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 >

Part-time lecturers at Eastern Michigan University are protesting a decision by its administration to delay their first paycheck. read more >

A doctoral program proposed at Georgetown University includes preparation for nonacademic careers. But critics say it would cheapen the degree. read more >

Reporters at The Chronicle share the trends they see as the growth of the work force transforms the professoriate. read more >

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 >

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 >

Critics say Phyllis M. Wise gives the appearance of being open to other views, then acts independently. read more >