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June 18, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Marian Court College's president says after years of declining enrollment and tuition revenue, the institution ran out of options -- sooner than professors expected. read more >
June 18, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Marian Court College's president says after years of declining enrollment and tuition revenue, the institution ran out of options -- sooner than professors expected. read more >
June 17, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
As the activist's racial identity became a national story, her colleagues tried to make sense of their shock. read more >
June 16, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Members of two associations were much more likely to report using them voluntarily than to say others had called for them. read more >
June 15, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The professors’ association also votes to censure Felician College, the University of Southern Maine, and the University of Texas’ Cancer Center. read more >
June 12, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Should faculty members be concerned if administrators check references who were not supplied by job candidates? read more >
June 11, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
From 2000 to 2012, U.S. government spending increased by 32 percent, while state spending fell by 37 percent read more >
June 10, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The strike by child care workers is the latest in a series of work actions that is putting Germany on track to have the most days lost to labor action in nearly a decade. read more >
June 05, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who began building a national profile four years ago by sharply cutting collective bargaining rights for most government workers, has turned his sights to a different element of the public sector: state universities. read more >
June 05, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Faculty members say the university system's Board of Regents missed an opportunity to ask that the legislature abandon controversial changes to tenure and shared governance. read more >
June 04, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The American Association of University Professors called the proposal "a direct attack on higher education as a public good." Here’s a guide to the dispute. read more >
June 03, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
We do believe in professionalism, and we believe that our profession has been deprofessionalized by our own sometimes well-meaning but nonetheless misguided practices. read more >
June 02, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Robert Dickeson has run afoul of faculty advocates by urging colleges not to let professors’ tenure protections hinder the scrapping of weak academic programs. read more >
June 01, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A key legislative panel has endorsed measures that would limit the faculty’s role in decision making. read more >
May 29, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Neither the legal principle of academic freedom nor the receipt of outside financial support for his work gives a public-college lecturer a right to declare his correspondence private, the University of Kansas argued this week in state court. read more >
May 28, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Administrators increasingly outnumber faculty, and they're weighing down higher education. read more >
May 27, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The plight of non-tenured professors is widely known, but what about the impact they have on the students they’re hired to instruct? read more >
May 27, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The history of Medgar Evers College parallels that of many historically black institutions where shared governance has been an elusive goal. read more >
May 26, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
This idiotic political shorthand needs to die, once and for all. read more >
May 21, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
An analysis of more than 200 court decisions involving faculty members’ First Amendment lawsuits says colleges usually win. read more >
May 20, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Kerry Ann Rockquemore offers questions for pretenure academics to consider before getting active on controversial topics on social media. read more >