March 8th, 2010 12:32 pm by Kevin Robillard
Morning roundup: Getting smaller edition
Everything seems to be shrinking today.
- Your professor’s salaries. More than one-third of all college professors nationally had their pay cut last year, with the average pay cut totaling 3 percent, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. The drop comes after two consecutive years of four percent increases.
- Protections for gay college employees in Virginia. Actually, those aren’t merely shrinking. They could disappear entirely. Newly elected Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II sent a letter to the state’s public colleges and universities, ordering them to drop the protections against discrimination for gay employees they’ve adopted, The Washington Post reports. He argues only the state General Assembly can grant those protections, which the colleges adopted unilaterally.
- How much student loan reform would save. Earlier, the Congressional Budget Office had estimated President Obama’s proposed student loan reforms would save $87 million. Their new estimate? $67 million. Student loan providers, who vigorously oppose the bill, eagerly cited the new figure, The Chronicle reported. Inside Higher Ed reports Democrats may now turn to the legislative tactic called reconciliation to pass the bill.
Quick Hits
The university administration is hyping their fancy new budget central website, which debuts today. It has budget fireside chats with President Dan Mote and other new features. Look, it’s shiny!
Do you goof around on Facebook in class? You, too, can be a member of the Maryland General Assembly. The Post’s Ashley Halsey III reports a majority of the members of the House Judiciary Committee were playing on their laptops, three of them looking at Facebook, during a hearing in which relatives of drunk driving victims were weeping while telling their stories. You stay classy, state legislators.
Political prognosticator extraordinaire Stuart Rothenberg has downgraded Gov. Martin O’Malley’s chances at re-election from ‘Safe’ to ‘Narrow advantage,’ due to the likely forthcoming entrance of former Gov. Robert Ehrlich to the gubernatorial race.
Instead of paying his son’s $3,000 dorm bill, an ex-Philadelphia cop threatened to reveal Harcum College’s “illegal firearms” and “rampant drug use” to the district attorney, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
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