Work at a regional public university? You'll earn more at a unionized, large urban institution, according to new analysis of faculty salaries. read more >

"Unionized instructors at larger suburban institutions earn an average of about $40,000, or 50 percent, more than their nonunionized peers at midsize rural institutions, the study found." read more >

"Instructors on the tenure track earned the biggest median salary bump from last year, at 2.2 percent." read more >

Backlash is mounting against Emory students who protested pro-Trump chalk messages. University's president is under fire for not dismissing them outright. read more >

AAUP attempts to reframe debate and put focus on due process and the importance of faculty freedom of speech. read more >

Chinese students hire imposter “gunmen” to take the SAT, the GRE and other tests. read more >

“The joke among my friends is that you can be gay at Messiah, just so long as you don’t act gay, or say gay things, or do anything to show you’re gay.” read more >

People support expanding pre-school for kids, but when it comes to free, public higher education, opinions split along more familiar political lines. read more >

Campus-carry laws, like the one going into effect in Texas, pose a profound threat to free speech. read more >

When efforts to resolve a federal investigation into how the University of Virginia handled reports of sexual violence began in earnest last spring, campus officials were corresponding with a lawyer in a U.S. Department of Education field office. By the time the case was resolved in September, tense legal wrangling had reached the highest levels of the university, the state, and the federal agency. read more >

Carolyn Stefanco, president of the College of Saint Rose, cut 23 faculty positions and 12 academic programs. She won a prize for her efforts. read more >

Two public colleges in Illinois announced additional belt-tightening measures this week as they enter their ninth month without state funding due to a budget impasse in the legislature. read more >

Yes, we dodged a bullet—for now. But any union that takes the Supreme Court shakeup as a cue to go back to business as usual will be making a big mistake. read more >

You don’t need to be a person of color to mentor a colleague of color, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore, but you do need to rethink what it means to be a mentor. read more >

Sometimes I think the hardest part of teaching is balancing between what students want, and what they need. read more >

Justice's death may not change outcome on affirmative action, which he opposed. His record includes key votes and dissents on issues of black colleges, hate speech, single-sex public higher education and church-state line. read more >

Today’s college freshmen are more likely to participate in a student-led protest than each of the nearly five decades of classes that preceded them. read more >

"We were able to predict college success by watching a video just as well as we did with transcripts and test scores." read more >

The physical location of colleges has largely been ignored in the accessibility debate, but new findings suggest it is critical. read more >

The U.S. Department of Education has suspended student-aid eligibility at 26 for-profit education programs, in California, Illinois, and Nevada, after an investigation found several rules violations by the programs, the department announced on Monday. read more >