Another College Murdered

BY HANK REICHMAN On Thursday, the Board of Trustees of the College of Saint Rose in Albany, N.Y., voted to close the school at the end of the current academic year.  Saint Rose President Marcia White confirmed the decision in a letter to the campus community.   Between 500 and 600 college employees will lose their…

Threats to Campus Media on Student Press Freedom Day

BY JOHN K. WILSON Today is Student Press Freedom Day, which promotes the importance of protecting the rights of student journalists. Today was also the start of questioning in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, where a key issue has been Trump’s extraordinary efforts to obstruct Congress and silence government employees by banning them from revealing the truth…

Saint Rose Leadership in Turmoil

BY MICHAEL DECESARE In 2016, the AAUP’s annual meeting voted to add The College of Saint Rose to the censure list. The most egregious of the administration’s and governing board’s many transgressions had been the termination of 23 tenured and tenure-track faculty appointments as part of a top-down “academic prioritization” process that eliminated a number of…