Faculty Issues

Compensation survey from AAUP says faculty salaries are up slightly year over year, but institutional budgets continue to be balanced “on the backs” of adjuncts and out-of-state students.

Teaching is a form of performance art, contends Bruce Fleming, and those watching us judge us as physical beings.

Protest outside event at Claremont McKenna prevents Heather Mac Donald event from having an in-person audience. Question period of appearance at UCLA is disrupted as well.

The current obsession with predictive analytics avoids tough conversations about poor instruction and outdated pedagogy, writes Dror Ben-Naim.

Researchers say removal of an IRS tool for financial aid applicants may have slowed FAFSA submissions, while college aid groups warn that affected students could already be losing out on aid.

A new group of Harvard undergraduates seeks to highlight First Amendment rights by inviting the most controversial speakers possible to address the campus.

Drexel Faculty Senate is looking into professor's comment on Twitter about wanting to vomit when he saw a passenger in first class on a flight give his seat to a soldier.

Rider University, once seen as a savior for Westminster Choir College, looks to sell the institution after groups raised their voices against relocation.