HIGHER ED FACULTY
How to Curate Your Digital Identity as an Academic
January 07, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
If you don’t manage your online presence, you are allowing search engines to create it for you read more >
January 07, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
If you don’t manage your online presence, you are allowing search engines to create it for you read more >
January 06, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
For years, Harvard’s experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar. read more >
January 05, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The National Labor Relations Board issued a ruling last week that could clear the way for much more unionization of faculty members at private colleges and universities. read more >
December 19, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
The National Labor Relations Board recently issued a decision significantly expanding the right of employees to use their employers' e-mail systems for union organizing read more >
December 18, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Marquette University has suspended with pay and barred from campus the tenured professor who criticized a graduate student instructor in a personal blog read more >
December 16, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Arizona State tells non-tenure-track English instructors to shift from 4-4 to 5-5 course load, without increase in compensation and in violation of professional codes on how many writing students one can effectively teach. read more >
December 15, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
In a significant win for labor unions, federal regulators ruled Thursday that employers can't prevent their workers from using company email to organize and discuss their working conditions outside of work. read more >
December 15, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Union advocates applauded two decisions by the National Labor Relations Board last week, one of which protects the right of employees using work email for union communications. read more >
December 12, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
An effort to increase the representation of women on the faculty and among doctoral students at the University of Michigan’s business school is showing results read more >
December 11, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Two universities have dedicated millions of dollars to foster educational change. But the impact of those efforts goes beyond the financial. read more >
December 09, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
For a rising generation of administrators in higher education, the heart of education is innovative technology -- and faculty get in the way. read more >
December 08, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Shirley Ann Jackson of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute earned $7,143,312 in 2012, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s ranking of salaries at private colleges read more >
December 05, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
First signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 as part of his Great Society campaign, the Higher Education Act’s original purpose was to solidify and expand the federal government’s involvement in higher education policy. read more >
December 04, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
A Republican state legislator in Wisconsin said Tuesday that he planned to introduce a right-to-work bill. read more >
December 02, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
A committee found the professor guilty of misconduct serious enough to render him unfit to remain on the faculty. read more >
December 01, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
New book seeks to shine light on the challenges dads face while trying to balance their home and work lives. read more >
November 25, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Hunter R. Rawlings III, president of the Association of American Universities, says that ideologically motivated and corporate-minded trustees pose a great threat to public colleges. read more >
November 25, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Union activity can lead to gains for adjuncts even when drives stall, fail or just loom. read more >
November 24, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
"It’s time to bring all of Tom together," the poet’s widow told the professor. "And I’m going to need your help." read more >
November 21, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Job security was always one of their top issues read more >