Whitney Ray said she fell into a yearlong depression after being sexually harassed by an undergraduate at the U. of North Carolina at Wilmington
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University of Rochester professors found out their emails were reviewed and shared, raising questions of how much privacy faculty members should be assured.
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Could a one-day walkout at Loyola Chicago set the stage for other campuses?
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On the picket line
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Undocumented workers find new ally as unions act to halt deportations
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Univ. of Cincinnati: Contract Clause Admissible in Wage Bias Trial
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University of Washington: Representation Election for Post-Docs
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Another Post-Janus Option: Mandating Payment to a Non-Profit
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Alternatives to funding Collective Bargaining after Janus in Hawaii
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Four National Unions Issue Joint Letter Demanding GSE Bargaining
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Our first big event was “Red for Ed” on Wednesday, March 7, when we asked teachers throughout the state to wear red T-shirts to school.
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"I asked for records of faculty outside activities - basically faculty consulting activities, consulting for corporations that all faculty members who did consulting were required to file. And the university resisted that, Madison campus resisted, saying that this would [have] a chilling effect on research, on teaching, and it would violate academic freedom, and it was the equivalent of McCarthyism," says Pritchard.
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AAUP Calls for Sensible Gun Control Measures
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Golden West College says a professor is on leave after she was recorded off-campus telling an Asian-American family to "go back to your home country."
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Study finds instructors are much more likely to respond to comments from white male students than from others.
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Administrators cited the campus’s $4.5-million deficit and declining enrollment as reasons for the cuts, which, if carried out, could result in the layoff of tenured faculty members.
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“I want to be very clear that Domínguez’s forthcoming retirement does not change the full and fair process of review that is currently underway," Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said in a written statement.
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Legislators rewrite bill that originally required use of freely accessible educational materials, amid criticism that legislation would have infringed academic freedom and harmed, not helped, the open-access movement.
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Right after U of Tennessee faculty members agreed on plan to toughen oversight of tenured professors, system proposed rules many say endanger academic freedom.
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Leaders of historically black colleges say their strategy of working closely with the White House and congressional Republicans is working.
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