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July 23, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
California court rejects a public university's findings of sexual assault by a male student. Some say case points to tensions over due process at many institutions. read more >
July 23, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
California court rejects a public university's findings of sexual assault by a male student. Some say case points to tensions over due process at many institutions. read more >
July 22, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
LSU professor Teresa Buchanan says she was dismissed in a 'witchhunt' over her occasional use of profanity in the classroom. read more >
July 21, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
With all the pressures facing higher education these days, it’s not getting any easier. read more >
July 20, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Wisconsin’s decision to eliminate tenure protections is just latest tremor in the collapse of academic ideals read more >
June 30, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a challenge to the way public-sector unions finance their operations. Union officials said a ruling against them would deal a blow to organized labor. read more >
June 29, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Northwest Nazarene stands behind elimination of job of tenured theologian, but will let him teach part-time for a few years. His supporters believe he is being punished for views on evolution and other issues. read more >
June 26, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The university has drawn new scrutiny for dismissing a tenured instructor mainly for using obscene language and jokes around students. read more >
June 25, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
TIAA-CREF survey reveals adjunct faculty members' concerns about having enough savings to retire. Experts say the situation for most adjuncts is even more dire. read more >
June 24, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Tenure, however, is not about protecting people but rather about protecting open conversation and debate. It is about academic freedom — the ability to research and teach on all topics, without fear of reprisal. read more >
June 24, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Chad Williams, chair of the department of African and Afro-American studies at Brandeis U., created #CharlestonSyllabus, a Twitter hashtag that became a resource for scholars. read more >
June 23, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
As Republican Gov. Scott Walker prepares to campaign for president as the man who tamed Wisconsin’s unions, he’s targeting tenure protections for professors at public colleges and universities. read more >
June 22, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Non-tenure track professors at Arizona State, after months of protesting a plan they called unfair to them and their students, receive more money and the option to avoid a 5-5 course load. read more >
June 19, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
As fight against college debt has its moment, what do college association leaders think about it? 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 >