HIGHER ED FACULTY
The Ph.D. Pay Gap
May 12, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
How unequal stipends foster an unequal education read more >
May 12, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
How unequal stipends foster an unequal education read more >
May 11, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The director of Yeshiva College’s writing program refused to preside over cutbacks in full-time teaching positions. read more >
May 08, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
When a Polk State professor found himself accused of being anti-Christian, the college's leaders answered back -- and said he was entitled to academic freedom. read more >
May 06, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Jonathan Gottschall tried to save literary studies. Instead he ruined his career. read more >
May 04, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Trustees and Administration of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Failed to Demonstrate Cause When Rejecting Steven Salaita’s Appointment read more >
April 28, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A formal finding that the university violated principles of academic freedom sets the stage for a censure vote at the association’s conference in June. read more >
April 28, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A bill introduced late last month in the North Carolina General Assembly has set faculties across the state abuzz with a bold suggestion: Require all professors in the University of North Carolina system to teach at least eight courses each academic year. read more >
April 22, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Just one in four union contracts covering adjunct instructors includes any sort of provision ensuring them some payment when a course assignment is canceled read more >
April 21, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Just one in four contracts ensures the instructors even a small payment when a course assignment is canceled, an analysis found. read more >
April 21, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Thanks in large part to the activism of our members and allies, the House Finance Committee passed Sub. HB 64 this evening without the language that would have stripped faculty of their collective bargaining rights. read more >
April 20, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A measure inserted into the new state budget bill that critics call "anti-union" has drawn strong opposition from college faculty at Ohio's public universities. read more >
April 17, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Ohio budget bill proposes a ban on full-time-faculty unions at public institutions where professors do nearly anything beyond teaching and research. read more >
April 15, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
To observe the major forces at play in the education technology sector, one needed only to stand near the marble fountain in the Phoenician Resort lobby this week. read more >
April 13, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The "silver lining," says the AAUP’s annual report, is that for the second year in a row, pay rose faster than the rate of inflation. read more >
April 10, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Bean counters, bureaucrats, and barbarians are to blame. read more >
April 09, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Faculty link arms and stand between students and riot police on campus read more >
April 08, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The American Association of University Professors is standing by its conclusions that the University of Texas’ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center violated widely accepted academic principles in a new report that the center has pre-emptively challenged. read more >
April 07, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
If the end result is more excitement, more engagement, and hopefully more learning read more >
April 06, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
ONCE upon a time in America, baby boomers paid for college with the money they made from their summer jobs. Then, over the course of the next few decades, public funding for higher education was slashed. read more >
April 03, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Faculty and staff at Massachusetts's Roxbury Community College protest alleged lack of communication and changes pushed by the institution's president and her administration. read more >