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April 03, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
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. read more >
April 03, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
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. read more >
April 02, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A University of Michigan faculty committee accuses the administration of ignoring instructors’ due-process rights in handling complaints of sexual misconduct. read more >
April 01, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A scholar who works with LGBT students fears a "brain drain" if the state doesn’t quickly reverse course on the controversial law. read more >
March 31, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
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. read more >
March 30, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A theater professor fired by Pomona College accuses it of denying her access to students’ reviews of her teaching to hide its own discrimination. read more >
March 24, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A plea for guidance to help the public handle its concerns about the effects of multitasking on education and family life. read more >
March 23, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The decision to shutter the college, a women’s liberal arts school in Virginia, has stunned students, teachers and alumnae, some of whom are rallying to try to save it. read more >
March 20, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The American Association of University Professors is deeply troubled that the United Arab Emirates has denied New York University professor Andrew Ross entry to the emirate of Abu Dhabi. read more >
March 19, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The American Association of University Professors says it is “deeply troubled” that a New York University professor, Andrew Ross, was denied entry to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, according to a statement released on Thursday. read more >
March 18, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
After N.Y.U. professor working on migrant labor issues is barred from entering the United Arab Emirates, questions emerge about implications for faculty at the university's branch campus there. read more >
March 17, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The United Arab Emirates, where New York University opened a new campus last year, has barred an N.Y.U. professor from traveling to the monarchy after his criticism of the exploitation of migrant construction workers there. read more >
March 16, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
N.L.R.B. revives bids for collective bargaining for graduate students at Columbia and the New School, potentially permitting new challenges to ruling that has limited unionization. read more >
March 13, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A bill that would tie tuition at public colleges in Washington State to a portion of the average state wage passed the State Senate on Wednesday, The Spokesman-Review reports. read more >
March 12, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The American Association of University Professors has come out against Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut ties between the State of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin system. read more >
March 11, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The tentative contract could be a model for graduate students at other private colleges. But first they face the challenge of getting their unions recognized. read more >
March 11, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The tentative contract could be a model for graduate students at other private colleges. But first they face the challenge of getting their unions recognized. read more >
March 09, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Contingent faculty members are demanding—and getting—better working conditions read more >
March 06, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
One former adjunct describes a system that's untenable. read more >
March 05, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
To avoid a similar fate, small colleges need to be hard-nosed about what works and what doesn’t, experts say. read more >
March 04, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Applying for the first time its new standards for weighing whether college faculty members can unionize, the National Labor Relations Board has given the green light to a union election by contingent faculty members at Seattle University. read more >