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When Your Online Course Is Put Up for Adoption
May 19, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
As colleges expand on the web, a professor who builds a course sometimes must to trust another to teach it. read more >
May 19, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
As colleges expand on the web, a professor who builds a course sometimes must to trust another to teach it. read more >
May 19, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Bernard Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont and long-shot candidate for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination, introduced a bill on Tuesday that would make attending all four-year public colleges free. read more >
May 18, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Administrations, not department chairs, are responsible for making decisions about the pay of adjunct instructors. And for most, it’s not a priority. read more >
May 15, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
After decades of deteriorating conditions, adjunct organizing is the best route to meaningful improvement in the quality of higher education. read more >
May 15, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
New book proposes teaching-intensive tenure track to address what it calls the "real" crisis in the humanities. read more >
May 14, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
What happens when scholars discuss potentially controversial ideas outside the "bubbles" of their disciplines and academe? read more >
May 13, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The professors’ association says both the public university and the Roman Catholic college trampled faculty rights in making unnecessary job cuts. read more >
May 12, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
How unequal stipends foster an unequal education read more >
May 11, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The director of Yeshiva College’s writing program refused to preside over cutbacks in full-time teaching positions. read more >
May 08, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
When a Polk State professor found himself accused of being anti-Christian, the college's leaders answered back -- and said he was entitled to academic freedom. read more >
May 06, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Jonathan Gottschall tried to save literary studies. Instead he ruined his career. read more >
May 04, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Trustees and Administration of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Failed to Demonstrate Cause When Rejecting Steven Salaita’s Appointment read more >
April 28, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A formal finding that the university violated principles of academic freedom sets the stage for a censure vote at the association’s conference in June. read more >
April 28, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A bill introduced late last month in the North Carolina General Assembly has set faculties across the state abuzz with a bold suggestion: Require all professors in the University of North Carolina system to teach at least eight courses each academic year. read more >
April 22, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Just one in four union contracts covering adjunct instructors includes any sort of provision ensuring them some payment when a course assignment is canceled read more >
April 21, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Just one in four contracts ensures the instructors even a small payment when a course assignment is canceled, an analysis found. read more >
April 21, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Thanks in large part to the activism of our members and allies, the House Finance Committee passed Sub. HB 64 this evening without the language that would have stripped faculty of their collective bargaining rights. read more >
April 20, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A measure inserted into the new state budget bill that critics call "anti-union" has drawn strong opposition from college faculty at Ohio's public universities. read more >
April 17, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Ohio budget bill proposes a ban on full-time-faculty unions at public institutions where professors do nearly anything beyond teaching and research. read more >
April 15, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
To observe the major forces at play in the education technology sector, one needed only to stand near the marble fountain in the Phoenician Resort lobby this week. read more >