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Dean Fired for Disagreeing With Administrators
Robert Buckingham was fired as dean of the public health school -- and banned from campus -- at the University...
Illinois Board Hears From Adjunct With Controversial Past
James Kilgore, who is on the verge of losing an adjunct position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, got...
Online Grows at Two-Year Colleges but Success Lags
Online course enrollment at California's community colleges has grown rapidly during the last decade, according to a new report from...
U.S. Panel Advocates for Ethics in Neuroscience Research
Ethical considerations should be deeply integrated into neuroscience research and education, a federal panel of bioethicists said in a new...
MLA Announces New Discipline Forums
The Modern Language Association announced this week a new way of organizing disciplines and information. Dozens of new "forum" categories...
Adjunct Continues Hunger Strike After Hospital Visit
Mary-Faith Cerasoli, a New-York area adjunct professor of Spanish and Italian, visited the hospital Wednesday after a five-day hunger strike...
Mills College Adjuncts Vote to Form Union
Adjunct professors at Mills College voted to form a union affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, they announced Wednesday...
Academic Minute: Cliodynamic Models of History
In today’s Academic Minute, Peter Turchin, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut, discusses complex mathematical...