Rate My Professors is a student evaluation site that frustrates many professors, who say that the nonscientific standards leave faculty members open to unfair ratings. read more >

Sixteen months after rejecting the idea by a narrow margin, adjunct instructors at Bentley University have overwhelmingly voted to form a union affiliated with the Service Employees International Union. read more >

It's hard to estimate how many contingent professors left their classrooms. But some who couldn't walk out still found ways to show their support. read more >

A prominent professor uses a disciplinary meeting to discuss his struggles with depression -- and encourages others in academe to talk about mental health issues. read more >

The American Association of University Professors is urging the University of North Carolina system’s governing board to reject a working group’s recommendation to close an independent center on poverty issues. read more >

A brash tech entrepreneur thinks he can reinvent higher education by stripping it down to its essence, eliminating lectures and tenure along with football games, ivy-covered buildings, and research libraries. What if he's right? read more >

Like many Americans, I’ve been wary of labor unions...I was wrong. read more >

If you can’t support adjuncts out of fairness, then support us out of pure self-interest read more >

These contingent faculty members now account for about 75 percent of the professoriate, surpassing one million in number. read more >

U. of Denver moves to new titles, a career path and multiyear contracts for those off the tenure track. Could this be a model for other institutions? read more >

As National Adjunct Walkout Day approaches, activists are wondering how to galvanize a collection of workers who drift from campus to campus. read more >

Full-time professors at Tufts University voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to unionize. read more >

A new Labor Board ruling could finally unstick the unionization of professors in the private sector—a project that’s been stalled for 35 years. read more >

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this week released results from a survey it commissioned of faculty attitudes read more >

Gov. Bruce Rauner, the newly elected Republican who has often criticized public sector unions, took his first step toward curbing their power on Monday by announcing an executive order that would bar unions from requiring all state workers to pay the equivalent of dues. read more >

It's widely acknowledged that adjunct instructors are underpaid, but just how much do they deserve? A new union proposal shocks some, but others say it's appropriate. read more >

A Berkeley analysis of disparities by race and gender in faculty salaries raises key questions: Which gaps matter? Why do gaps vary? What can be done to eliminate them? read more >

The National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday ordered its regional officials to reconsider labor disputes involving proposed adjunct-faculty unions at three Roman Catholic colleges in light of its December decision clearing the way for such a union at Pacific Lutheran University. read more >

Colleges increasingly turn to full-time, contingent instructors to handle work once done by tenure-track professors, a new study of federal data shows. read more >

The first National Adjunct Walkout Day is less than a month away on February 25, prompting adjuncts across the country to determine whether they'll be allowed to take part in the protest. read more >