Monthly Archives: September 2009
Faculty votes to cut its own wages by 10 percent
In a nearly split vote, about 8,800 California Faculty Association (CFA) members decided to cut their own wages by 10 percent this week.
The California State University (CSU) and the CFA finalized agreements Wednesday on two-day per month faculty furloughs in the vote that passed by 54 percent.
As a Cal Poly lecturer of 12 years, Sherrie Amido had to decide between the possibility of her job being cut or everyone’s salary being reduced. Continue reading
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Cal Poly on track for full Web accessibility by 2012
Looking into Laura Weiss’s piercing blue eyes, you’d never guess that she’s blind.
Although she sometimes returns the gaze — a habit she picked up from the first 30 years of her life when she still had vision — all Weiss can see now are faint blurs in her peripheral vision. Continue reading
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How to use social media in a global communications class
I’m meeting with a Cal Poly journalism professor Monday to talk about ways he can use social media as a supplement to his global communications class. I don’t know much about the class or the professor, but I’ve embedded the … Continue reading
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Could a budget crisis spur journ profs to innovate?
While checking e-mail on my stroll to work this morning, I stopped dead in my tracks. Twice. The first gasp of disbelief was after reading an e-mail from ostensibly one of the most “old-school” journalism professors at Cal Poly requesting … Continue reading
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