New book argues that benefits of fostering better relationships between academics and policy makers in international affairs are underestimated. read more >

How to measure impact and value. read more >

The professoriate needs to refocus on students or face extinction. read more >

Terrorist attacks in Paris have resurrected a free speech battle between a scholar and Yale U. Press, which removed cartoons about Muhammad from her book read more >

Legal fight at University of Kansas over emails from a professor who has received funding from the Koch brothers sets off a debate about undue influence and academic freedom. read more >

A statement from the union called the arbitrator's ruling "historic," and said many other adjuncts could benefit over time. read more >

The search for common ground. read more >

An outstanding new book provides a road map for truly effective teaching with technology read more >

If you don’t manage your online presence, you are allowing search engines to create it for you read more >

For years, Harvard’s experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar. read more >

The National Labor Relations Board issued a ruling last week that could clear the way for much more unionization of faculty members at private colleges and universities. read more >

The National Labor Relations Board recently issued a decision significantly expanding the right of employees to use their employers' e-mail systems for union organizing read more >

Marquette University has suspended with pay and barred from campus the tenured professor who criticized a graduate student instructor in a personal blog read more >

Arizona State tells non-tenure-track English instructors to shift from 4-4 to 5-5 course load, without increase in compensation and in violation of professional codes on how many writing students one can effectively teach. read more >

In a significant win for labor unions, federal regulators ruled Thursday that employers can't prevent their workers from using company email to organize and discuss their working conditions outside of work. read more >

Union advocates applauded two decisions by the National Labor Relations Board last week, one of which protects the right of employees using work email for union communications. read more >

An effort to increase the representation of women on the faculty and among doctoral students at the University of Michigan’s business school is showing results read more >

Two universities have dedicated millions of dollars to foster educational change. But the impact of those efforts goes beyond the financial. read more >

For a rising generation of administrators in higher education, the heart of education is innovative technology -- and faculty get in the way. read more >

Shirley Ann Jackson of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute earned $7,143,312 in 2012, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s ranking of salaries at private colleges read more >