Professors

Community college administrators share ideas about how to better train and motivate part-time professors.

Teaching assistants at Columbia and Yale vote to strike; students walk out of classes at Emerson to back faculty union.

Leaders of the AFT's college unions plan opposition to David Horowitz, cooperation with the NEA, and new organizing efforts.

A poll of non-union faculty members suggests potential to expand collective bargaining at colleges and challenges facing organizing drives.

The average salary for a full-time faculty member at a community college is just over $52,134 this academic year, up from $50,998 a year ago.

Facing growing international criticism, a union will hold another vote

The "preoccupation with money" is eroding the values of higher education, argues a new book: Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money, published in April by the University of Virginia Press. The authors -- James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield -- question the endowment obsession of presidents, the rating obsession of admissions officers, and the career obsession of students.

Faculty members sue Knoxville College, charging that they haven’t been compensated for nearly a year.

The NLRB agreed to hear an appeal that could make it next to impossible for professors to bargain collectively at colleges with religious ties.

A federal court ruling about Nebraska's ban on gay marriage may end up helping professors in the state win insurance for domestic partners.