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NEA Before the Supreme CourtA Florida higher education case tests the right of individuals to sue a state to enforce federal age discrimination laws. NEA attorneys went before the U.S. Supreme Court this fall to argue a
case brought by a group of United Faculty of Florida members from the Florida
State University system. The case, Kimel vs.The Florida Board of Regents, grows out of an earlier lower court decision barring the faculty members from suing the state of Florida under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act. The case, which began as a salary discrimination grievance filed at a number of campuses of the Florida State University system, has evolved into a complex legal question involving states’ rights and the 11th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Department of Justice joined the case in support of NEA’s argument that federal age discrimination laws protect state employees. The NEA-supported Campus Computing Project notes in its 1999 report that assisting faculty efforts "to integrate technology into instruction" remains the single most important information technology challenge confronting higher education over the next two to three years. Second ranked is “providing adequate user support” while "financing the replacement of aging hardware and software," is the third challenge. More on this and prior years’ surveys at: www.campuscomputing.net. |
