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 >

Just one in four contracts ensures the instructors even a small payment when a course assignment is canceled, an analysis found. read more >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

Bean counters, bureaucrats, and barbarians are to blame. read more >

Faculty link arms and stand between students and riot police on campus read more >

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 >

If the end result is more excitement, more engagement, and hopefully more learning read more >

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 >