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. read more >

"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. read more >

AAUP Calls for Sensible Gun Control Measures read more >

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." read more >

Study finds instructors are much more likely to respond to comments from white male students than from others. read more >

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. read more >

“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. read more >

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. read more >

Right after U of Tennessee faculty members agreed on plan to toughen oversight of tenured professors, system proposed rules many say endanger academic freedom. read more >

Leaders of historically black colleges say their strategy of working closely with the White House and congressional Republicans is working. read more >

Moving thousands of scholarly treasures out of the fine arts library at UT Austin has faculty members riled. Should a maker space and other meeting areas replace the stacks? read more >

Authors break down the basics of university governance but can't resist looking at the big picture. read more >

Study finds evidence of institutional bias in publishing, in that journals favor the work of authors who either work or studied at the universities that house the publications. read more >

Lou Anna K. Simon, who resigned last month as president of Michigan State U. amid the Larry Nassar molestation scandal, was quietly awarded an elite professorship in December. Many faculty members are unhappy about it. read more >

Did the university’s handling of one professor’s sexual-harassment complaint keep other women from coming forward for decades? read more >

The censure vote is the latest development in a bruising battle that has divided the university and led Rochester’s president, Joel Seligman, to step down. read more >

“We can’t stop an active shooter, but we can minimize the carnage,” said John Scheu, the superintendent of Sidney City Schools. read more >

The AAUP joined yesterday with other groups, including members of the California Community College System, in filing an amicus brief read more >

For the third time this month, scholars are questioning the integrity of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers read more >

Students and teachers responded as trained when the fire alarm sounded read more >