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Reaching All Students
Today’s college students come in all shapes and sizes, spanning many cultures, speaking different languages, learning in different ways. Included in our classes also are students of varying abilities and disabilities, including physical impairments and learning disabilities. How in the world can we design courses that reach such a diversity of students? Universal Design will help, says the author of this issue’s Thriving in Academe.
Professors and Supporters Set Up Picket Lines to Protest Stalled Contract Talks 
California State University professors and their supporters, including CSU students, begin informational picketing at the 23 campuses of the state university system, as contract negotiations between the California Faculty Association (CFA) and the university system bog down. Earlier, CFA members voted to authorize the CFA leadership to call a strike if a non-binding fact-finding process now underway fails to resolve the impasse.
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Poll Results
Does the use of departmentally chosen textbooks limit the academic freedom of individual faculty members?
Yes - 74%
No - 26%
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