On Tuesday, at least three members of Christian group Luke 24 vs 47 demonstrated first on the Green and later outside of Dirt Cowboy Cafe, where they preached their beliefs to passersby. One member used a microphone to broadcast the group's ideologies across the Green, declaring "You can't have parties in heaven" and "Life is short, eternity is longer." Another member handed out pamphlets and movies. Group members travel together to spread their message, with visits to the University of New Hampshire, the University of Maine at Portland and the University of Massachusetts at Boston scheduled later this month, and have held past demonstrations in Jamaica and the United Kingdom.
Fourteen untenured lecturers at Emory University learned they lost their jobs after the university changed employment guidelines without notifying faculty, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. The insertion of two paragraphs into Emory's guidelines for appointing and reviewing lecture-track faculty who are hired on a multiyear, contractual basis was completed during summer 2012. The members of the lecturers' executive committee decided the new section, which states that lecture-track faculty will be renewed only if there is a department need and if their performance has been satisfactory, did not need approval because the changes simply clarified longstanding policy for the university.
Harvard University created a new administrative position on Monday to oversee the school's increasing expansion into online learning, Inside Higher Ed reported. Harvard joins other elite institutions, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, that already have similar positions. Peter Bol was appointed to the post of vice provost of advances in learning and will oversee Harvard's online learning initiatives. Harvard officials said online learning is essential to the university's future and the position will help support this endeavor.
