Faculty

After contract talks between faculty union and Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education crumble over wages and benefits, many students woke up Wednesday morning to no classes.

New book rejects the model of just creating more and more adjunct positions, but also suggests that the path forward probably can't include tenure track for all.

University of Kentucky senate opposes terms of proposed $10 million deal with Koch and Papa John's CEO to establish center for the study of free enterprise -- funds for which could be revoked at any time.

New study adds to evidence that student reviews of professors have limited validity.

Why would a faculty member return to the institution that laid her off after 12 years of stellar service, amid broad retrenchment and program cuts? For the U of Southern Maine's new provost, it came down to institutional loyalty and a new president.

Academics fact-check the persistent idea, promoted at GOP convention, that liberal professors politically indoctrinate their students.

Vassar professors want to reduce their teaching loads, but some question a new plan to do so at the expense of course offerings.

New study suggests that science dissertations increasingly are research article based, not book-length studies, reflecting the professionalization of the Ph.D.

New analysis suggests that one region is responsible for much of the national imbalance in the ideological leanings of faculty members.

At many colleges, new assistant professors earn close to or even more than long timers. U of Washington is trying to do something about it -- and finding out how hard it is. Among other ideas: countering expensive retention raises with new salary steps subject to approval by one's peers.