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Benefits Options for Adjuncts
AFT and Freelancers Union announce plan to give those off the tenure track the ability to buy insurance through groups, rather than individually.
Opinion
The Power of Grad Students
Even in challenging times for higher education, unions representing teaching assistants are achieving important victories that help many others in academe, writes Asad Haider.
Sending a Message
AAUP censures Northeastern Illinois for alleged violation of former professor's academic freedom in tenure denial. Draft of new policy questions ties to Confucius Institutes.
Promotion by Arbitration
How one little clause in an associate professor's contract help him get promoted to "full."
Right to Gender-Neutral Spaces
Graduate student workers in the U. California System say they've agreed on contract language establishing gender-neutral bathrooms and lactation stations as rights.
Union Target: For-Profits
Could a contract for some Kaplan faculty in New York be a precedent?
Jersey Impasse
Faculty at Bergen Community College vote no confidence in president, citing loss of key meetings, changes in planned tenure rules and a disputed interpretation of a "Game of Thrones" quote.
Opinion
Not New, Not Surprising
Higher ed leaders need to stop the "sky is falling" rhetoric about a football players' union, writes Daniel J. Julius. The athletes follow a long line of academic employees who turn to collective bargaining when real economic and non-economic needs are ignored.