Tenure

The new cohort of scholars is not just younger and more diverse -- new research suggests a values gap colleges need to address.

New data challenge conventional wisdom (at least in part) on which groups of professors perform the most service work.

Facing $9 million deficit and lagging enrollments, Loyola to eliminate 17 tenure track jobs and 16 degree programs.

Hiring well in face of retirements and growing enrollments requires strategic planning and campus collaboration.

Professor urges women in academe to stop “underselling themselves.”

Independent review offers upbeat assessment of U. of Colorado's practices and says public misunderstands tenure's value.

2 leading scholars of the professoriate release book outlining just how dramatically academic work is changing.

If you’re not sexy, you might want to be easy.

At least if you’re a professor concerned about your rating on RateMyProfessors.com. James Felton, a professor of finance and law at Central Michigan University, and colleagues looked at ratings for nearly 7,000 faculty members from 370 institutions in the United States and Canada, and his verdict is: the hotter and easier professors are, the more likely they’ll get rated as a good teacher.

Reviews by AAUP question treatment of professors at Greenville College and New Mexico Highlands University.

Texas A&M University will give extra credit in tenure process to professors whose work has commercial applications.