Compensation

HR leaders in academe consider how to keep their best employees -- faculty and administrators alike -- in era of tight budgets.

Debate over pension perks for high-paid UC execs is political pickle for Mark Yudof, who risks alienating key players or stoking populist rage. For now, he's opposing execs.

Professors at public universities worry that a combination of economic anxiety, anti-union sentiment and frustration over rising college costs will make them and their institutions targets for populist anger.

Furor over outspoken adjunct's testimony in Washington highlights rift between tenured and contingent faculty.

Faculty unions and the Los Rios and San Diego Community College Districts find labor harmony by basing contracts on shared revenue agreements.

Average increase for professors in 2010-11 will fall short of inflation; gaps grow between public and private institutions.

Professors at the University of Illinois at Chicago file petition for collective bargaining -- a rare move by the faculty at a research university.

In tough budget times, departures of top faculty set off debates over how to retain and lure away the best -- especially at flagships that appear targets for raids.