The plight of non-tenured professors is widely known, but what about the impact they have on the students they’re hired to instruct? read more >

The history of Medgar Evers College parallels that of many historically black institutions where shared governance has been an elusive goal. read more >

This idiotic political shorthand needs to die, once and for all. read more >

An analysis of more than 200 court decisions involving faculty members’ First Amendment lawsuits says colleges usually win. read more >

Kerry Ann Rockquemore offers questions for pretenure academics to consider before getting active on controversial topics on social media. read more >

As colleges expand on the web, a professor who builds a course sometimes must to trust another to teach it. read more >

Bernard Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont and long-shot candidate for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination, introduced a bill on Tuesday that would make attending all four-year public colleges free. read more >

Administrations, not department chairs, are responsible for making decisions about the pay of adjunct instructors. And for most, it’s not a priority. read more >

After decades of deteriorating conditions, adjunct organizing is the best route to meaningful improvement in the quality of higher education. read more >

New book proposes teaching-intensive tenure track to address what it calls the "real" crisis in the humanities. read more >

What happens when scholars discuss potentially controversial ideas outside the "bubbles" of their disciplines and academe? read more >

The professors’ association says both the public university and the Roman Catholic college trampled faculty rights in making unnecessary job cuts. read more >

How unequal stipends foster an unequal education read more >

The director of Yeshiva College’s writing program refused to preside over cutbacks in full-time teaching positions. read more >

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 >

Jonathan Gottschall tried to save literary studies. Instead he ruined his career. read more >

Trustees and Administration of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Failed to Demonstrate Cause When Rejecting Steven Salaita’s Appointment read more >

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 >

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 >

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 >