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Adjunct Win at Religious College
NLRB official, rejecting stance of Pacific Lutheran U., says non-tenure-track faculty members have right to vote on collective bargaining.
Nominee for Civil Rights
Beginning to fill a long list of Education Department vacancies, Catherine Lhamon, a California lawyer, is picked as assistant secretary for civil rights.
You Can't Say That
Appeals court finds Slippery Rock U. was within its rights to dismiss a tenured professor for sex discussions with students on a spring break trip he led.
Unprofessional Tenure Denial?
American U. says it has track for those with non-academic careers who want to join the faculty. A suit charges that the university only values traditional academic credentials.
The Deceptive Data on Asians
Report urges colleges and other education groups to disaggregate the numbers about Asian-American students, and says current practices to aggregate data hide inequities.
The Mom Penalty
A decadelong research initiative out of the University of California at Berkeley culminates in a detailed look at the effects of children on men's and women's academic careers.
Opinion
Postdoc Pay: A Women's Issue
If universities want to retain more female academic scientists, it's time to increase postdoc salaries, writes Jennifer Bussell.
Fat-Shaming in Academe
Professor sets off furor with comment on Twitter about obese Ph.D. applicants.