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 >

Professors need support in responding to students in the grip of psychological crises read more >

Surviving a clash between the most powerful force in the universe and the most perilous perk in academe read more >

The National Labor Relations Board in Washington on Thursday made it substantially easier for unions to bargain for higher wages and benefits, opening the door for organized workers at fast-food chains. read more >

An uproar over health-care cuts has turned into a widespread protest against the university’s treatment of graduate students. read more >

Alice Dreger, an author and professor of medical humanities, says a dean tried to censor portions of an essay in a journal she guest-edited. read more >

Forty-one campus leaders at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have signed an open letter calling on the institution to hire Steven G. Salaita, whose appointment to a professorship was nixed last year over the scholar’s anti-Israel tweets. read more >

WHO do you think received more cash from Yale’s endowment last year: Yale students, or the private equity fund managers hired to invest the university’s money? read more >

Board says it won't assert jurisdiction over whether Northwestern University athletes are employees, effectively killing their union drive. The vague decision divides experts on the prospects for athlete unions generally. read more >

Ashland University eliminates faculty jobs -- including those of some with tenure -- to free up funds for new programs, deferred maintenance and faculty raises. read more >

Universities are the latest target of conservative politicians with an agenda to push read more >

Lots of departments want to know what they’re doing right for non-tenure-track faculty members, what they can do better and how that climate affects student learning. But how to measure it? read more >

Everyone knows student debt is growing. College costs are growing. Student debt delinquencies are rising. And now Hillary Clinton has her own plan for how to stem that tide of financial problems for college graduates. read more >