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Asked to Discuss Her Whiteness

Bridgewater State asked a white faculty applicant about her white privilege. The job seeker, who lost the job, says this line of questioning was discriminatory. Was it?

‘A New Low’ in Attacks on Academic Freedom

Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick threatens to end tenure over the teaching of critical race theory, further escalating the ongoing war on the teaching of CRT and other so-called divisive concepts in many states.

A Return to Tenure

Chatham University had tenure, then it didn’t. Now it’s slated to adopt tenure again, citing faculty recruitment difficulties and morale problems.

More Support for COVID-19–Affected Professors

Two years into the pandemic, Stanford University is offering junior faculty members another pretenure year or an additional quarter of research leave, plus childcare and research grants. Will other institutions follow suit?

Tenure Changes Ahead

The Board of Regents for all 26 University System of Georgia institutions says it wants to make posttenure review better, but professors say it’s really weakening tenure by subverting due process.

Dream Grant

First they got tenure at Colby College. Then they each got $100,000, no strings attached. Could the Haynesville Project be the new donation paradigm?

Tenure Under Threat in Georgia

Professors within the University System of Georgia say the Board of Regents' policy proposals seek to centralize power and end, not update, tenure.

Intent to Hire

Ohio State University’s education program is taking a “grow-your-own” approach to faculty diversity, training postdocs to become tenure-track professors -- in the college.