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    GENOCIDE DENIERS SUE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, STUDENTS SUFFER FROM UNIVERSITIES' PART-TIME FACULTY
    By Jeff Dugas

    Campus Progress
    http://campusprogress.org/articles/genocide_deniers_sue_university_of_minnesota_stude nts_suffer_from_universit/
    Dec 1 2010

    The University of Minnesota was sued in federal court this week over
    allegations that a website for its Holocaust studies center violated
    First Amendment and due process rights in the way it portrayed a
    Turkish-American organization. The Turkish Coalition of America was
    named by the website as an "unreliable" source of information on the
    treatment of Armenians during World War I. Though a consensus exists
    among most genocide scholars that the treatment of Armenians by the
    Turkish government during this period constitutes genocide, a number
    of groups disagree, including the Turkish Coalition of America. The
    University of Minnesota insists that the material naming the group
    was removed as a part of a "routine review" and not as a result of
    the allegations. [Inside Higher Ed]

    College students may be learning from instructors who "lack the
    time and training to use effective teaching practices" according
    to a new study out of Michigan State University. The researchers
    focused on the differences between full-time and part-time faculty,
    and their findings show that part-time adjunct instructors are more
    likely to use teaching methods that are both less time-consuming and
    less effective. The researchers noted that they were not blaming the
    instructors themselves for the shortfalls, but rather the conditions
    under which they are forced to work. The researchers argue that
    colleges and universities should focus on converting multiple part-time
    positions into a few full-time positions, which is a change they say
    would benefit both the instructors and the students.

    [Chronicle of Higher Education]

    Education reformer Geoffrey Canada and former U.S. Secretary of
    Education Margaret Spellings met with prominent business leaders
    in Denver on Tuesday with a very simple message: "If the business
    community doesn't get involved in [education reform], you are just
    going to watch this country decline." At the Denver Metro Chamber
    of Commerce luncheon, Canada and Spellings urged business leaders to
    encourage innovation and reform in education while citing the United
    States' low worldwide rankings in math and science as well as the high
    dropout rates that have become the norm in much of the country. The
    dropout rates, he said, are a matter of national security - the
    Pentagon estimates that 75 percent of Americans ages 17 to 24 are
    ineligible to enlist in the military due to failure to graduate high
    school, criminal records, or physical fitness issues. [Denver Post]

    The Louisiana state school board is coming under criticism for its
    approval of life-science textbooks that do not provide information
    questioning the theory of evolution. Defenders of the textbook say
    that the criticism is simply a veiled attempt to promote a religiously
    infused creationist perspective on the origins of life. Those who have
    criticized the textbook feel that the approval is a manifestation
    of the "anti-Christian movement" in the country. The controversy is
    one in a long history of such evolution debates that have occurred
    in Louisiana since the 1980s. [Education Week]

    Jeff Dugas is the online communications intern at Campus Progress. He
    is currently completing his undergraduate education at George
    Washington University.




    From: A. Papazian
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