AFT and Freelancers Union announce plan to give those off the tenure track the ability to buy insurance through groups, rather than individually. read more >

The American Federation of Teachers announced on Friday that it was teaming up with a nonprofit organization for independent workers to provide colleges’ contingent faculty members with access to health insurance and other benefits. read more >

Using free online materials such as massive open online courses in traditional classes can help colleges teach more efficiently without harming students. read more >

Two adjuncts discuss how they balance their creative interests with course coverage obligations. read more >

The University of Zurich says it has cleared up the bizarre case of the MOOC that went missing. read more >

A social experiment gone wrong? A protest against Facebook? Performance art? Twitter sleuths attempt to figure out why a Coursera MOOC derailed after one week. read more >

President of UT Austin told to quit or be fired -- and he resists. Faculty leaders say regents -- allies of Governor Rick Perry -- are attempting "coup" against respected academic leader. read more >

How do we set up a system that lets us link the three sectors to give doctoral candidates more training about teaching at other kinds of institutions? read more >

A watchdog group for free speech on campuses is stepping up its efforts to eradicate student-conduct codes and other campus policies that it says unconstitutionally restrict students’ and faculty members’ rights to freedom of expression. read more >

What are the risks for academic freedom? read more >

The giant grant maker, known for its opacity, is studying its strategy for saving the humanities read more >

Their new deal makes gains on pay and on a raft of social justice issues--including class size, child care, parental leave, breastfeeding stations, opportunities for undocumented students, and all-gender bathrooms. Here's how they did it. read more >

Can better evaluation make a difference? read more >

The Obama administration now can claim partial credit for the demise of one of the largest for-profit college chains. And both critics and supporters of the sector expect the federal scrutiny to continue. read more >

Google announced on Tuesday that it would give Carnegie Mellon $300,000 in each of the next two years through the Google Focused Research Award program. Google can fund the research for a third year at the same price if it chooses. read more >

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that a community college employee who testified about an Alabama legislator's no-show job had First Amendment protection when he did so. The ruling allows the employee -- whose job was subsequently eliminated -- to pursue a claim that he lost his position in retaliation for his testimony. read more >

In the rush to online education, faculty members have been signing contracts that abrogate the ownership of their classes, erode their collective interests, and threaten the quality of higher education. No standard (let alone best) practice has yet emerged, and faculty members are largely in the dark about what is at stake. read more >

Conversations about what we need to know about higher education, both to rate college and university performance and to provide information to prospective students and their parents, leave one word largely unspoken: faculty. read more >

Amid the public-relations back and forth over Starbucks’s new partnership with Arizona State University’s online degree program, an online comment caught our eye read more >

Massive Open Online Courses Make College Degrees More Affordable. Does That Make Them a Threat to Campus Life? read more >