AT BOWLING GREEN STATE, post-union disunion. “Carol Cartwright, the university’s president, said the changes to the charter were merely an acknowledgment that the union is now the ‘exclusive representative’ of the full-time faculty for all matters related to wages, working conditions and grievances. That necessarily means that Faculty Senate committees shouldn’t be in the business of addressing those issues, she said.” With the Faculty Senate dissolved, the last vestiges of the old Republic are gone. Plus this: “For observers of the union movement in Ohio’s colleges, the recent events at Bowling Green State evoke a sense of déjà vu. The actions taken by the trustees there are not dissimilar from the steps board members took at the University of Akron, where faculty committee powers were dramatically altered in the wake of a 2003 unionization.”