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Hundreds of thousands of students graduated from high school, applied to college and completed their degrees in the time Congress took to pass the 1,158-page College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2008 on July 31. The votes were 380-49 in the House and 83-8 in the Senate. The president is expected to sign the bill.
AFT Launches Higher Education Data Center
The AFT has just brought online the AFT Higher Education Data Center. It compiles, institution by institution, data on everything from faculty salaries, to instructional staff levels, to tenure rates, to institutional revenues and expenditures. Read more about it here.
IRS Changes Deferred Income Reporting
Beginning this school year, 2008-09, all employees who work on a nine- or 10-month cycle, but who elect to have their wages spread out over 12 months, must comply with new changes to the Internal Revenue Code. The primary requirement of the new section of the code is that you must sign a letter or send an e-mail to your employer before the start of the 2008-09 school year, stating that you will spread out your compensation over 12 months. The AFT sent a memo to all higher education locals providing guidance on this change. The memo can be downloaded here.
Meet the New President
Randi Weingarten, who was elected AFT president at the union's national convention in July, talks about her plans for the AFT, the 2008 elections, organizing, the vital role of unions in the country and more in this recent question-and-answer session with the AFT editorial department. (August 2008)
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