Professors

To mark Campus Equity Week, part-timers in Vermont are using an unusual ad campaign.

Gay and lesbian faculty and staff members at Georgetown University are saying a rhetorical "amen” to new guidelines that will provide health insurance for their same-sex partners, starting January 1. More and more colleges each year provide some benefits for gay professors’ partners, but the trend is notably less evident at Roman Catholic institutions, making Georgetown’s move significant.

New adjunct faculty agreement at Nassau Community College includes extra pay for long-time employees.

At most colleges, faculty with extra duties get reduced teaching loads. Duke professors asked for -- and are getting -- new options.

AAUP’s “Boston experiment” garners another success, say organizers.

For some time now, large gatherings of faculty members have included a session about adjuncts. Those frustrated at being kept off of the tenure track would hear the latest data on the shrinking pool of tenure-track jobs and attendees would trade horror stories about the use and abuse of part-timers. And then the meeting would get back to its regular agenda.

Increases are highest at private institutions and doctoral institutions -- and in selected disciplines.

Coalition opposed to Academic Bill of Rights discusses its plans.

Calif. community college district is using bonds to provide retiree benefits -- and to free up money for current faculty members.

Biases beyond sex may be important factors for why female professors earn less, new study suggests.