroom in your parents’ house staring at a computer screen for the first two years of college is a step up from community college or not.
siegalcollege - May 21, 2012 at 4:38 pm
There are all sorts of relatively easy ways to monitize these services, but only if the schools involved have the guts to really disruptively innovate within the industry of higher education. Otherwise there is little different here than the materials MIT has been putting on line for many years now.
mgozaydin - May 22, 2012 at 4:43 am
Dear Jeff
There are several mis-statements in your article .
1.- $ 60 million is nothing for this project. It is a peanut.
Imagine target is 1 billion students, yes it is not wrong, 1 billion.
( MITx has already in only one course 120,000 students , started 5.March.2012 )
If one charge only $ 10 per course assessment, that is exams , that makes $ 10 billion a year .
In order to collect $ 10 billion after 5-6 years I would be glad to spend $ 60 million now .
But do not misunderstand the intention of MIT or Harvard is not to make money.
There intentions are
– To make a research to learn ” how people learn ? “ getting the DATA from 1 billion people.
Not so many people can appreciate the value of that .
With that knowledge first they will improve the education on campus then online
– To select the smartest people of the world , then probably invite them to campus .
It is good for the world too. Smartest people of the world will have a chance to be educated
at MIT and Harvard .
– Really to educate the world at very productive way and get billions of thanks from the
parents and countries. It is a social responsibility to the world . That does not cost them
too much on the contrary they will make money as I said above $ 10 billion every year .
REPEAT it is not their intention to make money
MIT is just selling its existing assets which are fantastic , best in the world, at a very low
price to the world with which world can enjoy . But does assets are not materialistic, that
means one does not need funds to replanish it .
2.- My motto
– Top education
– By top schools in the world
– At a small fee, so that project is sustainable ,
– To everybody in the world, to millions so that fee is small
– With credentials ( That is at least some certificate , possibly with a diploma )
– ONLINE so that one does not need gasoline, clothing, or dormitory to go schools
MITx provide all these .
But Coursera does not do that .
– No charge, means , it is not sustainable
– No credentials. People need credentials, degrees to make living
I hope they will join to edx initiative. They are good schools .
3.- They do have business plans . How can you imagine they do not have a business plan .
You can only imagine 100,000 buying $ 1.99 staff . You cannot comprehend
the numbers 1,000,000,000 people and $ 10,000,000,000 . Can you ?
You make some right statements too.
1.- Sure MIT and Harvard know a lot you do not know .
MIT has 10 years experience with OCW which reaches to 100,000.000 people in the world .
I told you about their intentions above .
But please do not insult , I quote you :
” .. with their billions in endowments , do they have the luxury of throwing money ay ideas
to see which one sticks …”
THEY HAVE VISION .
2.- Yes. One of their intention is to identify the smartest people in the world. Is it something wrong ?
By the way I am Turkish, may be they will discover me in a village in Turkey . ( There is some
insult here but I do not mind to be a diamond )
Jeff
I hope you dare to response .
But I still thank you for your bringing up the issue of mass online by top schools which will solve the education problem of the world .
mgozaydin - May 22, 2012 at 4:54 am
Squacy
edx will reach to 1 billion within 5-6 years. If they charge only $ 10 per exam that is assessment, they will charge for assessments , that makes $ 10 billion a year.
If I know I will make $ 10 billion after 5-6 years even 10 years I would spend 4 60 million today .
MITx first course is being followed by 120,000 students already . I hope together with Harvard they will reach to 1 billion within 5-6 years .
Remember, when you increase the number of students cost to MIT does not increase too much just a little 1/1,000,000,000,000
Please go to http://mitx.mit.edu and see the quality of the first Electronic Engineering Course of MIT .
mgozaydin - May 22, 2012 at 4:57 am
Do not be pessimist .
mgozaydin - May 22, 2012 at 5:00 am
siegal college
Yes you are right.
One must have
” the guts to really disruptively innovate within the industry of higher education ”
They are MIT and Harvard so far .
Please go to http://mitx.mit.edu and see the first course of MITx and its quality .
cleader - May 22, 2012 at 7:30 am
I am less concerned about the business model than the students themselves. What are their expectations? As one in 150,000 in a MOOC, what happens to the student beyond “survival of the fittest?” Will it translate into the opportunities that economically disadvantaged and first generation students envision when taking these courses? Certainly, there are always students who want to learn for the sake of learning and they will be happy with this model. However, the greater global need is for access to the opportunities that elite or prestigious colleges provide.
J.K. Wall - May 22, 2012 at 9:09 am
#Colleges, #universities still searching for business model to support #MOOCs #highered #edtech
prof_giansunder - May 22, 2012 at 10:14 am
I am excited with the progress in quality of online learning. edX seems the way to go forward. Sustainability should happen if edX thinks beyond themselves. Look at the scenario, thousands of higher education institutes with teachers who are not well qualified and experienced to teach well. If these institutes can join hands with edX and use courses or part of the courses in stacks to award their degrees and diploma acknowledging edX or any other similar programme, there will be a nonlinear quality improvement of class room teaching and learning across the world. A nominal fee can be charged from the institute using courses and assignments by edX. In the future there may be add on courses delivered online for the teachers as well. And the thousands of teachers around the world can contribute in enriching the courses further.