Faculty Issues

First there was denial, then anger, bargaining, depression and, finally, Kristi Girdharry writes, acceptance.

Employees at the Community College of Philadelphia overwhelmingly voted to allow a strike if contract negotiations with administrators continue to go sour.

The $19 billion academic publishing industry is adopting AI-powered tools to improve the quality of peer-reviewed research and speed up production. The latter goal yields “obvious financial benefit” for publishers, one expert said.

The federal government is trying to put the entire private university into a state of receivership, Austin Sarat writes.

A Pennsylvania college is launching a business degree that can be completed in three years, with the hopes of giving students the opportunity to earn their master of business administration in the fourth year.

UNC professors who supported the initiative when others derided it are resigning and denouncing its leader. It’s an ironic turn for a civil discourse school.

Discouraging and devaluing faculty participation in service undermine the public impact of universities, Cullen C. Merritt writes.