Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who began building a national profile four years ago by sharply cutting collective bargaining rights for most government workers, has turned his sights to a different element of the public sector: state universities. read more >

Faculty members say the university system's Board of Regents missed an opportunity to ask that the legislature abandon controversial changes to tenure and shared governance. read more >

The American Association of University Professors called the proposal "a direct attack on higher education as a public good." Here’s a guide to the dispute. read more >

We do believe in professionalism, and we believe that our profession has been deprofessionalized by our own sometimes well-meaning but nonetheless misguided practices. read more >

Robert Dickeson has run afoul of faculty advocates by urging colleges not to let professors’ tenure protections hinder the scrapping of weak academic programs. read more >

A key legislative panel has endorsed measures that would limit the faculty’s role in decision making. read more >

Neither the legal principle of academic freedom nor the receipt of outside financial support for his work gives a public-college lecturer a right to declare his correspondence private, the University of Kansas argued this week in state court. read more >

Administrators increasingly outnumber faculty, and they're weighing down higher education. read more >

The plight of non-tenured professors is widely known, but what about the impact they have on the students they’re hired to instruct? read more >

The history of Medgar Evers College parallels that of many historically black institutions where shared governance has been an elusive goal. read more >

This idiotic political shorthand needs to die, once and for all. read more >

An analysis of more than 200 court decisions involving faculty members’ First Amendment lawsuits says colleges usually win. read more >

Kerry Ann Rockquemore offers questions for pretenure academics to consider before getting active on controversial topics on social media. read more >

As colleges expand on the web, a professor who builds a course sometimes must to trust another to teach it. read more >

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 >

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 >

After decades of deteriorating conditions, adjunct organizing is the best route to meaningful improvement in the quality of higher education. read more >

New book proposes teaching-intensive tenure track to address what it calls the "real" crisis in the humanities. read more >

What happens when scholars discuss potentially controversial ideas outside the "bubbles" of their disciplines and academe? read more >

The professors’ association says both the public university and the Roman Catholic college trampled faculty rights in making unnecessary job cuts. read more >