Louisiana State University’s Faculty Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to censure three top administrators there over their dismissal of a tenured professor accused of creating a hostile environment in the classroom with obscene language and sexually explicit jokes. read more >

Good news! We had a very productive session on Friday October 2nd. We continued to hammer out the details of improving job security for non-tenure track faculty (NTTF) by providing continuous (rather than short-term) appointments. Our union and the administration reached conceptual agreement around many points, including the question of how evaluations will work for non-tenure track instructors in the years after they receive a continuous appointment. read more >

We met for an early and short bargaining session yesterday. Our team went into the session hoping that we could resolve our outstanding issues around the evaluation and transition of non-tenure track faculty members (NTTF) into a continuous appointment system. read more >

A philosophy professor who died earlier this year was making so little money at age 61 he lived in a room in a dilapidated boardinghouse. The story of Dave Heller is focusing attention on the plight of the temp college teacher. read more >

Three years after their nine-day strike that humiliated Emanuel and won national headlines for the idea of teachers fighting for students, the new attack on pay and pensions is angering teachers, paraprofessionals, and clinicians. Members have been demoralized by Emanuel’s school closings and layoffs that have left schools with bare-bones staff. read more >

For nearly three decades, the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance had counseled Congress and the Education Department on student-aid issues. read more >

State schools with the highest-paid presidents seem to be offsetting their administrative bloat with cheaper labor. read more >

The first time David Rosenfield went up for tenure, in the late 1970s, an academic career lay before him. The second time, 30 years later, he was trying to reclaim it. read more >

A federal jury has awarded $755,000 to a former public-safety officer at the University of Oregon after determining that his supervisors at the institution retaliated against him for blowing the whistle on mismanagement and a juvenile culture in the campus’s police department. read more >

We have a strong interest in providing real, meaningful job security for our NTTF. It’s not enough to simply change the title of one’s appointment and call it secure when the conditions of employment remain insecure. read more >

State College of Florida eliminates rolling contracts in favor of one-year contracts for all full-time faculty members, even long-serving ones. read more >

Faculty members in the University of Iowa’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences voted unanimously on Wednesday to censure the newly appointed president, J. Bruce Harreld, for inaccuracies on his résumé. read more >

The State College of Florida will no longer offer continuing contracts to new faculty members, a change strongly opposed by professors at the Bradenton college as well as its president. read more >

A part-timer comes to realize that she is neither incompetent nor insane read more >

The Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) is pleased to announce the hiring of Dr. Veronica Dujon as director for academic planning and policy read more >

In states with strong unions, the standard of living for all workers, not just union members, is raised. And those improved standards aren’t just limited to wages and benefits: States with strong unions also have safer workplaces. read more >

A state judge has ordered Pennsylvania’s public-colleges system to stop making faculty members undergo criminal-background checks read more >

The sponsor of a proposed ballot measure aimed at making union dues voluntary for public employees may well drop the initiative after receiving a politically unpalatable ballot title. read more >

The U. of Oregon’s big brand masks its fragile standing read more >

In today’s session, we finalized language describing when a continuous appointment (for non-tenure track instructional faculty) could be terminated. read more >