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AFT Launches Higher Education Data Center
The AFT has just brought online the AFT Higher Education Data Center. It compiles, institution by institution, data on everything from faculty salaries, to instructional staff levels, to tenure rates, to institutional revenues and expenditures. Read more about it here.
IRS Changes Deferred Income Reporting
Beginning this school year, 2008-09, all employees who work on a nine- or 10-month cycle, but who elect to have their wages spread out over 12 months, must comply with new changes to the Internal Revenue Code. The primary requirement of the new section of the code is that you must sign a letter or send an e-mail to your employer before the start of the 2008-09 school year, stating that you will spread out your compensation over 12 months. The AFT sent a memo to all higher education locals providing guidance on this change. The memo can be downloaded here.
Read the AFT's New Statement on Academic Freedom
In response to ongoing political attacks on higher education faculty and staff, as well as the increasing reliance on contingent faculty who have little or no academic freedom protections, the AFT has just released Academic Freedom in the 21st-Century College and University: Academic Freedom for All Faculty and Instructional Staff. To learn more, read the press release and the full statement.
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Join us in Miami Beach, Fla., on March 5-8, 2009, for our annual AFT National Higher Education Issues Conference.
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