Faculty Issues

The Temple University graduate student workers’ strike, which lasted over a month and got ugly when the university pulled tuition and health insurance benefits, has come to an end.

The university says, “Staff members who should have enforced university policies failed to do so.”

The faculty director of a California community college’s Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education says she questioned her college’s “orthodoxy” on such issues. She says her work was impeded and her contract isn’t being renewed.

Students need flexibility, yes, but HyFlex is not the answer, Alanna Gillis writes.

As the four horsemen continue their approach, English departments’ offer is as important (if not more so) as ever, Andrew Newman writes.

Several faculty leaders from Indiana University campuses wrote a letter opposing proposed state abortion legislation and defending a colleague. An IU official called it a “policy violation,” a new report reveals.

The Republican governors of Florida, Texas and Virginia are drastically reshaping higher education in their states—which some see as a precursor to the 2024 presidential race.

Applying a growth mind-set–by–design approach encourages students to leave the classroom with a sense of agency, writes JT Torres.