Alex FriedrichAdjunct faculty members at Hamline University have voted overwhelmingly to unionize, the Service Employees International Union Local 284 said Friday. Read more →
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Adjunct faculty members at Hamline University are expected to begin voting tomorrow on whether to unionize. The employees have two weeks in which to vote, and the National Labor Relations Board should announce results a few days after that, said Denise Welte, organizing director for the Service Employees International Union Local 284. The union is Read more →
Judy White, a former National Trust for Historic Preservation staffer — and daughter of former Hamline University president Paul Giddens — gives the Pioneer Press her thoughts on Hamline’s decision to raze the old presidential residence on campus, where she lived for 18 years: “Just from my perspective, it’s a very disappointing outcome. I’m a Read more →
With some media outlets groaning yet again about the U.S. News & World Report rankings — a system they say provides perverse incentives that prompt schools to cheat in what’s really an academic beauty contest — I asked Hamline University President Linda Hanson what she really thought of them. She said they’re a good source of data such Read more →
The Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal discusses a Wall Street Journal article that lists Hamline University‘s law school as one of many across the nation making cuts in the face of declining enrollment. It reports that the school has cut its full-time faculty by 18 percent since 2010. Retirement-related attrition is reducing the numbers even more. The Journal Read more →
“Please note, if you have another development and don’t want to come to Hamline on a full-time basis, you can always teach next spring as an adjunct to get your feet wet and embark on a teaching career.” — A note that jilted teaching candidate Tom Emmer says came from Anne McCarthy, dean of Hamline Read more →
In writing about the Hamline-Emmer hiring controversy, I asked dozens of faculty and administrators in our Public Insight Network how much of a role personal politics should, and does, play in the hiring of tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty. (Emmer was reportedly rejected over his political views, including his vocal opposition to same-sex marriage.) The general Read more →
“That would be money wasted.” — Associate professor Jim Bonilla of Hamline University to the Pioneer Press on the consequence of Hamline hiring Tom Emmer — who’s vocally opposed to same-sex marriage — while maintaining a staff training program on creating safe spaces for gay and lesbian students. Bonilla also recalled to the paper the Read more →
Craig: I am the new Department Chair under which Business law falls. For the spring we are offering a session during the day and Tom Emmer is going to teach it. This is Tom’s first time teaching the course. I have given him a copy of your syllabus but am hoping you would be able Read more →