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.
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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.
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Just one in four union contracts covering adjunct instructors includes any sort of provision ensuring them some payment when a course assignment is canceled
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Just one in four contracts ensures the instructors even a small payment when a course assignment is canceled, an analysis found.
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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.
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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.
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Ohio budget bill proposes a ban on full-time-faculty unions at public institutions where professors do nearly anything beyond teaching and research.
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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.
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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.
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Bean counters, bureaucrats, and barbarians are to blame.
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Faculty link arms and stand between students and riot police on campus
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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.
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If the end result is more excitement, more engagement, and hopefully more learning
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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.
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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.
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A University of Michigan faculty committee accuses the administration of ignoring instructors’ due-process rights in handling complaints of sexual misconduct.
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A scholar who works with LGBT students fears a "brain drain" if the state doesn’t quickly reverse course on the controversial law.
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Wisconsin is now the 25th state to adopt a so-called “right-to-work” law, which allows workers to benefit from collective bargaining without having to pay for it.
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A theater professor fired by Pomona College accuses it of denying her access to students’ reviews of her teaching to hide its own discrimination.
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A plea for guidance to help the public handle its concerns about the effects of multitasking on education and family life.
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