Dozens of Harvard Law School faculty members are asking the university to withdraw its new sexual misconduct policy, saying that it violates basic principles of fairness and would do more harm than good. read more >

How the College of New Jersey reimagined what professors can do. read more >

The American Association of University Professors Foundation will give $5,000 to Steven G. Salaita read more >

Gates-funded project looks at how colleges could reduce number of sections, while theoretically being guided by faculty views on teaching. Will this approach change the discussion? read more >

Faculty members on California State University campuses participated in protests on Wednesday that called on campus leaders to help end their contract negotiations with the system. Among other things, the faculty members are asking for pay raises. read more >

A wave of organizing is sweeping contingent faculty. Below, a list of current campaigns in 22 states and D.C. shows how far and wide this wave has spread. read more >

Once upon a time, newly-minted science Ph.D.s would get research jobs at a senior scientist's laboratory, to train and hone the ideas they would explore at their own labs. read more >

That is a problem, because campus police departments are under the immediate control or influence of college administrators. read more >

Working off the tenure track, it’s easy to feel that you’re only a couple of dissatisfied students away from losing your job. read more >

The public university’s trustees have refused to recognize the Faculty Senate, which administrators have hit with an open-records request. read more >

Internet searches sometimes yield answers to questions that hiring committees are legally forbidden to ask. read more >

We cannot ignore the fact that administrative bloat – the huge growth in the number of administrators and their salaries – is one of the key drivers of college costs. read more >

How did this happen? read more >

After the University of Illinois revoked a job offer to Prof. Steven G. Salaita, a political theorist at Brooklyn College organized a counterattack. read more >

At least 124 colleges have acquired military equipment through a federal program that transfers military surplus to law-enforcement agencies across the country. read more >

This story is about how the administration of my university called the campus police on a bunch of professors as if they believed we might riot and how the campus police behaved when they responded to that call. read more >

The number of non-academic administrative and professional employees at U.S. colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, vastly outpacing the growth in the number of students or faculty, according to an analysis of federal figures. read more >

Humanities Ph.D.s are daring to enjoy their “regular” jobs, and the definition of academic success is changing. Sort of. read more >

Adjunct faculty members at the College of Saint Rose, in New York, have voted to unionize read more >

Faculty members on the University of Hawaii’s Manoa campus voted on Wednesday to censure the system president read more >