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 >

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 >