On August 1, 2016 — exactly 50 years after a student named Charles Whitman climbed into the University of Texas tower and shot 46 people, killing 14 of them — a new law on concealed firearms will take effect here. Already, emotions are exploding. read more >

After years of preaching “disruptive innovation” for higher education, one of the most visible proponents of the theory is going to try a little disrupting of his own. read more >

“To them it’s all about minimizing costs and churning out graduates -- they don’t really care what those graduates can or cannot do.” read more >

Louisiana State University’s Faculty Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to censure three top administrators there over their dismissal of a tenured professor accused of creating a hostile environment in the classroom with obscene language and sexually explicit jokes. read more >

A philosophy professor who died earlier this year was making so little money at age 61 he lived in a room in a dilapidated boardinghouse. The story of Dave Heller is focusing attention on the plight of the temp college teacher. read more >

Three years after their nine-day strike that humiliated Emanuel and won national headlines for the idea of teachers fighting for students, the new attack on pay and pensions is angering teachers, paraprofessionals, and clinicians. Members have been demoralized by Emanuel’s school closings and layoffs that have left schools with bare-bones staff. read more >

For nearly three decades, the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance had counseled Congress and the Education Department on student-aid issues. read more >

State schools with the highest-paid presidents seem to be offsetting their administrative bloat with cheaper labor. read more >

The first time David Rosenfield went up for tenure, in the late 1970s, an academic career lay before him. The second time, 30 years later, he was trying to reclaim it. read more >

State College of Florida eliminates rolling contracts in favor of one-year contracts for all full-time faculty members, even long-serving ones. read more >

Faculty members in the University of Iowa’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences voted unanimously on Wednesday to censure the newly appointed president, J. Bruce Harreld, for inaccuracies on his résumé. read more >

The State College of Florida will no longer offer continuing contracts to new faculty members, a change strongly opposed by professors at the Bradenton college as well as its president. read more >

A part-timer comes to realize that she is neither incompetent nor insane read more >

A state judge has ordered Pennsylvania’s public-colleges system to stop making faculty members undergo criminal-background checks read more >

Students are paying higher tuition than ever. Why can’t more of that revenue go to the people teaching them? read more >

It is well established that unions provide benefits to workers — that they raise wages for their members (and even for nonmembers). They can help reduce inequality. read more >

A growing protest movement on the Columbia campus shows how quickly and easily tensions can flare up over their issues. read more >

Faculty member: "You should try my job." Administrator: "No, you should try mine." Yes we should. read more >

AAUP alleges violations of academic freedom, due process in new report about tenured professor who was terminated by Louisiana State U for using inappropriate language. read more >

The Wisconsin governor has taken an aggressive stance on the role of college. It’s one that has left professors troubled. read more >