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Cihon & Castagnera, Employment and Labor Law 6th edition

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Employment and Labor Law, 6th Edition
Patrick J. Cihon - Syracuse University
James Ottavio Castagnera - Pinnacle Employment Law Institute and Rider University
ISBN-10: 0324649975 ISBN-13: 9780324649970
784 Pages Casebound
© 2008 Available in November 2007
About this Book
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Table of Contents
PART 1. COMMON-LAW EMPLOYMENT ISSUES.
1. Employment Contracts and Wrongful Discharge.
2. Commonly Committed Workplace Torts.
PART 2. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY.
3. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Race Discrimination.
4. Gender and Family Issues Legislation: Title VII and Other Legislation.
5. Discrimination Based on Religion and National Origin; Procedures under Title VII.
6. Discrimination Based on Age and Disability.
7. Other EEO Legislation.
PART 3. EMPLOYMENT LAW ISSUES.
8. Occupational Safety and Health.
9. Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
10. The Fair Labor Standards Act.
11. Employee Welfare Programs: Social Security, Workers' Compensation, and Unemployment Compensation.
PART 4. LABOR RELATIONS LAW.
12. The Development of American Labor Unions and the National Labor Relations Act.
13. The National Labor Relations Board: Organization, Procedures, and Jurisdiction.
14. The Unionization Process.
15. Unfair Labor Practices by Employers and Unions.
16. Collective Bargaining.
17. Picketing and Strikes.
18. The Enforcement and Administration of the Collective Agreement.
19. The Rights of Union Members.
20. Public Sector Labor Relations.
APPENDICES.
A. Civil Rights Act of 1964.
B. Text of Title 42 USC Section 1981.
C. Extracts from the Age Discrimination Employment Act.
D. Extracts from the Family and Medical Leave Act.
E. Extracts from the Americans with Disabilities Act.
F. Extracts from the Rehabilitation Act.
G. Text of the National Labor Relations Act.
H. Text of the Labor Management Relations Act.
I. Text of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.
Glossary.
List of Cases.
Index.
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Instructor's Manual with Test Bank
ISBN-10: 0324649983 | ISBN-13: 9780324649987
The Instructor's Manual provides solutions to end-of-chapter case problems, as well as additional information, supplemental Working Law and Ethical Dilemma articles, and extra case problems. A Test Bank at the end of the Instructor's Manual saves time creating tests by providing true/false and multiple-choice questions with answers for each chapter.
West's Digital Video Library Online Access
ISBN-10: 0324223285 | ISBN-13: 9780324223286

A new book on University tax issues

I wanted to let you know that the 3rd edition of my book, The Tax Law of
Colleges and Universities, published by John Wiley & Sons, is now available.

Information on the book, including a Table of Contents, can be found on the
Wiley website at
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470146095.html.

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A Study Abroad Audio Conference

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Internationalizing your campus

From NY Times "Education Life"

Report Available: Millennials go to College

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A
new wave of students is filling America’s colleges. Say hello to the
“Millennial Generation.”

Ever wonder why they are so
different?

Neil Howe & William Strauss...

coined the term “Millennial Generation”
were featured on the PBS Generation Next 2.0
special by Judy Woodruff

Their book, Millennials
Go To College…

was listed in the Chronicle of Higher Education
as “favorite reading” among university executives
was featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes for its insights
about Millennials Millennials
are nothing like the Boomer or Gen-X youth who
preceded
them.

They
are pressured and programmed. They are special and sheltered.
They are bonded to their parents and networked to their friends.
They want structure and instant feedback. They expect to be doted on
and served. They work well in teams and have complete confidence in
their future. They fear risk and dread failure. They have
conventional life goals. They want the system to work.

Would
you like to know how colleges can attract these students—and keep
them engaged, energized, and on track?

Millennials
Go To College offers the cutting-edge strategies for
recruitment, campus life, and the classroom that can give your
institution the extra edge.

The
authors, generational experts William Strauss and Neil
Howe, explain what colleges are doing right (and
wrong) with Millennials—from developing personalized recruitment
tactics to fielding intrusive parents to ramping up campus safety
and career guidance.

SPECIAL OFFER:
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Millennials go to
College features the latest data on the Millennial
Generation and on how they are changing—and will continue to
change—college life, including the results of newly released,
original surveys of students and parents. Howe and Strauss explain
everything from the decline in substance abuse to the rise of
“helicopter parents,” from shifting perceptions of race and gender
to new problems over debt, cheating, and peer pressure. They also
reveal the next big transition on the doorstep of higher
education—the transition to Gen-X “stealth-fighter” parents. For
each issue, the authors offer a hands-on list of “what to dos” for
anyone involved in college life.
“The arrival of this new
generation on campus presents great risks and opportunities for
today’s colleges and universities,” says Strauss. “Colleges who get
this generation right and market intelligently to today’s students
and their parents have a real opportunity to leapfrog traditional
rivals.”

National speakers and best-selling authors of such
books as Generations (1991), 13th Gen (1993),
The Fourth Turning (1997), and Millennials Rising
(2000), William Strauss and Neil Howe are America’s foremost experts
on generations.

Their how-to books on Millennials have been
sought-after by every institution that handles youth. Their
Recruiting Millennials (2000) was put into the hands of
every U.S. Army recruiting sergeant and has served as a guidebook
for every branch of the U.S. military. Their Millennials go to
College (2003, 2007) has earned them speaking invitations
to dozens of campuses and to every major national collegiate
association. Their Millennials and the Pop Culture (2006)
is helping the entertainment industry navigate the shoals of its
fast-changing market. And their Millennials and K-12
Schools (2008) is helping K-12 teachers, administrators, and
supervisors nationwide meet new youth (and parental) expectations.

Articles by Strauss and Howe, and reviews of their books,
have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York
Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, American
Demographics, Harvard Business Review, and other national
publications.

The original coiners of the term “Millennial
Generation,” Howe and Strauss have redefined how America thinks
about its post-Gen X youth. Their work on Millennials has been
featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes. The first edition of Millennials go to
College was listed in the Chronicle of Higher
Education as “favorite reading” among university executives.
Their insights into Millennials in the workplace have already been
tapped by some of the top HR outfits in the nation, including global
consulting firms like Mercer and Accenture, the U.S. Army and Marine
Corps, professional groups like the American Staffing Association,
top-shelf law firms like Bryan Cave, and large hi-tech manufacturers
like Raytheon, ITT, and Northrop Grumman.

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How
well do you know the Millennials?

Do you know that...

Seven years ago, in the first months after Columbine, older
teens wanted to increase rather than decrease school security by a
two-to-one margin, while younger teens said the same by a
four-to-one margin.

The percentage of freshmen who say they drank beer frequently
or occasionally during their senior year of high school has fallen
to its lowest level since this question was first asked in
1966.

In 2005, 67 percent of 15 to 22 year-olds rated themselves as
happy or very happy most of the time.

When asked which groups will be most likely to help America
toward a better future, teens rank “young people” second, behind
only “scientists.”

In the 2006 UCLA American Freshman Survey, 67 percent of
Millennial teens said it is essential or very important to help
others who are in difficulty—the highest response in twenty-six
years.

The share of teens reporting “very different” values from
their parents has fallen by roughly half since the ‘70s, and the
share who say their values are “very or mostly similar” has hit an
all-time high of 76 percent.

Nearly half of Baby Boomers, when interviewed, believe it must
be embarrassing for teens to admit they are virgins, yet only a
quarter of teens themselves agree.

An MTV survey of how much time teenagers spend on various
activities added up to 26 hours each day—not including sleep.

The majority of today’s high school students say they have
detailed five-and-ten year plans for their future.

According to the 2005-06 Horatio Alger survey, 79 percent of
high school students feel motivated or inspired to work hard.

An unprecedented and still-rising share of high school
students are aspiring to go to four-year colleges (7 in 10),
taking Advanced Placement courses and exams, and signing up for
academic summer camps and non-remedial summer school.
How
well do you know the Millennials’ new attitudes about college?

Do you know that...

Fifty-seven percent of college students consider the amount of
time they spend with full-time faculty to be “very” or “extremely”
important, according to the Chartwells 2006 College Student
Survey.

Between 2003 and 2005, spending on school-related items rose
by 33 percent, with particular increases in high-priced items like
cell phones, laptops, and portable vacuums.

The proportion of freshmen who enter colleges within 50 miles
of their parents’ home is considerably higher than it was 10 years
ago.

A higher share of men than women say that the “social” part of
college is “extremely important,” including such activities as
meeting new people, having fun, being part of a student body that
shares values, and joining an alumni network, according to the
Chartwells 2006 College Student Survey.

The proportion of incoming college freshman who say it is
“very likely” they will volunteer in college is at an all-time
high.

According to a recent MIT admissions report, Millennial
students are less likely to pursue one subject intensively and
more likely to spread their time and their talents among numerous
subjects and activities.

According to Universum Communications surveys, college
seniors’ top ten “ideal employers” in 2001 were 3M, Amazon,
Accenture, IBM, Walt Disney, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, BMW, Abbot
Labs, and Dreamworks. By 2006, seniors’ top ten list had shifted
to include the U.S. Department of State, Peace Corps, CIA, FBI,
and Teach for America.

A record share of new students report feeling so “overwhelmed”
that they have sought counseling, according to UCLA’s American
Freshman survey.

Today’s undergraduates agree by a six-to-one margin that they
spend more time planning for the future than their parents did at
the same age. How
well is your college serving this generation?

In MILLENNIALS GO TO
COLLEGE, find out why we recommend that
colleges...

Target parents as well as students in recruitment efforts,
marketing the institution as precisely fitted to protect and
educate a parent’s “special” son or daughter.

Offer tight cycles of feedback and redirection in the
classroom, including continuous monitoring of every student’s
progress.

Make campus security measures conspicuously present on campus
(uniformed security guards, signs announcing emergency situation
procedures, etc.)

Alert parents and students about FERPA privacy laws when they
arrive on campus and streamline the process of signing voluntary
disclosure forms.

Emphasize to male recruits that attending the college will
equip them not just with a credential, but with a pipeline to a
career.

Present the college to Millennial students as a unifier across
economic class, bringing people together from every walk of life
(emphasize how everyone is treated equally, what standards every
student is expected to meet, and what money cannot buy on
campus).

Monitor loners carefully. Amid this very social generation,
they may be more likely to become dangerous in extreme cases.

Harness students’ team skills in the classroom through group
projects, living-learning communities, and interactive networking
technologies.

Encourage physical activities that require no formal time
commitment to help relieve student stress levels and combat
obesity.

Ramp up infrastructure for professional-level student
activities and publicize these opportunities to Millennial
recruits.

Encourage professors to spell out clear academic goals, define
an objective measure of success, and offer frequent feedback on
students’ progress.

Integrate technology into the classroom across all fields and
subjects.

New issue of the NACUA News

Volume 32 - October 30, 2007

Dear Colleagues:

The 2007-2008 program year is now well underway. Committees have had
orientation conference calls and are engaged in their respective
activities; we are looking forward to additional committee meetings, the
Board of Directors' meeting, and our November CLE workshop, all
scheduled to take place next week.

This Volume features:

* NACUA Board of Directors Scheduled to Meet

* Reminder: There is Still Time to Register for the November CLE
Workshop

* Hold the Date: Next Virtual Seminar Scheduled for November 30,
2007

* New Publication Now Available on Student Risk Management

* NACUA Staff Member Moves On and Up

* Comings and Goings

NACUA Board of Directors Meeting

The NACUA Board of Directors will meet on Tuesday and Wednesday,
November 6 and 7, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC in
conjunction with the CLE Workshop. The proposed agenda for the meeting
can be found by clicking here
.pdf> . In addition, following the Board meeting, all of the Committee
reports will be posted on the NACUA website.

November CLE Workshop

There is still time to register
for the November 7-9
CLE Workshop, to be held in Washington, DC: Law and Electrons:
Computers, Copyright, Telecommunications, Privacy and Security on
Campus. Among the featured sessions are:

* The File Sharing Wars, Phase II

* Beyond Facebook: New Virtual Technologies Patent Law Update
- From the Courts to Congress

* Preventing & Responding to Information Security Breaches

* Creating IP Policies & Emerging Challenges in Using Digital
and On-Line Resources

* Copyright Wars: What's at Stake for the Academy & Publishers

* Flexing Fair Use Muscles

* Legal Ethics E-mail, Electronic Records & E-Discovery

* FCC Telecommunications Law & Policy Update

* Just Added: Implementing and Reviewing an Effective
Electronic Records Retention Policy

For more information about this workshop, please contact Meredith
McMillan at mmcmillan@nacua.org . NACUA's
block of rooms at both the Ritz-Carlton and at the overflow hotel, the
Washington Marriott, which is directly across the street, are sold out.
Please contact Meredith about alternative hotel options.

Hold the Date: November 30, 2007 - for NACUA's next Virtual Seminar
(12:00-2:00 p.m., EST, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. CST, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
MST, and 9:00-11:00 a.m. PST). The focus will be on Conflicts of
Interest, and will feature Stephen Dunham, Vice President and General
Counsel, Johns Hopkins University, and Mark Rotenberg, General Counsel,
University of Minnesota. Watch for more details, including registration
information, to arrive in your e-mail in-box in the next few weeks.

New Compendium on Student Risk Management Now Available

I am pleased to announce that we have published a new compendium: Legal
Issues in Student Risk Management, edited by Kimberly J. Novak and Art
M. Lee, both at Arizona State University. Copies are available both in
a three-ring binder and on CD-ROM. The table of contents can be
accessed by clicking here
t_Risk_TOC.pdf> , and order information is available by clicking here
d=STUDENT_RISK_BINDER> .

Special note for all NACUA members teaching a law of higher education
course: Additional information was added last week to the periodic
postings of new developments, clarifications, and errata
, which supplements
The Law of Higher Education Fourth Edition and The Law of Higher
Education Fourth Edition: Student Version.

NACUA Staff Member Moves On and Up

I wanted to share with you the news that Melissa Rooker, NACUA's
Assistant Director of Legal Resources, will be leaving to return home to
New York to assume the position of Director of Investigations, Office of
Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Columbia University. As
NACUA's first Assistant Director of Legal Resources, Melissa has enabled
us to expand our services to members. She has done wonderful work on
key NACUA products and programs, including producing numerous high
quality NACUANOTES, overseeing the production of several NACUA
compendia, creating the NACUA Clearinghouse of Training Materials, and
coordinating the pre-conference workshop for Lawyers New to Higher
Education, which last year achieved one of its highest ever registration
levels. We would not have been able to deliver the high quantity and
quality of these and other LRS services without Melissa as Assistant
Director. She has been a wonderful contributor and member of the NACUA
staff, and we will all miss her greatly.

We are in the process of advertising for Melissa's replacement. A
message was sent last Friday over NACUANET. We hope that you will share
the job description
with
others on your campus or elsewhere who might be interested in applying
for the position. For additional information or specific details about
the job responsibilities, please contact Karl Brevitz
.

Comings and Goings

Welcome to our newest NACUA members
, and
congratulations to those of you who have taken new positions
at
NACUA member institutions.

As always, please don't hesitate to contact me
to let me know if there is anything we can do to serve you more
effectively.

Sincerely,

Kathleen

Kathleen Curry Santora

Chief Executive Officer

New Fulbright to Attract PhDs

From NAFSA

On Campus with Women: the new issue

This issue of On Campus with Women raises, and attempts to answer, questions such as
"how do academic women use the Internet for career-building and networking," and
"how can Internet use both enhance their professional lives and accelerate student
learning?" Our investigation shows that with a little self-awareness and a lot of
tenacity, women are transforming the role of the internet in the academy--and
transforming their own work as a result.

Online now at http://www.aacu.org/ocww/index.cfm.

DOE floats new student-loan regs

From the federal register

Alums, get your checkbooks out...

... it's that time of year again.From the LA Times

Turnitin.com sued for nearly a million clams

Students sue the anti-cheating service.From the Washington Post

U. Michigan student diversity not badly battered by new legislation

University of Michigan press release

The New "Attorney at Large" Column

One Man’s Cage Is Another Man’s Freedom
By
James Castagnera
Attorney at Large
I was having lunch with my Havertown-attorney friend Ned McAdoo the other day. Recounting my experience last May as an Academic Fellow on Terrorism in Israel, a trip sponsored by Washington’s Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I remarked, “It’s amazing how tight security is in a city like Tel Aviv, and yet, the people seemed so laid back and fun loving.”
McAdoo, whose business-law practice sometimes takes him far a field, replied, “Sounds a lot like my experience in Singapore last year.”
“Tell me more,” I encouraged him.
Ned obliged. He told me that, as the jetliner banked and descended out of the clouds, the Singapore Airlines stewardess handed out little cards, meant to be carried wherever you went in the Southeast Asian city-state of some 4.5 million souls.
“Line one of the information card advised me that drug possession is punishable by death,” he remarked matter-of-factly. “Chewing gum on the street is a ticket-able offense,” he continued. “Littering results in a $500 and possible jail time.”
“It sounds like a real police state,” I ventured.
“Au contraire,” my worldly-wise companion replied. “Singapore is a democracy. Furthermore, I talked to plenty of people… in the hotel, restaurants, and stores. One conversation sticks with me in particular.”
“Do tell.”
“Well, I asked this guy whether it was tough living with all those rules. ‘Look,’ he said. ‘See that park over there? It’s spotless. And I can walk in it at three in the morning without fear of being mugged. That to me is real freedom.’ He continued, ‘I’ve been to your United States. The streets are filthy. And if you walk down one of those crummy city streets after dark, you’ll be lucky to only get mugged. Is that freedom… when you aren’t free to walk down your sidewalks?’
“I thought he had a point there,” McAdoo observed, before biting into his burger.
I carried that parable over to my own memories of Israel, and a mosaic of snapshots snapped into place. What McAdoo had learned in Singapore, I had absorbed in Tel Aviv. Some of those snapshots included:
• Women opening their purses for inspection by armed guards before being admitted into a shopping mall.
• Students having their backpacks thoroughly inspected by Uzi-wielding security guards at a turnstile positioned at Tel Aviv University’s main gate.
• Multiple inspections by hand and x-ray at Ben Gurion International Airport.
• Bouncers at the front doors of seaside restaurants packing .45s on their hips.
Yes, I thought, now I get it. How can I be free if I’m afraid of my neighbor, of the crowd, of my own streets? Freedom for the Israelis, like the citizens of the island nation of Singapore, meant freedom from fear and freedom to enjoy their lives. Most amazing of all, both countries are thriving democracies (albeit Singapore’s ruling clique hasn’t been seriously challenged at the polls in decades… perhaps precisely because their rule of law has been so effective).
As I headed home from my Saturday snack with Ned Mac, still another image popped into my old cranium… that of the fence separating the West Bank from the rest of Israel. Like some of Singapore’s laws, the sign on that razor-wired fence had struck me as draconian: “Mortal Danger” it had warned those who might contemplate an illegal crossing.
“Eureka!” I came close to shouting in the confines of my yellow Dodge Neon. “One man’s prison is another man’s paradise?” Maybe so. At any rate, as America moves closer to Israel in its security measures, I take some comfort from the knowledge that democracy and civilization apparently can survive, and even thrive, inside a fortress.
We in America tend to think of security v. freedom as a zero sum game: an increase of one always comes at the price of diminishing the other. Israel and Singapore suggest that a win-win is more than just hypothetically feasible.
[Jim Castagnera, formerly of Jim Thorpe, is the associate provost/associate counsel at Rider University. Ned McAdoo is the hero of his new novel about 19th and 21st century terorism, which is available at www.lulu.com. ]Ned McAdoo and the Molly Maguires

So what's not to like?

Big surprise: profs report hgih levels of job satisfaction.From the Chronicle of Higher Ed.See also"The Last Good Job in America?"

Invitation to a debate in Central New Jersey

The Rider University Institute for New Jersey Politics invites you to a
debate between the University Republicans & the University Democrats to
be held on Thursday, November 1^st from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in
Sweigart Auditorium. The debate will be on issues concerning the 2007
Legislative Elections and the 2008 Presidential Election.

ALF, Part 3: Why I use lab animals

UCLA Prof targeted by Alf explains.LA Times

A press release about DePaul Prof's privacy rights

10/31/2007
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**

www.academicfreedomchicago.org
Media Contact:
Daniel Klimek
773-817-1291
Dpk24g@gmail.com

Tenure Process Violated DePaul Professor's Rights,
Review Board says

Professor Mehrene Larudee's rights were violated by DePaul University
during her tenure process, according to a Review Board decision
issued October 26. Unanimously approved for tenure by her department,
the International Studies Program, as well as the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences (LA&S), she was turned down by the University Board
on Promotion and Tenure (UBPT) in May, and the president denied her
tenure in June. It is widely thought that she was denied for
supporting Prof. Norman Finkelstein during his controversial tenure
case last spring.

According to the Faculty Handbook, Larudee should have been notified
promptly both of the fact that the UBPT had voted against tenure for
her and of the reasons why. Had this rule been followed, she would
have had a chance to give the President reasons to reverse the UBPT
decision. The Review Board agreed that her rights were violated, but
offered no remedy, saying the Handbook has no defined mechanism for a
response to the President. Larudee insists the Handbook does define a
right to respond. The Review Board also rejected her separate claim
that her academic freedom was violated.

The Review Board ignored evidence, too, that the UBPT failed to use
criteria prescribed in the Faculty Handbook to evaluate her
performance, as the lower levels had. Many at DePaul wonder why the
UBPT failed to follow the written guidelines, and why the Review
Board made no response to Larudee's objections. Possibly the Review
Board decided this was beyond the scope of their mandate. If so, says
senior International Studies student Evan Lorendo, "I strongly
disagree. It implies that many rules for evaluating faculty for
tenure in the Faculty Handbook are unenforceable." Victor Lang, a
senior Economics student, says, "Larudee is an excellent instructor,
a good scholar and should be tenured. This is a loss for the students
of the International Studies Program."

The Review Board of three, a dean and two faculty, of whom one
recently served as an administrator, excluded faculty from the
College of LA&S where Larudee and about half of DePaul faculty
teach. Its decision stands in stark contrast to a recent report by
an ad hoc Academic Freedom Task Force of faculty in the College of
LA&S. The report insisted that if a candidate is endorsed for tenure
at the department and college levels—as Larudee was—then the UBPT may
only reverse that decision by uncovering procedural error or bias at
the lower levels. The UBPT decision against Larudee's tenure cited no
such procedural error or bias.

Larudee is exploring further action to challenge the tenure denial.

The denial of tenure to Larudee, and the fact that the Review Board
sustained that decision, has created a state of uncertainty regarding
the rights of faculty at DePaul University. Junior faculty in
particular are feeling pressure to avoid any stance that may be
construed as controversial.

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Michigan public employers must put insurance benefits out on bid

TO BID OR NOT TO BID? THAT IS (NO LONGER) THE QUESTION

New State Law Requires Public Employers to Bid Out Insurance Benefits

Effective October 1, 2007, public employers in Michigan--including
school districts and municipalities--may be required to solicit bids as
often as every three years for the medical, optical, and dental benefits
that they provide to their employees.

The Public Employees Health Benefit Act, Public Act 106 of 2007 (PEHBA),
authorizes--subject to collective bargaining requirements--provision of
health benefits through self-insured plans, employer-provided plans or
pooled plans.

A public employer or a pooled plan that procures coverage or benefits is
required, under the new law, to solicit at least four bids when the
benefit plan is established, and at least one of those bids must be from
a voluntary employees' beneficiary association (VEBA), as described in
Section 501(c)(9) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.

The employer or pooled plan is required to solicit bids even after a
plan is in place; the law requires a similar bidding process "every
three years when renewing or continuing a medical benefit plan."

When a public employer or pool uses a third party administrator to
manage a benefit plan, even the administrative services must be bid at
the establishment of the benefit plan and every three years when
renewing or continuing the plan.

The PEHBA also includes requirements for creating and maintaining pooled
plans, and sets parameters on the requirements for the pool including,
for example, that a pool generally must include at least 250 public
employees; it must accept any public employer that applies, agrees to
make the required payments and to remain in the pool for at least three
years, and satisfies other reasonable provisions of the pooled plan. Any
employer who leaves a pooled plan is precluded from rejoining it for at
least two years.

Predicting the practical and legal issues that may arise with
implementation of new laws is never easy, but among the most obvious
questions for public employers with unionized employees are:

- How will the three-year-requirement for bidding under the PEHBA mesh
with expiration dates of labor contracts?

- Will the bidding requirements of the new law complicate
already-complex labor negotiations?

- How will terms of the PEHBA, such as the provision that bidding is
required "when establishing" a plan, be interpreted?

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Scrub Those Files of Social Security Nos.

Advice from the Chronicle of Higher Ed.

Calling the Cops was Protected Activity

Scarbrough v. Board of Trustees Florida A & M University, (C.A.11
(Fla.))
westlaw.com/find/default.wl&serialnum=2013790979&dbe=RL%5E+LAY6LF%40F&SV
=FULL&findtype=Y&sp=nacua%2D1000&spou=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Enacua%2Eorg%2Fw
estlaw%2Fnewcases%2Fwestredirect%2Easp&rs=WNL2.0&vr=1.0>
October 23, 2007: Labor and Employment - A university employee's
involvement of the police in an employment dispute was protected conduct
that prohibited retaliatory action where the police involvement was
derived from an effort to protect against actions that were intertwined
and interrelated with alleged sexual harassment. The employee's call to
the police constituted protected activity under Title VII, as he was
threatened and physically accosted as a result of his rejection of his
supervisor's sexual advances, and could not constitute a legitimate,
non- retaliatory basis for termination.

Challenge to same-sex benies tossed out in Michigan

Compensation and Benefits
American Family Ass'n of Michigan v. Michigan State University Bd. of
Trustees, (Mich.App.)
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estlaw%2Fnewcases%2Fwestredirect%2Easp&rs=WNL2.0&vr=1.0>
October 23, 2007: Compensation and Benefits - The Court of Appeals of
Michigan has held that a non-profit corporation that brought a lawsuit
against a state university and its related entities, challenging the
university's policy of providing benefits to same-sex domestic partners,
alleging that this policy constituted illegal expenditure of state funds
to define and recognize same-sex domestic partnerships, in violation of
the State Constitution and state law, lacked standing to bring the
lawsuit. This was the case irrespective of any authorization by the
statute permitting actions to prevent illegal expenditure of state funds
to test the constitutionality of a statute relating thereto. The
corporation failed to establish that it had suffered any concrete and
particularized, actual, or imminent injury distinct from the citizenry
at large. The Court stressed that the corporation's assertion that the
university's policy conflicted with the corporation's general purpose of
promoting and preserving traditional family, marriage, and the welfare
of children was a mere bare assertion that it was being injured by the
policy, which was not enough to confer standing on the corporation

Stadium cited for lack of friendliness to disabled football fans.

Education Department Accuses U. of Michigan of Broad Violations of Disabilities Law in Stadium Changes

By BRAD WOLVERTON

The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has repeatedly violated federal law by failing to retrofit its 107,000-seat football stadium with adequate wheelchair access during multiple renovations, the Education Department said in harshly worded report released last week.

The 42-page letter calls on the university to make extensive— and costly— changes in the stadium or risk losing tens of millions of dollars in federal financial aid and grants awarded to students and faculty members every year.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education

Wittenburg U. not soft on soft prjectiles

Shooters sniping students with soft projectiles are sought by Wittenburg's public safety force.From the Springfiled News-Sun

Iowa campus cops get guns

Story from the Des Moines Register

An IRB Conference Invitation

Learn new tricks and
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Join 2,500 of your colleagues December 2-4 at the Sheraton
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A Confab on Knowledge, Culture and Organizational Change

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the Conference Organising Committee, we would like to inform you of the:

THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE AND CHANGE IN
ORGANISATIONS, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, 5-8 August 2008
http://www.ManagementConference.com

The primary interest of the Management Conference is knowledge-based social and
economic change. Driven by globalisation and advances in information and
communications technologies, this change has been characterised in terms of emerging
information/knowledge societies and a global knowledge-based economy.

As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference will
also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners,
teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the
Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for
publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and
Change in Organisations. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person,
virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for
refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well
as access to the electronic version of the Journal.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract)
is 8 November 2007. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission. Full
details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be
found at the Conference website - http://www.ManagementConference.com

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in
Cambridge in August 2008.

Yours Sincerely,

Martyn Laycock
The University of Greenwich, London and Managing Transitions
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in
Organisations

ALF just one of many types of terrorism we face

Tuning in to Terrorism
By
Jim Castagnera
(Attoreny at Large, May 2007)

I’m a coward. And I’m not afraid to admit it. In Catholic grade school I was one of the weenies the class bully picked on. My high school letter is in “newspaper.” You jocks out there didn’t know a guy could letter in something as wimpy as that, did you? When my 2-S (college-student) deferment ran out, I enlisted in the Coast Guard, correctly concluding I’d never come closer to Southeast Asia than Hawaii. In the event, I never got any farther west than Duluth, Minnesota, while some classmates sweated out their tours as grunts in Vietnam.
All of the above is in the interest of full disclosure. So when I tell you that later this month I’m off to Israel on an Academic Fellowship on Terrorism, you’ll know that I’ll be looking over my shoulder the whole time. Some 45 faculty from universities across the country were picked for this fifth-annual fellowship by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies [www.defenddemocracy.com]. FDD was founded by Steve Forbes, Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick and other, mostly conservative, philanthropists and politicians, shortly after Nine/Eleven to help support democracies and confront terrorists around the world.
My own interest in terrorism predates September 11, 2001, by a couple of decades. In 1968, when my 2-S deferment was still solid, Paramount Pictures came to my hometown of Jim Thorpe to film “The Molly Maguires,” starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris. With many other locals, I briefly worked on the film’s set. Ten years later, I devoted the central chapter of my doctoral dissertation to a discussion of whether the Mollies really were a 19th century Irish terrorist organization in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields. Or were they neophyte labor organizers, branded “terrorists” in order to hang them and ‘bust’ their union?
Whatever the answer to that question (still controversial), the U.S. is no stranger to terrorism. An anarchist killed President McKinley shortly after he was elected at the turn of the last century, ironically enabling his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, to become one of our great national chief executives. During the Roaring Twenties, Sacco and Vanzetti were executed as much because they were Italian immigrant-anarchists as because they may have committed an armed robbery and murder. A bomb set off on Wall Street by a fellow anarchist sealed their fate, even though the evidence of their involvement in a payroll heist left lots of reasonable doubts.
The Sixties were a decade of domestic terror, carried out in the context of the unpopular war I joined the Coast Guard to avoid. The assassinations of John, Bobby and Martin; the bombings, arsons, and violent marches orchestrated by the Yippies, Weathermen, and Students for a Democratic Society; and the war between the Black Panthers and the nation’s police all contributed to the atmosphere of terror. Why some Baby Boomers of my generation now romanticize and even glorify the Sixties is a mystery to me. To quote from novelist-newspaperman Philip Caputo’s recent reminiscence on the 1970 Kent State shootings, which were precipitated in part by the fire bombing of KSU’s ROTC barracks, “It was a dreadful time.”
The Nineties were no pastoral period in the U.S. either. The first Islamic terrorist attack on the World Trade Center early in the decade prefigured the horror in store for us in the first year of the new millennium. So did the Oklahoma City bombing at mid-decade.
Like most Americans, I’ve tried to keep my head down and myself out of trouble across the six decades of Cold War, hot war, civil unrest, and terrorism that have disturbed the peace during my life. Consequently, friends and colleagues have wondered why apply for a fellowship on terrorism that will take me to the roiling Middle East to study the topic on its home turf.
Maybe it’s because Nine/Eleven seems somehow different from all the other acts of terror I’ve recounted in this column. From the Mollies to Sacco and Vanzetti, down to Lee Oswald and Tim McVeigh, my studies of terrorism in America never led me to conclude that the Republic was in mortal danger from these wild-eyed radicals.
In 2007, when radical Islam is locked in mortal combat with Western democracy, and the potential weapons could include biological plagues and dirty nukes, this old coward isn’t so sanguine about our prospects. So, head down and eyes over my shoulder, I’m off to get better informed about what a “War on Terror” really means.

No More Net Neutrality?

Next big thing: Molasses-slow university web sites?

Joe Dysart

Part 1 of a series

October 2007

Slower download times for university web sites edged a bit closer to reality recently when the U.S. Department of Justice recommended against the concept of “net neutrality,” or equal access for all on the internet.

Joe Dysart

The decision, which emerged as an advisory to the Federal Communications Commission, has huge implications for higher education, which in many ways relies on the internet as its lifeblood.From the Greentree Gazette

Not exactly Santa's ALFs

A UCLA researcher who works with primates had his house vandalized by the Animal Liberation Front.From the Chronicle of Higher Ed

International specialists: a call for papers

Call for Papers: IIENetworker Magazine

Spring 2008 Issue: "International Student Recruitment and Marketing"

IIENetworker, the international education magazine of the Institute of
International Education (IIE), invites submissions for publication in its
upcoming Spring 2008 issue. Published twice a year, IIENetworker is a
magazine for international education professionals and policymakers and
publishes pieces on all aspects of international education in the United
States and around the world.

The theme of the upcoming Spring 2008 issue of IIENetworker will be:
"International Student Recruitment and Marketing." The aim of the spring
issue is highlight strategies and best practices for international student
recruitment and marketing. Proposed article topics should include:
challenges and opportunities in recruiting international students (both at
the undergraduate and graduate level), best practices, case studies, return
on investment, success strategies for participating in recruitment fairs,
the role of campus leadership in recruiting, and the challenges of marketing
to students in a variety of world regions.

This issue will also look at strategies for marketing to and recruiting U.S.
students to non-U.S. institutions. We also wish to present the issues from a
global perspective and specifically encourage submissions from Africa, Asia,
Latin America, Europe and Oceania, as well as from North America.

Most articles in the magazine will be between 2 and 4 pages (between 1000
and 1500 words).

Please let us know by November 9, if you plan to submit an article.

The deadline for submission of completed articles is December 14, 2007.

If you are interested in submitting an article for the Spring 2008 issue of
IIENetworker, please address all inquiries to:

Shannon Bishop
Assistant Editor, IIENetworker Magazine
Institute of International Education
Email: sbishop@iie.org
Tel: +1.212.984.5370

For more information on IIENetworker, please visit:
http://www.iienetwork.org/?p=IIENetworker

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Are more college students dying..

.. or are we just counting more closely?

1. Rowan Student murdered by townies.Courier post story
2. Rider student dies from heroin overdose.University Business article
3. Delware U. student dies from gun shot wounds.NJ Star-Ledger
4. Seven student burn in beachhouse blaze.Associated Press piece

The Last Good Job in America: Redux

The Magazine artilce.Download 0711_Castagnera.pdfFrom the November Greentree Gazette
The Book.A review
Some underlying data.From PennState
and the AAUP.

With Hilary looking like the Democratic nominee, time to recall a great woman leader of yore

First, new film about Elizabeth I.Reviewed by Jim Castagnera at The History Place
Second, books about Elizabeth I.Assorted Sources
Witchcraft laws under Elizabeth I.An article
A sample of other ELizabethan laws.A quick list
Criminal law in Elizabethan England.Toronto Law Journal

If organizational diversity is your passion...

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the Conference Organising Committee, we would like to inform you of the:

THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIVERSITY IN ORGANISATIONS, COMMUNITIES AND
NATIONS, HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales), University of Montreal, Quebec,
Canada, 17-20 June 2008
http://www.Diversity-Conference.com

The Diversity Conference has a history of bringing together scholarly, government
and practice-based participants with an interest in the issues of diversity and
community. The Conference examines the concept of diversity as a positive aspect of
a global world and globalised society. Diversity is in many ways reflective of our
present world order, but there are ways of taking this further without necessary
engendering its alternatives: racism, conflict, discrimination and inequity.
Diversity as a mode of social existence can be projected in ways that deepen the
range of human experience. The Conference will seek to explore the full range of
what diversity means and explore modes of diversity in real-life situations of
living together in community. The Conference supports a move away from simple
affirmations that 'diversity is good' to a much more nuanced account of the effects
and uses of diversity on differently situated communities in the context of our
current epoch of gl!
obalisation.

As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference will
also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners,
teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the
Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for
publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Diversity in
Organisations, Communities and Nations. If you are unable to attend the Conference
in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a
paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic
Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Journal.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract)
is 8 November 2007. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission. Full
details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be
found at the Conference website - http://www.Diversity-Conference.com

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in
Montreal in June 2008.

Yours Sincerely,

Sebastien Arcand
Professeur Adjoint
Service de l'Enseignement du Management
HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales), University of Montreal

Michele Glemaud
Executive Director
Montreal Hooked on School
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on Diversity in Organisations,
Communities and Nations

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First Amendment in Action: Take 3

Illinois town caught up in controversy over Witch School.Chicago Tribune

School in Rossville is branch of Chicago's Witch School International.Witch School website

Lincoln Christian College prof explains that Wicca is really kind of dull.Daily Journal story on Prof. Robert Kurka's speech at Rossville church

What the heck is Wicca, anyway?Article about Wicca

First Amendment in Action: Take 2

Drudge, New Republic battle over 'Baghdad Diarist'
October 27, 2007

IF this week's odd events involving the venerable New Republic and the raffish Drudge Report demonstrate nothing else, it's clearer than ever that an unnervingly large part of our public comment now occurs in what amounts to a deeply politicized Wild West, where virtual mob rule prevails.LA Times: Take 2