Democratic gubernatorial candidate Maggie Hassan spoke to 20 students in One Wheelock on Friday, briefly discussing her background as a state senator before elaborating on her "innovation plan" to strengthen New Hampshire's economy and contrasting her policies with those of Republican candidate Ovide Lamontagne. In the 40-minute appearance, Hassan also addressed her education policy, calling for a tuition freeze for the New Hampshire state university system and better science, technology, engineering and mathematics standards in grades K-12. In a question-and-answer session following her talk, Hassan responded to student concerns about new voter ID legislation, promising to fight for student voting rights.
In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., former Yale Medical Group Director of Finance Martin Donovan, is suing Yale University for age discrimination after being fired in March 2011, according to The Yale Daily News. Donovan, who is 63 years old and worked at the Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale University School of Medicine for 32 years, claims that despite his dedicated work for the university, he faced intense scrutiny after informing his superiors that he had no intention of retiring in May 2010. Yale University Spokesman Tom Conroy said that the university will contest the claim but declined to comment further, citing a university policy against sharing employee records and discussing personnel actions, according to The Hartford Courant.
California legislators advocating for Proposition 30, which calls for a temporary increase in income taxes for high-earning individuals and an increase on the state's sales tax to fund state services, including the state university system, are vying for student and faculty support for the measure, according to Inside Higher Ed. Supporters argue that a failure to pass the measure will likely lead to tuition hikes and reduced course offerings across the University of California and the California State University systems as soon as early 2013, Inside Higher Ed reported. Opponents of the measure claim that there is no guarantee that increased revenue will benefit state schools and argue that the government is using the threat of cuts to education to increase voter turnout, according to Inside Higher Ed. Despite controversy, 54 percent of registered voters indicated they would support the proposition, according to an August poll.
