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The latest on the York University strike:
Five thousand students in four programs at York University will be able to return to class on Monday, as the Ontario Teachers’ Federation lifts its suspension of classroom teaching. The students, who will be taught by tenured faculty not represented by the striking union CUPE, represent about ten percent of York’s student body. The development was announced by the university here.
All four of Toronto’s daily newspapers — the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Star, and the Sun — published editorials this morning calling for legislative action to force an end to the strike. The Star also ran a news piece explaining why that’s unlikely to happen.
When Sarah Palin was nominated for vice president, her college transcripts got a lot of attention — she’d attended four (or was it five? six?) different schools on the way to her degree.
But Palin’s experience wasn’t as unusual as some made out. Multiple-transfer students aren’t common, but they’re growing less rare all the time, and these days almost a third of all undergraduates transfer at least once before earning their degree.
As a recent article points out, Barack Obama was a transfer student himself, as were six presidents before him. Jimmy Carter was a multiple transfer — he enrolled at Georgia Southwestern College and Georgia Tech for a year each before landing at the US Naval Academy.
Quick link: US News & World Report has a long article out on high schools that have been established to serve lesbian and gay student populations, particularly students who have been victims of bullying in school.
