George Huguely, a former lacrosse player at the University of Virginia, was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his former girlfriend Yeardley Love, a UVA student and lacrosse player, on Feb. 22, according to Bloomberg. After a 10-day trial in Charlottesville, Va., the jury recommended a 25-year prison sentence for the crime, Bloomberg reported. Huguely was also found guilty of grand larceny for stealing Love's laptop after attacking her, and the jury recommended an additional one year in prison, according to Bloomberg. The state of Virginia had originally charged Huguely with first-degree murder, robbery, burglary, breaking and entering and murder in the commission of a robbery, but he was found not guilty of these charges, according to Bloomberg. Huguely's lawyer defended Huguely's actions by linking his crimes to alcoholism, Bloomberg reported. Charlottesville Circuit Judge Edward Hogshire is scheduled to sentence Huguely on April 16, though Virginia law does not require a judge to impose the jury's recommended punishment, according to Bloomberg.
A study conducted by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources found that senior university administrators received a 2 percent salary increase on average in 2011, according to Inside Higher Ed. Following recent trends, median raises were greater at private institutions than at public institutions, according to Inside Higher Ed. Average salaries increased 1.4 percent in 2010 and did not increase at all in 2009, Inside Higher Ed reported. Despite these gains, however, increases in the Consumer Price Index a common measure of inflation have outpaced administrator raises, according to Inside Higher Ed.
Joshua Boldt, a writing instructor at the University of Georgia, created a crowdsourcing project that encourages adjunct professors to detail their pay and working conditions in order to recognize universities that treat adjunct professors well and expose those that do not, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Since its creation on Feb. 2, over 786 adjunct professors have contributed to the publicly editable spreadsheet and the page has received over 18,000 visitors, The Chronicle reported. Although adjunct professor appointments currently constitute nearly 70 percent of all faculty appointments, few studies have been conducted to assess their pay and benefits, according to The Chronicle.
