The tentative contract could be a model for graduate students at other private colleges. But first they face the challenge of getting their unions recognized. read more >

The tentative contract could be a model for graduate students at other private colleges. But first they face the challenge of getting their unions recognized. read more >

Contingent faculty members are demanding—and getting—better working conditions read more >

One former adjunct describes a system that's untenable. read more >

To avoid a similar fate, small colleges need to be hard-nosed about what works and what doesn’t, experts say. read more >

Applying for the first time its new standards for weighing whether college faculty members can unionize, the National Labor Relations Board has given the green light to a union election by contingent faculty members at Seattle University. read more >

The university system said a reference to the potential "enacting of a de-tenure process" was "inadvertent and incorrect." But faculty members remain leery. read more >

Rate My Professors is a student evaluation site that frustrates many professors, who say that the nonscientific standards leave faculty members open to unfair ratings. read more >

Sixteen months after rejecting the idea by a narrow margin, adjunct instructors at Bentley University have overwhelmingly voted to form a union affiliated with the Service Employees International Union. read more >

It's hard to estimate how many contingent professors left their classrooms. But some who couldn't walk out still found ways to show their support. read more >

A prominent professor uses a disciplinary meeting to discuss his struggles with depression -- and encourages others in academe to talk about mental health issues. read more >

The American Association of University Professors is urging the University of North Carolina system’s governing board to reject a working group’s recommendation to close an independent center on poverty issues. read more >

A brash tech entrepreneur thinks he can reinvent higher education by stripping it down to its essence, eliminating lectures and tenure along with football games, ivy-covered buildings, and research libraries. What if he's right? read more >

Like many Americans, I’ve been wary of labor unions...I was wrong. read more >

If you can’t support adjuncts out of fairness, then support us out of pure self-interest read more >

These contingent faculty members now account for about 75 percent of the professoriate, surpassing one million in number. read more >

U. of Denver moves to new titles, a career path and multiyear contracts for those off the tenure track. Could this be a model for other institutions? read more >

As National Adjunct Walkout Day approaches, activists are wondering how to galvanize a collection of workers who drift from campus to campus. read more >

Full-time professors at Tufts University voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to unionize. read more >

A new Labor Board ruling could finally unstick the unionization of professors in the private sector—a project that’s been stalled for 35 years. read more >