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The board of trustees of The College of DuPage, an Illinois Community College, have released a 230-point proposal for changes in college policy that students and faculty say violates established principles of university governance and academic freedom, and perhaps state and federal law as well.
The proposal, which the president of the DuPage faculty association calls “an attempt by the board to gain complete control over everything,” would give the board power to set specific policies on subjects ranging from curriculum to faculty salaries, grant them authority to veto speakers brought to campus, and place the student newspaper under the control of the college president.
The board’s action casts an already troubled college into further disarray. In May the president of DuPage was abruptly removed from office for reasons that were never made public, and just last month the chair of the board of trustees brought a defamation suit against three former board members who had complained that he had groped them and made suggestive comments to them during their tenure on the board.
Carol Elliott, Treasurer of New Hampshire’s Grafton County, was defeated in a bid for re-election this month by a twenty-year-old Dartmouth undergrad. And she’s not happy about it.
Elliott, a Republican who lost by five hundred votes to Democrat Vanessa Sievers, a Dartmouth junior, told a local newspaper that “it was the brainwashed college kids that made the difference” in the election. “I’m concerned for the citizens of Grafton County,” she said. “You’ve got a teenybopper for a treasurer.”
Sievers, a history and geography major, has experience as a bookkeeper and had worked on various New Hampshire political campaigns before running for office herself.
Elliott said she’s considering a run for the NH state legislature, so that she can “change the law” that allows college students to run for public office.
The Volokh Conspiracy comment thread about the adjunct prof fired for publicly identifying suspected plagiarizers seems to be dying down, but it saw a really interesting series of exchanges about campus honor codes yesterday. (I also weighed in on the ethics of the prof’s actions over there, if you’re interested.)
An adjunct professor at Texas A&M International University has been fired for publicizing the names of six suspected plagiarizers.
Via the blog Bitch PhD comes a link to an online Student Voting Rights Guide from the Brennan Center for Justice.
It’s an interactive guide — you specify whether you’re voting on campus or from your pre-college hometown, and it shows you the regulations on registration, residency, identification, and absentee voting for all fifty states. The rules show up as a color-coded map, and you can click through for specific information.
It’s a great resource for activists planning GOTV campaigns. Spread the word!
studentactivism.net 
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