Faculty

Higher ed associations tell NLRB that recent decades have seen few changes in professors’ power at private colleges. Unions beg to differ.

Women sociologists with children are more likely than those without to have tenured jobs, study finds.

AAUP report says that departments and faculty senates need to be sure those off the tenure track have their views counted.

U.Va. board’s vote today puts it at the center of a nationwide debate about governance in public higher education institutions.

NLRB votes to reconsider ban on collective bargaining rights for teaching assistants and research assistants at private universities.

Survey seeks to publicize the low pay and minimal benefits of part-time instructors.

An open letter to his colleagues, decrying dysfunction at his university, is now prompting reflection (and praise) from academics elsewhere.

Study finds faculty members who use the benefit are more likely than others to earn tenure -- but may end up earning less than comparable colleagues who don't. The biggest salary impact is on men.

Preliminary results of national survey find their job satisfaction in many areas lags those at assistant and full ranks.

U. of Texas wanted to honor a late scholar whose career had focused on Middle Eastern studies. But when Arab contributors found out that two Israelis would be published in the same work, a tribute fell apart.