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For Safety’s Sake, Get Rid of Campus Cops
October 09, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
That is a problem, because campus police departments are under the immediate control or influence of college administrators. read more >
October 09, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
That is a problem, because campus police departments are under the immediate control or influence of college administrators. read more >
October 07, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
October 06, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
The public university’s trustees have refused to recognize the Faculty Senate, which administrators have hit with an open-records request. read more >
October 03, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Internet searches sometimes yield answers to questions that hiring committees are legally forbidden to ask. read more >
October 02, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
September 30, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
How did this happen? read more >
September 29, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
September 26, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
September 25, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
September 24, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
September 23, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Humanities Ph.D.s are daring to enjoy their “regular” jobs, and the definition of academic success is changing. Sort of. read more >
September 22, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Adjunct faculty members at the College of Saint Rose, in New York, have voted to unionize read more >
September 19, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Faculty members on the University of Hawaii’s Manoa campus voted on Wednesday to censure the system president read more >
September 17, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Part-time lecturers at Eastern Michigan University are protesting a decision by its administration to delay their first paycheck. read more >
September 16, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
A doctoral program proposed at Georgetown University includes preparation for nonacademic careers. But critics say it would cheapen the degree. read more >
September 15, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Reporters at The Chronicle share the trends they see as the growth of the work force transforms the professoriate. read more >
September 15, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
The University of Pittsburgh has backed down from a plan to require faculty members to sign away their intellectual-property rights, indefinitely postponing the deadline it had set for them to do so read more >
September 12, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
The Illinois board’s vote to reject the outspoken scholar marks not the end of the story but the beginning of the next chapter. read more >
September 11, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Critics say Phyllis M. Wise gives the appearance of being open to other views, then acts independently. read more >
September 10, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
The jilted scholar says in an interview he wants the job that was offered him. read more >