Professors

Faculty recruits at Marshall U. are getting salaries that are significantly higher than experienced professors. Guess who isn't happy.

When Florida overhauled its higher education system to shift power from the State Board of Regents to boards of trustees at individual campuses in 2003, it invalidated the employment contract between the regents and the statewide union that represented 10,000 professors, throwing academic labor relations into disarray.

Court showdown looms in Kansas over whether public universities own all scholarly work.

With classes about to start, Youngstown State has one union on strike -- and the faculty union may soon join the picket lines.

With rare faculty support, board extends contract of the college's chief executive.

As faculty members join classified employees, 70% of Youngstown State workers on strike.

NLRB rejects Carroll's argument that collective bargaining for professors would hurt institution's religious identity.

At San Francisco Art Institute, a new president and a union jointly decide to adopt the practice. 

Every Stanford University employee will get a little wealthier next week.

To a brief silence, and then thunderous applause at a staff-appreciation lunch, President John Hennessy announced Tuesday that all 11,000 full and part-time faculty and staff members will get a $250 bonus next month for their "tremendous effort," which led to “a very successful year.”

Agreement between administrators and professors was binding, judge's ruling says, even if budgets were tight.