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Administration ranks grow faster than faculty at Texas, U.S. colleges The glass offices at the nation's leading universities have filled faster than the classrooms, with new layers of administrators added at twice the rate of faculty and instructors, according to a study being released today. Researchers who looked at employee categories at the top 196 universities from 1993 to 2007, a period in which college costs skyrocketed, said they found "administrative bloat." Six UTPA faculty members win 2010 Regents’ awards
The winners include three TFA members. Dr. Kenneth Buckman is the TFA State President and in 2009 was one of 15 professors across Texas to receive the 2009 Piper Professor award from the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation. Both Dr. Lavariega-Monforti and Dr. Elvia Ardalani are long time TFA members. Congratulations!!! ‘Clean the Rio’ Day
On a hot July day, EPCHE Members teamed up with the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) and Individual Owners of the Rio Grande (RIGO) to clean the Rio Grande. Volunteers collected over 2000 pounds of trash and debris. “It’s important for EPCHE members to volunteer in the community,” said EPCHE President Michael Coulehan, “We’re going to make this an annual event.” Over fifteen EPCHE members joined in the effort. “We really appreciated the response TFA generated and would especially like to thank the El Paso Community College and UTEP Professors who came out”, said RIGO President Phillip Partridge. In August, EPCHE will co-sponsor the ‘Kayak the Rio’. For more information, contact Michael Coulehan 831-5230 or tfaelp@yahoo.com. We would like to know about events at other chapters. If you have an event, or a news item regarding publications, awards, events or items of interest to our membership please send them to me at MaryA@tsta.org and we can share our successes and accomplishments.
- Mary Aldridge Dean, TFA Executive Director Texas Democrat and Republican platforms Here are highlights of both the Democratic and Republican party platforms for the state of Texas. You may also wish to view to the complete documents: Democrat and Republican. Please read these documents and consider them carefully before you vote and encourage your friends and relatives to vote as well. This election will have a profound effect on higher education. Professors Try to Shore Up Speech Protections Undermined by Courts Alarmed by a series of recent federal court decisions seen as endangering academic freedom at public colleges, faculty members at a growing number of public institutions are pushing their administrations to officially ensure their right to speak out on institutional governance and other matters related to their jobs. Policies protecting the work-related speech of faculty members are under consideration in the University of California and the University of Illinois... NCHE June Newsletter In my last editorial for the Newsletter, I wrote about Time for a Change. Well, things have changed! As we head into the NEA Representative Assembly, I would like to recap a few of the major issues we have been working on over the past ten months. At each NEA Board meeting, NCHE Vice President Cathy Boudreau and I met with Dennis Van Roekel, and this spring, we met with John Wilson to talk about the direction of higher education and the filling of vacancies. We were pleased to welcome Bryant Warren at the NCHE RAM in March, and we then focused on who would replace Con Lehane, our former higher education editor. Then, unexpectedly, Constituent Relations found itself without a manager or director... | 
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