Faculty Issues

The University of Rochester gave multiple reasons for backing out and leaving students to try their luck with the NLRB, which has been drastically transformed since the president took office. Other student workers are wary, too.

Beth Mitchneck and Stephanie A. Goodwin suggest some simple ways academic administrators can support faculty whose research and teaching are under threat.

Despite court orders blocking Trump’s federal funding freeze, bans on DEI and other executive mandates, academic researchers are still in the dark on what all of it could mean for their careers and the pace of scientific discovery.

In his final “Intellectual Affairs” column, Scott McLemee looks back at 20 years of writing about the world of scholarly books and ideas.

New funding conditions imposed to comply with Trump’s executive orders undercut the national humanities agency’s very mission, Jonathan P. Eburne writes.

Fidan Cheikosman asks what it means to find home as an international scholar.