Filter & Sort
New College Board Denies Tenure for 5 Professors
In the latest maneuver to remake higher ed in the vision of Ron DeSantis, New College of Florida trustees voted to deny tenure to five applicants due to “extraordinary circumstances.”
British Scholars Split on Funds From Russia
Law firms offer money to experts who can say a person isn’t close enough to Putin to justify sanctions.
Research Finds No Gender Bias in Academic Science
Reviewing decades of studies, researchers with “adversarial” perspectives conclude that tenure-track women and men in STEM receive comparable grant funding, journal acceptances and recommendation letters—and that women have an edge over men in hiring.
‘We’re Not Slowing Down,’ Student Workers Say
Undergraduate workers are winning collective bargaining rights, making student unions increasingly common. They’re driven by the pandemic, pro-union sentiment and each other.
Grading Amid a Grad Workers’ Strike
University of Michigan graduate student instructors and staff assistants have been striking for almost a month. Now, the institution is trying to grade without them.
Temple Union Issues No-Confidence Vote in Administration
Why Florida’s Public College Presidents Should Resign
The best strategy for countering Governor DeSantis’s attacks on higher ed could be for Florida’s public university presidents to threaten to resign en masse, Robert Birnbaum writes.
Tenured and Making $0?
Emails suggest a Purdue University math faculty member has been punished for his COVID-19–era teaching. The university says it “regrets that some have chosen to release incomplete confidential personnel files.”