Faculty

At arts-oriented Columbia College Chicago, faculty leaders want to know why programs to be trimmed are in the arts, and how institution will move to selective admissions.

Colleges honored for creative approaches to encouraging professors to consider going emeritus.

Louisiana institutions faulted over faculty rights and layoffs of tenured faculty members.

Last month, Duquesne signed an agreement with the NLRB for an election to decide if adjuncts could unionize. Now, citing religious concerns, the university wants out

AAUP members discuss fears about colleagues who are less than collegial.

At AAUP meeting, a debate over whether its national committee is stretched too thin to carry out its duties, and needs help from the states.

AAUP issues report calling for tougher guidelines on the relationships between academics and businesses.

Educators at a Teagle Foundation meeting consider the trends in measuring student learning outcomes.

An adjunct group at Duquesne University has allied itself with the United Steelworkers to try to unionize, leading other adjunct groups near Pittsburgh to seek the powerful union's help.

An academic freedom committee at UC Davis that investigated allegations of intimidation against a professor wants top administrators to apologize to him.