Faculty & Governance
2019
- With Faculty Anger Surrounding Several Presidential Searches, Some Point to Search Firms as the Cause (IHE 8/23/19)
- Should Presidential Searches Be Open or Closed? (IHE 8/22/19)
- Little Progress in Diversifying Faculty Ranks, Study Finds, Particularly at Research Universities (IHE 7/2/19)
- U-Md. at College Park is Warned That It Could Lose Accreditation (Wa Po 6/30/19)
- Retiree Healthcare Benefits Are a Target for Cost Cutting Once Again at UCOP (UCDFA 6/19)
- More on the Runaway Retiree Health Care Train (UCLAFA 6/14/19)
- UCLA Emeriti Assn. Statement to Regents on Proposed Privatization of Retiree Health (UCLAFA 6/11/19)
- Support for UC Workers (Signature Collection 6/19)
- West Virginia Senate Passes Sweeping Education Bill to Ban Teacher Strikes (Portside 6/3/19)
- Suit Targets Changes to UA Tenure Policy (Arkansas Online 6/1/19)
- USC Gave Nearly $1 Million to Medical School Dean Linked to Drugs (LAT 5/18/19)
- 2021 Health Care Changes (UCLAFA 5/11/19)
- AFSCME Local 3299 Claims UC Illegally Refused to Bargain Over Outsourcing (Daily Bruin 5/6/19)
- A Crisis of Shared Governance at the University of Tulsa (Academe Blog 5/3/19)
- 3 Takeaways From a New Survey on Administrative Pay (CHE 4/24/19)
- Stevens Point Abandons Controversial Plan to Cut Liberal Arts Majors Including History and Foreign Languages (IHE 4/11/19)
- Hampshire President Quits; Board Votes to Try to Stay Independent (IHE 4/8/19)
- This Is How You Kill a Profession (CHE 3/27/19)
- Federal Appellate Court Decision Could Make It Harder to Adjuncts to Form Unions (IHE 3/14/19)
- A Modest(y) Proposal (AAUP 3/10/19)
- The Unmaking of a College: Notes From Inside the Hampshire Runaway Train (The Nation 3/8/19)
- Report Examines Changes to Governance System at Maricopa Community Colleges (Academe Blog 3/7/19)
- A Lesson From UC’s Split With Elsevier: Keep the Faculty in the Loop (CHE 3/1/19)
- CSU Northridge Faculty Senate Votes No-Confidence in CSU Chancellor White (Academe Blog 2/19/19)
- Linfield College Is Moving Forward With a Plan to Cut Its Faculty -- Apparently With or Without Professors' Input (IHE 2/11/19)
- UNC Chapel Hill Interim Chancellor Appointment Dredges Up Questions About Academic Freedom and Sports Ties (IHE 2/8/19)
- WTF Is Going on at Wright State? (IHE 2/7/19)
- University of California Staff Researchers Opt to Form a Union, Joining Postdocs (Science Mag 2/6/19)
- Wright State Cancels Courses, Looks for Replacement Instructors as Faculty Strike Continues (IHE 2/6/19)
- Wright State Professors Strike Over Board-Imposed Contract They Say Would Gut Faculty Rights and Compensation (IHE 1/23/19)
- Chapel Hill Chancellor's Departure Comes as Tensions at UNC Continue Boiling Over (IHE 1/15/19)
- The Invisible Faculty (CHE 1/2/19)
2018
- The Livermore Case on Retiree Health Entitlements (UCLAFA 12/27/18)
- UC Employees Protest as Payroll Error Causes Missed Checks (Sac Bee 12/3/18)
- DePauw Faculty Split on No-Confidence Vote in President (IHE 11/21/18)
- Shared Governance and the Huron Report (CUCFA 11/18/18)
- Julius Scott and Me: The Costs of Contingency (IHE 11/4/18)
- One Day After Reinstatement, Maryland's Head Football Coach Fired (IHE 11/1/18)
- About Three-quarters of All Faculty Positions Are Off the Tenure Track, According to a New AAUP Analysis (IHE 10/12/18)
- UI Researcher Looks at Changes in Labor Force at University (Press-Citizen 10/2/18)
- Crisis at Jagdeep Bachher’s University of California Investment Office (Institutional Investor 9/6/18)
- UNC System Power Dynamics on Display This Summer (IHE 8/3/18)
- Non-Tenure-Track Fordham Instructors Win Big Raises (IHE 7/19/18)
- Amid Worsening Financial Picture, UW President Ana Mari Cauce Returns $95k in Deferred Compensation (Seattle Times 7/17/18)
- Higher Ed’s Real Productivity Problem (CHE 7/8/18)
- As Word of Layoffs Spreads, Western Illinois Faculty Members Brace for the Worst (CHE 6/29/18)
- Oregon State U Faculty Is Unionized (IHE 6/29/18)
- The Numbers That Explain Why Teachers Are in Revolt (NYT 6/4/18)
- How to Fix the Adjunct Crisis (CHE 5/30/18)
- U Wyoming Board Agrees to Less Severe Shared Governance Changes (IHE 5/30/18)
- As Max Nikias Pushed USC to Prominence, Checks and Balances Were Missing (LAT 5/28/18)
- The Republican War on Academic Freedom in North Carolina (Academe Blog 5/27/18)
- How to Fix USC's Culture of Impunity (LAT 5/26/18)
- USC President C.L. Max Nikias to Step Down (LAT 5/25/18)
- USC President Max Nikias Should Resign (LAT 5/23/18)
- Frustrated Professors Shut Down a Chancellor Search, Leaving UMass’s President ‘Mortified’ (CHE 5/21/18)
- Proposed Changes to Shared Governance at the University of Wyoming Recall Those Passed in Wisconsin in Recent Years (IHE 5/15/18)
- UCLA Lecturer Cuts Are Latest in UC’s Mistreatment of Employees (Daily Bruin 5/13/18)
- UI Faculty Camp Out at Bruce Harreld's Office, Demand Meeting (Press-Citizen 5/9/18)
- What Charles Koch and Other Donors to George Mason University Got for Their Money (NYT 5/5/18)
- NTTF Reform and Tenure (Academe Blog 5/4/18)
- Catholic U. Is ‘Playing With Fire’ by Trying to Lay Off Tenured Professors, Committee Declares (CHE 5/3/18)
- 4 Months Into His Tenure, a Flagship’s President Proposes 50 Faculty Layoffs (CHE 5/3/18)
- Revelations Over Koch Gifts Prompt Inquiry at George Mason University (NYT 5/1/18)
- Documents Show Ties Between University, Conservative Donors (APNews 5/1/18)
- Volunteers of the Ivory Tower (New Republic 5/1/18)
- Unilateral Governance Changes at Maricopa (Academe Blog 4/26/18)
- Volunteer Faculty: The Death Knell for Public Higher Ed (IHE 4/25/18)
- In UK Universities There is a Daily Erosion of Integrity (The Guardian 4/24/18)
- Why Teachers Are Adopting a More Militant Politics (New Republic 4/18/18)
- U Chicago Adjuncts Approve First Union Contract (IHE 4/17/18)
- Korea Think Tank at U.S. University to Close After Seoul Withdraws Funding (Wa Po 4/11/18)
- Lack of Respect for Nontenured Faculty Harms Education Quality (Daily Bruin 4/10/18)
- Striking Resemblances (Public Books 4/5/18)
- A Radical Idea About Adjuncting: Written for Those with Tenure (or on the Tenure Track) (Annemarie Pérez 4/1/18)
- UA Board Adopts Policy on Faculty Tenure, Firing (Arkansas Online 3/30/18)
- Kentucky Legislation Could Limit Tenure Protections (IHE 3/29/18)
- When Accusations of Incivility Spell Doom for Faculty Members (CHE 3/28/18)
- Open University Plans Major Cuts to Number of Staff and Courses (Guardian 3/21/18)
- UCSD Fires Teaching Center Director Without Reason; Hires Administrator’s Wife Instead (The Triton 3/16/18)
- Dan Slilaty: The University’s Single Reason for Being (Academe Blog 3/15/18)
- Universities Threaten to Punish Striking Staff Over Cancelled Lectures (Guardian 3/2/18)
- Resolution Calls Attention to Governance and Ethics Concerns at Tennessee Tech (Academe Blog 3/1/18)
- Debate at University of Tennessee over Posttenure Review Plan (IHE 2/27/18)
- Whose University Is It Anyway? (LARB 2/22/18)
- University Lecturers Begin Strike Action Over Pensions (Guardian 2/22/18)
- Demands Against the Long Crisis of the University (Critical Legal Thinking 2/14/18)
- Historian's 'Quit Lit' Essay Rejects Notion That Leaving Higher Ed Equals Personal Failure (IHE 2/13/18)
- AAUP’s Governance Committee Denounces Remarks by UW System President (Academe Blog 2/9/18)
- UW Madison AAUP Letter to President Cross (Academe Blog 2/6/18)
- Secret Lives of Bay Area Part-Time Profs: Here's Why They Work at Safeway, Live Out of Cars (SFGate 2/5/18)
- What One University System President Really Thinks About Shared Governance (Academe Blog 2/5/18)
- Fee Strike (Critical Legal Thinking 2/2/18)
- Protests Decry USC Administrators' Takeover of Student-Funded Scholarship Program (LAT 1/24/18)
- Maine Professors Oppose Policy on Political Activity (IHE 1/11/18)
2017
- George Ciccariello-Maher Resigns (Academe Blog 12/28/17)
- University of Arkansas Professors Want to Stall Vote on Changes They Say Would Upend Tenure (IHE 12/13/17)
- GAO Report on Non-Tenure-Track Faculty (IHE 11/21/17)
- Full-time Jobs in English and Languages Reach New Low, MLA Report Finds (IHE 11/21/17)
- About that AHA Jobs Chart (The Junto 11/20/17)
- Barnard Adjunct Fights for Her Job (Academe Blog 11/3/17)
- "Tenured Allies" and the Normalization of Contingent Labor (AAUP 10/17)
- Our Job Was to Fix It (AAUP 10/17)
- Growing Reliance on Part-Time Faculty Shortchanges Instructors, Students (Daily Bruin 10/31/17)
- Iranian scholar sentenced to death on spying charge (University World News 10/27/17)
- U. of Arkansas System Considers Changes to Ease Tenured-Faculty Firings (CHE 10/26/17)
- Universities Deplore ‘McCarthyism’ as MP Demands List of Tutors Lecturing on Brexit (Guardian 10/24/17)
- USNWR Letter (10/21/17)
- Bill Would Bar U. of Wisconsin Employees From Working at Planned Parenthood (CHE 10/17/17)
- AAUP letter on Cicariello-Mather (AAUP 10/12/17)
- Veterans Agency Seeks to Scrap Ethics Law on For-Profit Colleges (NYT 9/29/17)
- On the AAUP, Two Distinct Tiers, and Incentivizing Institutions to Hire Part-Time Faculty (Academe Blog 9/28/17)
- CFA, CSU Reach Tentative Agreement on Two-Year Contract Extension (Academe Blog 9/26/17)
- Stony Brook Professors Worry Budget is Being Balanced on Backs of Junior Faculty, Humanities Programs (IHE 9/21/17)
- University of California System Didn't Follow Its Own Contracting Rules, State Audit Finds (LAT 8/22/17)
- University of California Owes More Than $1.3 Million in Underpaid Wages (Cloudminder 8/11/17)
- Is USC Committed to Transparency, or Just Damage Control? (LAT 7/28/17)
- Purge of Turkish Academics is “Staggering” (Academe Blog 7/21/17)
- USC Bosses Flunk the Leadership Test Amid Shocking Allegations About Former Medical School Dean (LAT 7/20/17)
- USC’s Silence On Its Medical School Dean’s Double Life is Deafening (LAT 7/19/17)
- Despite Removal of 70% Retiree Health Care Floor From July Regents' Agenda, Issue Isn't Dead (UCLAFA 7/19/17)
- Faculty Members Who Have Been Lead Critics of Administration Lose Jobs at Sierra Nevada (IHE 7/17/17)
- A Common Plea of Professors: Why Can’t My Faculty Senate Pull More Weight? (CHE 7/6/17)
- Senate Response to Proposed Changes in Retiree Health Care (UC Academic Senate 7/6/17)
- At UMass Boston, Hires Come With Political Connections (Boston Globe 7/4/17)
- Mills College Lays Off Five Tenured Professors (Academe Blog 7/4/17)
- Madison Professors Fight to Keep Requirement for Administrators to be Academics (IHE 7/3/17)
- A Debt (Andrew Goldstone 7/1/17)
- How Tenure-Track and Adjunct Faculty Joined Forces to Unionize at Notre Dame de Namur (IHE 6/30/17)
- Under Fire, These Professors Were Criticized by Their Colleges (CHE 6/28/17)
- Executive Compensation at Private and Public Colleges (CHE 6/27/17)
- Trinity AAUP Statement on the Decision to Place Professor Johnny Williams on Leave (Academe Blog 6/27/17)
- How the Right Stifles Speech With Threats and Violence (New Republic 6/27/17)
- Trinity College in Connecticut Puts Johnny Eric Williams on Leave Over Controversial Comments About Race (IHE 6/27/17)
- Trinity Places Williams on Leave; Fails to Defend Academic Freedom (Academe Blog 6/26/17)
- UC Community Expresses Dissatisfaction With New Regent nominees (Daily Bruin 6/26/17)
- Professors Are Often Political Lightning Rods But Now Are Facing New Threats Over Their Views, Particularly on Race (IHE 6/26/17)
- Professors’ Growing Risk: Harassment for Things They Never Really Said (CHE 6/22/17)
- Can a Single Course Jeopardize an Academic Department? (CHE 6/8/17)
- When Stories Collide (IHE 6/7/17)
- Censorship at the Evanston Public Library (Academe Blog 6/5/17)
- Outsourced UCSF Workers Sue State Regents (Mercury News 5/30/17)
- A Postscript to “One Faculty and Academic Governance” (Academe Blog 5/30/17)
- State Judge Says Yeshiva Can't Terminate Tenure-Track Professors for Financial Reasons, Based On Its Own Policies (IHE 5/25/17)
- New Academe Calls on Faculty to Reclaim Governance Role (Academe Blog 5/23/17)
- State Senator to Introduce a Constitutional Amendment to Limit UC's 138-Year-Old Autonomy (LAT 5/23/17)
- Faculty Voice on the Audit (UCLAFA 5/20/17)
- AAUP Rebukes College for Firing Professor Who Called Armed Student a Threat (CHE 5/16/17)
- Manchester University Accused of Planning 'Clearout' of Senior Staff (The Guardian 5/13/17)
- In Higher Ed, Adjuncts May Have Most to Lose if Obamacare Is Repealed (CHE 5/5/17)
- Mitch Daniels Wants to Sell the Soul of Public Education: Purdue Faculty Must Stop Him (Academe Blog 5/3/17)
- CSU Sudit Critical of Manager Hiring, Executive Compensation (Sac Bee 4/20/17)
- Cal State’s Growth in Hiring of Managers Exceeds Other Staff, Audit Finds (CHE 4/20/17)
- Academic Freedom and AAUP Events Coming Up (Academe Blog 4/12/17)
- AAUP: Faculty Salaries Up Slightly, But Budgets are Balanced 'On the Backs' of Adjuncts and Out-of-State Students (IHE 4/11/17)
- Academic Tenure or Public vs Private Reasons?...Katehi- raising more new questions (Cloudminder 4/2/17)
- Who Moved My Teachers? (Mother Jones 3/31/17)
- AAUP Report Says Adjunct Professor was Likely Fired for Insisting on Rigor in Courses (IHE 3/29/17)
- UC Spent Nearly $1 Million in Probe of Former UC Davis Chancellor Katehi (Sac Bee 3/24/17)
- Seven Years an Adjunct: Part I (Academe Blog 3/12/17)
- Legislative Panel Seeks to Open ‘Intellectual Diversity’ Office at U. of Tennessee (CHE 3/2/17)
- 75 Nontenure Jobs to Be Cut at U. of Oregon, Faculty Union Says (CHE 2/28/17)
- American Authoritarianism and Academic Administration (Academe Blog 2/28/17)
- Rise of the Executive Headhunters (Daily Wildcat 2/24/17)
- How Do I Exploit Thee? Let Me Count The Ways (Academe Blog 2/21/17)
Admin Responses, Faculty, income, strat goal
- A Letter to Iowa Legislators (Academe Blog 2/16/17)
- 'The Great Shame of Our Profession' (CHE 2/12/17)
- The Polarizing Debate Over How to Restore Faculty Tenure (LAWCHA 2/6/17)
- Academic Governance (and Protest) at Fordham (Academe Blog 2/3/17)
- Trump Victory Emboldens Colleges' Outright Conservatism (Atlantic 2/1/17)
- Jerry Falwell Jr. Says He Will Lead Federal Task Force on Higher-Ed Policy (CHE 1/31/17)
- Amid Budget Cuts, North Dakota University System Considers Tenure Policy Change (IHE 1/26/17)
- IA and MO: Proposals to Eliminate Tenure, Cut Higher-Ed Allocations (Academe 1/25/17)
- New Paradigm of Faculty Senate (Academe Blog 1/23/17)
- Legislation in Two States Seeks to Eliminate Tenure in Public Higher Education (IHE 1/13/17)
- UC Tuition Hikes? First Justify Your Administrative Bloat (SD Union Tribune 1/6/17)
- Study Looks at Impact of Adjunct Hiring on College Spending Patterns (IHE 1/5/17)
2016
- Important Legal Victory for Faculty Rights (Academe Blog 12/20/16)
- Faculty Object as Legislators Take Trustee Appointments Away from North Carolina Governor (IHE 12/19/16)
- UC Riverside Provost to Resign Amid Widespread Faculty Concerns Over his Leadership Style (LAT 12/16/16)
- The Death of the Faculty Role (Opseu 558 12/11/16)
- Charles Reed, Assessment, and “The Great Mistake” (Academe Blog 12/10/16)
- LIU Faculty Contract Negotiations Stall Again (IHE 12/9/16)
- Wisconsin Board Approves Posttenure Change (IHE 12/9/16)
- Faculty Members at the University of Wisconsin Oppose a Proposed Change to a New Post-Tenure Review Policy (IHE 12/7/16)
- Sacking of Prominent Geoscientist Rocks Community (Nature 12/5/16)
- New Website Seeks to Register Professors Accused of Liberal Bias and 'Anti-American Values' (IHE 11/22/16)
- As College Costs Rise, So Do the Number of Administrators (Hechinger Report 11/17/16)
- Calif. Community College Faculty Picket for Contract (IHE 11/16/16)
- Free (Or Fettered) to Teach at the Community College? (Academe Blog 11/12/16)
- Cornell Launches Effort to Cut Administrative Red Tape, Starting with Shadow Work (IHE 11/8/16)
- AAUP Intervention in Northwestern Jacqueline Stevens’s Case (Academe Blog 11/6/16)
- "We take the allegations of sexual harassment against Regent Norman Pattiz very seriously..." (Cloudminder 11/3/16)
- The School of Subcontracting (Jacobin 10/25/16)
- University at Buffalo Foundation Turns Down Shared Governance Proposal (IHE 10/19/16)
- If You're Wondering Why NTT Faculty Don't Support Tenure (IHE 10/18/16)
- Trepidation at City College in Wake of President’s Abrupt Exit (NYT 10/13/16)
- Monitoring the Faculty (UCLAFA 10/11/16)
- University Bureaucracies Grew 15 Percent During the Recession, Even as Budgets were Cut and Tuition Increased (The Hechinger Report 10/6/16)
- Life in Academic Poverty as an Underpaid University Teacher (Salon 9/24/16)
- Back to Class with Lots of New Lessons: Debrief on the LIU Lockout (Academe Blog 9/17/16)
- Behind the Lockout (Jacobin 9/15/16)
- Faculty Are Laborers, Not 'Knowledge Workers' (IHE 9/12/16)
- University of California’s Outsourcing is Wrong, Says U.S. Lawmaker (Computer World 9/9/16)
- A Lockout at LIU (The Atlantic 9/7/16)
- Lockout Lessons (Academe Blog 9/4/16)
- In a Major Win For Teachers Unions, California Supreme Court Lets Teacher Tenure Ruling Stand (LAT 8/23/16)
- Study Finds Gains in Faculty Diversity, But Not on the Tenure Track (IHE 8/22/16)
- UCLA Administration Should Learn From Mistakes of Other UC Chancellors (Daily Bruin 8/21/16)
- With a Sudden Vacuum at the Top, What’s Next for Berkeley? (CHE 8/18/16)
- UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks Announces Eesignation (SF Chronicle 8/16/16)
- Employees Sue Four More Universities Over Retirement Plan Fees (NYT 8/11/16)
- M.I.T., N.Y.U. and Yale Are Sued Over Retirement Plan Fees (NYT 8/9/16)
- “Change is Here to Stay” at Union County College (Academe Blog 8/6/16)
- Not Just Students Are Leaving Illinois (Academe Blog 8/4/16)
- The Mess at Oberlin (Academe Blog 8/4/16)
- UC Conflict-of-Interest Rules Raise Questions (IHE 8/2/16)
- Academic Labor: A Response to Bérubé and Ruth (Academe Blog 7/30/16)
- Tenure Tracks and Terminal Degrees: A Reply to Maisto and Kahn (Academe Blog 7/28/16)
- Alarming Changes to UC Regent’s Governance Structure (CUCFA 7/20/16)
- Turkey Sacks 15,000 Education Workers in Purge After Failed Coup (Guardian 7/20/16)
- Celebrating Defeat (Jacobin 7/19/16)
- A Near Coup d'Etat at the University of California (American Thinker 7/15/16)
- Gutting Accountability at the University of California (American Thinker 6/30/16)
- Adjunct Professorships Hurt Students and Educators Alike. Is it Time to Abandon Tenure? (Salon 6/30/16)
- AAUP Rethinks How It Fights Governing Boards (CHE 6/28/16)
- Tenured Faculty Should Help Battle for Opportunities for Graduate Students and Adjuncts (IHE 6/28/16)
- UC Regents Model of Governance, Committee Structure and Assignments Could Change Significantly by September (Cloudminder 6/26/16)
- University of Chicago Professors, Students Upset by Layoffs and School Finances (Chicago Tribune 6/24/16)
- Oberlin College Offers Buyouts to Faculty and Staff (Cleveland 6/24/16)
- Douglas Antola Crowe and the Exploitation of Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty (Academe Blog 6/20/16)
- Andrew Szeri Resigns From Position as Vice Provost of Strategic Academic and Facilities Planning (Daily Cal 6/19/16)
- The Important Role Faculty Members Play in Advising Students (IHE 6/10/16)
- Scott Walker Lies Again (Academe Blog 6/9/16)
- Skeleton Crew (Atlas of a Difficult 6/8/16)
- London University Scraps 400 Jobs and Two Campuses (Guardian 5/31/16)
- Students! Your Lecturers Are on Strike Because They Are Struggling to Survive (Guardian 5/26/16)
- Seeking Diversity at Yale (Academe Blog 5/25/16)
- Baylor University Prepares to Fire President Over Handling of Assaults (IHE 5/25/16)
- UW Colleges Join “No Confidence” Movement (Academe Blog 5/20/16)
- Debating the Value of Tenure (Academe Blog 5/18/16)
- U of Delaware Trustees Vote to Change Faculty Roles and Responsibilities (IHE 5/18/16)
- Leaving UW: Reduced Funding, Politics Force Fond Faculty to Say Farewell (Madison.com 5/14/16)
- UW Struggle: The Toy in the Plastic Bubble (Chuck Rybak 5/13/16)
- UW Struggle: Goodwill Sucking (Chuck Rybak 5/11/16)
- Ray Cross’ Misunderstanding of History Undercuts his Position (Journal Sentinel 5/11/16)
- UWM Faculty Unanimously Join “No Confidence” Parade (Academe Blog 5/10/16)
- UW Struggle: The Bagman Cometh (Chuck Rybak 5/9/16)
- UW President Ray Cross: Tenure Debate Exposed ‘Real Value’ of Removing it From State Law (The Cap Times 5/9/16)
- No Confidence! (Atlas of a Difficult 5/5/16)
- First Layoff Notice at UC Berkeley Spurs Rally, Criticism of Chancellor (East Bay Times 5/5/16)
- Unfunded Mandate: Columbia College, Arts and Sciences, and the Bollinger Era (Columbia Spectator 5/5/16)
- AAUP Report Condemns College of Saint Rose for Cutting More than 20 Tenure-Line Faculty Positions with Insufficient Faculty Input (IHE 5/4/16)
- Fund the Freeze (Academe Blog 4/29/16)
- An Open Letter to the University of Wisconsin – Madison Faculty Senate (Academe Blog 4/28/16)
The Real Outrage at CSU Is Steady Raises for Administrators (Times of San Diego 4/24/16)
- UW Madison Senate No Confidence Resolution (AAUP 4/21/16)
- As UC Berkeley Tries to Close its Deficit, Administrators Feel the Ire of Traditional Faculty Allies (LAT 4/20/16)
- Supporting NTT Faculty at the U of Illinois (Academe Blog 4/20/16)
- NC Supreme Court Upholds Teacher Tenure (Academe Blog 4/18/16)
- Cal State and Faculty Union Agree to 10.5% Salary Raise Over Three Years (LAT 4/8/16)
- Cal State, Faculty's Union Reach Accord Over Salary Dispute (LAT 4/8/16)
- Wisconsin Regents Stymie Madison Faculty’s Bid to Restore Protections From Layoffs (CHE 4/7/16)
- Tenure Rights and the Rise of Title IX: a Looming Culture Clash (CHE 4/7/16)
- U Wisconsin Madison Professors Losing Hope of Preserving Traditional Tenure in Campus Policy (IHE 4/7/16)
- What Professors Off the Tenure Track at 4-Year Colleges Made in 2015-16 (CHE 3/28/16)
- WMU-AAUP on State Divestment From Higher Education (Academe Blog 3/28/16)
- Support for Students and Faculty at the University of Hyderabad (Academe Blog 3/26/16)
- University of Wisconsin and the Aftermath of Destroying Professor Tenure (Slate 3/21/16)
- Chancellor White Turns Back on Faculty (Academe Blog 3/21/16)
- CCSF Faculty Arrested in Contract Protest (Academe Blog 3/14/16)
- Senior Administrators Earned Modest Raises in 2015-16 (IHE 3/14/16)
- Wisconsin: Now the real battle begins. (Academe Blog 3/11/16)
- Why the University of Wisconsin’s Proposed Layoff Policy is Dangerous (Academe Blog 3/9/16)
- On (Wisconsin) (Sara Goldrick-Rab 3/7/16)
- UW Tenure: A Challenger Appears (Language Politics 3/4/16)
- Budget Deficit Leads to 55 Layoffs at Illinois’s John A. Logan College (CHE 3/3/16)
- Report on Controversial Wisconsin Tenure Survey (IHE 3/1/16)
- President Wins an Award for Cutting Tenured Faculty Jobs (IHE 2/29/16)
- Achieving the Dream Seeks Stronger Faculty Role in College Completion Agenda (IHE 2/25/16)
- Purdue Increasing Graduate Student Stipends as it Cuts Graduate Enrollment (IHE 2/23/16)
- UW Tenure: Endgame (Nicholas Fleisher 2/19/16)
- Proposed Pension Limits will Lead to UC’s Decline (Sac Bee 2/18/16)
- Lecturers in Limbo (Daily Cal 2/12/16)
- Academics and Academic Groups Respond with Fury Over Firing of 2 Professors at Mount St. Mary's (IHE 2/10/16)
- Kansas Bill Would Kill Community College Tenure (IHE 2/10/16)
- The Latest in Administrative Overreach (Academe Blog 2/9/16)
- Mount St. Mary's President Fires Two Faculty Members, One With Tenure (IHE 2/9/16)
- Lecturers’ Union, UC Reach Agreement Regarding New Employee Contract (Daily Bruin 2/8/16)
- CFA Announces Dates of Potential CSU Strike (Academe Blog 2/8/16)
- Wheaton in Illinois and Professor It Moved to Fire Reach Agreement For Her to Resign (IHE 2/8/16)
- Wisconsin Regents Committee Approves Tenure Changes Without Discussion (Academe Blog 2/6/16)
- No Confidence at City Colleges Chicago, U of Akron (IHE 2/5/16)
- Privacy, Data Security, and Shared Governance at the University of California (Academe Blog 2/1/16)
- #FakeTenure in Wisconsin Has Arrived (Sara Goldrick-Rab 2/1/16)
- UC Riverside Faculty Survey Suggests Outrage at Cluster-Hiring Initiative (IHE 2/1/16)
- “Not Contractually Obligated” (Academe Blog 1/28/16)
- Campus Community Should Rally Behind Laid Off Staff (Daily Cal 1/26/16)
- On the Firing of a Tenured Professor (Academe Blog 1/26/16)
- Education Department's Inspector General's High-Stakes Audit of Western Governors U (IHE 1/15/16)
- Mixed Reviews for Plan to Change Tennessee Higher Education Governance (IHE 1/14/16)
- Why Do the Media Cry “Crisis” About Public Schools? Why Do They Ignore the Voices of Teachers? (Diane Ravitch 1/13/16)
- UC Lecturers Deserve a Fair Contract (1/16)
- Private College Presidents' Draft List of Essential Qualities for Institutions Leaves Off Tenure (IHE 1/6/16)
2015
- We Now Know, or, Another Semester Older, Deeper in Debt: Takeaways from the UW Struggle, 2015 (AtlasofaDifficult 12/29/15)
- Special Magistrate Sides with UF Faculty Union (Gainesville 12/29/15)
- NACIQI: Where is the Faculty? (Academe Blog 12/22/15)
- UC Payroll Problem Shortchanged Thousands of Workers (Sac Bee 12/18/15)
- U Wisconsin Faculty Say They'd Want to Leave State if Tenure Were Ended (IHE 12/17/15)
- UC Berkeley Facing Budget Challenges Hires Another Vice Chancellor (Daily Cal 12/16/15)
- Chico State Senate Votes ‘No Confidence’ in Campus Administration (Academe Blog 12/15/15)
- Why Don’t They Show Up? (IHE 12/15/15)
- Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Advocates Oppose Proposed Changes to NEASC Standards (IHE 12/15/15)
- 50 Faculty Jobs Will Be Eliminated at Western Illinois (IHE 12/14/15)
- Saint Rose Cuts 23 Faculty Jobs, 27 Programs (IHE 12/14/15)
- Saint Rose Faculty Informed of Cuts Friday (Times Union 12/11/15)
- Wisconsin Faculty Leaders Oppose Draft Tenure Policy (IHE 12/1/15)
- USC Faculty Moves Ahead With Union Election Plan, Despite Warning of Increased Hostility (LAT 11/24/15)
- November 20 UC Regents Meeting - Not necessary?! (Cloudminder 11/19/15)
- Fighting for Five With the CFA (Academe Blog 11/18/15)
- UW Madison TAs Protest Working Conditions (IHE 11/13/15)
- Has UW-Milwaukee’s Administration Circumvented Wisconsin State Law? (Ragman's Circles 11/12/15)
- The Errors of Campus Shared Services: We’re Not Making Widgets (Berkeley Blog 11/10/15)
- An Open Letter to My Colleagues at University of Wisconsin-Madison (Academe Blog 11/9/15)
- Cal State Fullerton Upholds Reprimand for Professor Who Wouldn't Assign $180 Textbook (IHE 11/9/15)
- UNC Faculty Upset by Raises for Chancellors (IHE 11/6/15)
- AAUP Statement on Developments in the University of Wisconsin System (AAUP 11/5/15)
- The Instructors Who Seek a Voice From Academe’s Margins (CHE 11/5/15)
- CUNY Faculty and Staff Take Militant Action! (Academe Blog 11/5/15)
- CUNY Faculty Members Arrested After Staging Protest (NYT 11/4/15)
- Cal State Faculty Overwhelmingly Authorize Strike (LAT 11/4/15)
- U of Wisconsin Madison Approves Faculty-Backed Tenure Policy (IHE 11/3/15)
- Study Suggests Instructional Spending Leads to Better Student Employment Outcomes (IHE 11/2/15)
- Is Wisconsin System Chief Backtracking on Tenure? (IHE 11/2/15)
- An Open Letter On the Subversion of Tenure and Shared Governance in the University of Wisconsin System (11/15)
- Rebecca Blank: UW Officials Undermined Push to Write New Tenure Rules (Madison 10/31/15)
- Florida Community College to Consider Salary Bids From Potential Faculty Members (IHE 10/30/15)
- Rebecca Blank Email to John Behling (Madison 10/29/15)
- UNC Presidential Pick Margaret Spellings Highlights System's Desire for Political Acumen (IHE 10/26/15)
- Professorial Anger, Then and Now (CHE, Chris Newfield 10/24/15)
- Statement Of The UNC Faculty Assembly on the UNC President Search Process (With News Updates) (Remaking 10/21/15)
- In Search for College Chiefs, Faculty Input Can Feel Like a Mere Formality (CHE 10/20/15)
- UNC Presidential Search in Chaos Amid Charges of Politicization and Secrecy (IHE 10/19/15)
- Lecturer Bargaining Blog 2015 (University Council-AFT)
- Connecticut State U Professors See Administration Proposal as an Attack on Tenure (IHE 10/9/15)
- Columbia College Part-Time Faculty Union Votes No Confidence in Administration (IHE 10/7/15)
- Why Is College So Expensive if Professors Are Paid So Little? (The Nation 9/20/15)
- Florida Atlantic University Threatens to End Tenure 78 (Memory Hole 9/19/15)
- New Paper Argues for More Investment in Instruction in Higher Education (IHE 9/17/15)
- An Academic Reputation at Risk (CHE 9/14/15)
- Leaving Wisconsin (Jesse Stommel 9/9/15)
- Ex-San Jose State President To Get $261,000 in 'Transition Salary' (LAT 9/9/15)
- U of Iowa Senate Votes 'No Confidence' in Regents (IHE 9/9/15)
- U. of Georgia Bets $4.4 Million That Small Classes Can Bolster Learning (CHE 9/8/15)
- Appointment of Businessman Bruce Harreld as Next U of Iowa President Upsets Faculty (IHE 9/4/15)
- Faculty Non-Poaching Lawsuit Alleges Suppression of Wages and Violation of Anti-Trust Laws by Duke U (IHE 8/24/15)
- The ‘Flipped Classroom’ is Professional Suicide (Kernel 8/23/15)
- Ashland University Lays Off Tenured Faculty, Calls Financial Future 'Bright' (IHE 8/17/15)
- UC's $15 Minimum Wage Leaves Out Many Workers (LAT 8/12/15)
- Northwestern U's Arts and Sciences College Updates Titles for Teaching Faculty and Offers Path to Promotion (IHE 8/12/15)
- Two American U. Professors Say They Didn't Get Tenure Due to Their Age (IHE 8/4/15)
- UC Paid Former President Mark Yudof $546,000 in the Year After He Resigned (Sac Bee 7/29/15)
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Responds to Massive Cuts in State Support (IHE 7/29/15)
- When Activism Is Worth the Risk (CHE 7/20/15)
- The Dismantling of Higher Education (Aljazeera 7/19/15)
- An Open Letter to Those Who Hate Teachers (Dissent and Cookies 7/17/15)
- Stirring Fear and Hope, U. of Akron Mulls an Aggressive Move Online (CHE 7/15/15)
- The Withering of a Once-Great State University (CHE 7/13/15)
- Wisconsin Higher Ed Changes Are Now Law (IHE 7/13/15)
- Hidden Meaning? (UCLAFA 6/29/15)
- Louisiana State’s Firing of Salty Professor Renews Worries About Faculty Right (CHE 6/26/15)
- In Regents We Trust? (Reclaim UC 6/15/15)
- AAUP Resolution on Wisconsin (AAUP 6/13/15)
- Scholarly Associations Defend Tenure and Academic Freedom in Wisconsin (AAR 6/11/15)
- If We Don’t Hang Together … (Chronicle Vitae 6/11/15)
- Lecturers Deserve Better Benefits, Greater Job Security (Daily Cal 6/8/15)
- They Really Are The Party of Stupid: The Real Story Behind Scott Walker’s War on Higher Education (Salon 6/7/15)
- Tenure Firmly in Place, but Colleges Grow Wary of Lasting Commitments (NYT 6/6/15)
- Scott Walker’s Effort to Weaken College Tenure (NYT 6/5/15)
- Faculty Members Protest Tenure, Shared Governance Changes to Board of Regents (IHE 6/5/15)
- Move to Undermine Tenure in Wisconsin has National Implications (IHE 6/5/15)
- UW System Regents Committee Rejects Proposal to Fight Controversial Tenure Changes by Legislature (WSJ 6/5/15)
- Wisconsin’s Fight Over Faculty Rights: What’s at Stake, and What’s Next (CHE 6/4/15)
- Unions Subdued, Scott Walker Turns to Tenure at Wisconsin Colleges (NYT 6/4/15)
- The End of Tenure In Wisconsin? (Hank Reichman, Academe Blog, 6/2/15)
- Wisconsin Faculty Incensed by Motion to Eliminate Tenure From State Statute (IHE 6/1/15)
- Don't Mourn... The Imminent Abolition of Tenure Creates a Threat As Well As An Opening (AtlasOfADifficult 5/30/15)
- Two-Fifths of Staff on Casual Contracts Struggling to Pay the Bills (UCU 5/20/15)
- Professors Face Long Odds in Court Battles Over Speech Rights (CHE 5/21/15)
- Kids Today: A Response to Mark Bauerlein (IHE 5/10/15)
- Selling (Out) the Good Old Days (Mark Bauerlein 5/10/15)
- They Turned College Into McDonald’s: Adjunct Professors, Fast-Food Wages and How Colleges Screw More Than Just Students (Salon 5/2/15)
- What Do I Tell My Students? (Rachel Leventhal-Weiner 4/30/15)
- AAUP Slams U of Illinois Handling of Steven Salaita Case (IHE 4/28/15)
- 8 Courses a Year for Every Professor? N.C. Lawmakers Ponder the Possibility (CHE 4/23/15)
- Does Instructional Quality Matter to the UC? (Changing Universities 4/21/15)
- Labor Conference Panel Centers on Contract Provisions for Adjuncts for Course Cancellation Payments and More (IHE 4/21/15)
- Ohio Bill would Effectively Bar Faculty Unions at Public Colleges (IHE 4/17/15)
- Casualisation Through Internal Outsourcing (Our Kingdom 4/9/15)
- Warwick Uni to Outsource Hourly Paid Academics to Subsidiary (F.A.C.E. 4/3/15)
- Union Fights Massachusetts State Colleges' Challenge to Cap on Part-Time Faculty (IHE 4/1/15)
- Proposal would Require UNC Professors to Teach Eight Courses a Year (Daily Tarheel 3/31/15)
- Anger Over State Board's Decision Not to Renew U. of Mississippi Chancellor (IHE 3/23/15)
- Tenure Is on Life Support (Jonathan Rees 3/20/15)
- Denial of Entry to Professor Troubling (AAUP 3/19/15)
- N.Y.U. Professor Is Barred by United Arab Emirates (NYT 3/16/15)
- NYU Professor is Denied Entry to the UAE, where the University has a Campus (IHE 3/18/15)
- Presidents say they Want More Input in Faculty Hiring and Tenure Decisions (IHE 3/13/15)
- AAUP Assails Wisconsin Governor’s Autonomy Plan (CHE 3/12/15)
- The University of Tennessee Is Being Lauded as a Higher-Ed Role Model—Just Not for Its Workers (The Nation 3/6/15)
- U. Tennessee System Backtracks on 'De-Tenure' Language (IHE 3/3/15)
- UW-Madison Chancellor Comes Under Fire for Comments about how she Matches Outside Faculty Offers (IHE 3/3/15)
- Purdue Employees Protest Plan to Cut Employee Leave Time (IHE 3/2/15)
- On the Meaning of De-Tenure (Parezco y Digo 2/27/15)
- Alexander says Congress will Pass Higher Ed Act This Year, Backs Plan to Cut Regulations on Colleges (IHE 2/25/15)
- Chomsky: How America's Great University System Is Being Destroyed (Alternet 2/24/15)
- Yale Professors Object to 'Vague' New Faculty Conduct Policy (IHE 2/24/15)
- New Delphi Project Report Outlines Evolving Faculty Models and Growing Support for Reform (IHE 2/20/15)
- America’s “Visiting Professor” Scam: How Colleges are Watering Down Higher Education (Salon 2/19/15)
- New Faculty Model at U. Denver Could be Prototype for Reform (IHE 2/17/15)
- Berkeley Tries to Track and Address Salary Gaps Among Professors (IHE 2/6/15)
- Essay on the Continuing Importance of the Carnegie Unit for Academic Credit (IHE 1/30/15)
- New Economic Policy Institute Report Details Economic Challenges Facing UC Workers (Calitics 1/26/15)
- UW Could Face $300 Million Revenue Loss, Changes to Tenure, Shared Governance (Media Milwaukee 1/23/15)
- Arizona State U. Backs Down from some Details of a Controversial Plan for Writing Instructors (IHE 1/23/15)
- 2015 Survey of Chief Academic Officers (IHE 1/22/15)
- U. of North Carolina President’s Ouster Comes Amid Political Shift (CHE 1/16/15)
- The Emergence of the ‘Precariat’: What Does The Loss of Stable, Well-Compensated Employment Mean for Education? (Albert Shanker Institute 1/15)
- Mississippi Governor Said to Interfere in Search for Community College System Leader (IHE 1/16/15)
- Adjuncts Stall U. of Memphis Attempt to Privatize Their Social Security (IHE 1/13/15)
- Administrators, Authority, and Accountability (CHE 1/6/15)
- Michigan Coaching Situation Shows Presidents Lack Control Over Big-Time Sports (IHE 1/5/15)
2014
- NLRB Ruling Shifts Legal Ground on Faculty Unions at Private Colleges (IHE 12/22/14)
- Raising Ambitions: The Challenge in Teaching at Community Colleges (NYT 12/19/14)
- ASU English by the Numbers: It Ain't Pretty (IHE 12/18/14)
- Governor to Target Retiree Health Care (UCLAFA 12/17/14)
- ASU and the Non-Tenured Human Shields (IHE 12/16/14)
- Arizona State Tells Non-Tenure-Track Writing Instructors to Teach an Extra Course Each Semester (IHE 12/16/14)
- Essay On The Way Higher Education Reformers Misunderstand the Role of Professors (IHE 12/8/14)
- Georgia Southern University Investigating a Professor Accused of Proselytizing in His Classes (IHE 11/26/14)
- Video: Public Colleges Face Major Threat From Some Trustees, Says AAU Chief (CHE 11/25/14)
- Colleges’ Prestige Doesn’t Guarantee a Top-Flight Learning Experience (CHE 11/20/14)
- Quit Picking on Old Professors (Slate 11/19/14)
- The Shrinking Academic Workforce (IHE 11/14/14)
- Colleges Turn to Athletics Directors with Business Backgrounds, but Results Vary (IHE 11/7/14)
- Tough Times for Colleges Mean Boom Times for Higher Ed’s Hired Guns (CHE 11/4/14)
- Showdown At The University of Texas (Public Books 11/1/14)
- “Organizing within Our Changing Profession” (The Academe Blog 9-10/14)
- Let's Talk About Teacher Retention, Not Tenure (Huff Po 10/30/14)
- Essay on How Tenure-Track Faculty Members Should Treat Adjuncts (IHE 10/24/14)
- Should Professors Be Told Why They Were Denied Tenure? (IHE 10/9/14)
- Essay On the Way Many Reformers of Higher Education are Ignoring the Faculty Role (IHE 10/7/14)
- Clash Between Chicago State U. and Its Faculty Leaders Redefines Hardball (CHE 10/6/14)
- Adjuncts, Retirements and Sexual Harassment: A Survey of Campus HR Leaders (IHE 9/29/14)
- Higher Education’s Aristocrats (Jacobin 9/27/14)
- Up Next for UI Trustees: Decision on Kilgore (News-Gazette 9/23/14)
- Professors on Food Stamps: The Shocking True Story of Academia in 2014 (Salon 9/21/14)
- UCLA vs. Kaiser (UCLAFA 9/17/14)
- Koch Brothers Sought Say in Academic Hiring in Return for University Donation (Guardian 9/12/14)
- National Science Foundation Researcher Fired For Political Activism (io9 9/11/14)
- Wesleyan U. Fires University Librarian after Disagreement with Provost (IHE 9/11/14)
- Illinois Chancellor Sees Errors in Process, Not Outcome (IHE 9/5/14)
- 300 Protest Take-Backs in UMass Amherst Contracts (MTA 9/14)
- Can the Board of Trustees Really Revoke My Job Offer? (Syndi Dunn 8/21/14)
- Northeastern Professors Raise Questions about Three Tenure Denials (IHE 8/11/14)
- Academics Anonymous: An Open Letter to University "Leaders" (Guardian 8/8/14)
- A Democracy Index for Higher Education (Changing Universities 8/7/14)
- 2014 Update of Total Remuneration Study for General Campus Ladder Rank Faculty (UC 7/30/14)
- New York Educators Fight Back on Attacks to Tenure (NYT 7/29/14)
- Power and Income Inequality in the UC System and Beyond (Changing Universities 7/29/14)
- Adjuncts at Risk for Anxiety, Depression (IHE 7/28/14)
- Colleges Assign Adjunct Hiring to a Third Party (IHE 7/21/14)
- Tenure Haters’ Big Delusion: Why Campbell Brown and Bo. are Wrong About Teaching (Salon 7/16/14)
- The Disparity between Male and Female Wages (Cloudminder 7/8/14)
- Who's Really got Tenure? (Fredrik deBoer 7/3/14)
- How the Near-Sacking of a University President Exposed the Fault Lines of American Higher Education (The Hedgehog Review 7/14)
- The Student Fight for All University Staff to be Paid a Living Wage (New Statesman 6/26/14)
- Discussion Focuses on Envisioning Faculty Models of the Future (IHE 6/23/14)
- The Big Money Behind California's Tenure Lawsuit (Truthout 6/19/14)
- Mother Crusader Follows the Money in Vergara (Diane Ravitch 6/17/14)
- The Teaching Class (Guernica 6/16/14)
- Judge Strikes Down California’s Teacher Tenure Laws: A Made-Up Statistic Helped Him Reach the Decision (Slate 6/12/14)
- K-12 Tenure Declared Unconstitutional in California: Could Higher Ed be Next? (Changing Universities 6/11/14)
- “Strict Scrutiny” of Vergara Ruling a Setback for California Teachers (InterACT 6/11/14)
- Why That Ruling Against Teacher Tenure Won't Help your Schoolchildren (LAT 6/11/14)
- David Welch: The Man Behind Vergara v. California (Capital and Main 2/20/14)
- What Was the Evidence in the Vergara Case? Who Wins? Who Loses? (Diane Ravitch 6/11/14)
- College Headhunters, Accustomed to Secrecy, Find Themselves Under Scrutiny (CHE 6/10/14)
- California Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional (NYT 6/10/14)
- Four Faculty Members Offer to Job Share a President's Duties and Salary (IHE 6/9/14)
- Florida State U. Faculty Open New Front in Battle over Presidential Searches (IHE 6/6/14)
- U. Nebraska Changes Role of Faculty and Students in High-Level Searches (IHE 6/4/14)
- Higher Education's Missing Faculty Voices (NYT 6/2/14)
- Report Reveals Gender Inequity in UCLA Anderson Faculty (Daily Bruin 6/2/14)
- Cal State Plans Push to Hire More Full-Time Faculty (LAT 6/1/14)
- UC Announces Changes to Retiree Health Benefits Eligibility Rules (Daily Cal 5/28/14)
- Fat-Cat Administrators at the Top 25 (NYT 5/23/14)
- UCLA Football Assistants Get Pay Raise (LAT 5/22/14)
- The Erosion of Faculty Rights (CHE 5/19/14)
- Student Debt Grows Faster at Universities With Highest-Paid Leaders, Study Finds (NYT 5/18/14)
- Coaches, Not Presidents, Top Public-College Pay List (CHE 5/16/14)
- Quinnipiac Faculty 'Reeling' From Rapid Cuts (IHE 5/14/14)
- Essay Calls for New Model Job of Faculty Member-Administrator (IHE 5/12/14)
- Even with Fiscal Contraction Universities Find Money to Hire Administrators (Academe Blog 4/21/14)
- Krugman and the Problems of Superstar Hiring (IHE 4/21/14)
- AAUP Officers Win Elections That Focused on Their Union Emphasis (CHE 4/18/14)
- Fears of Litigation vs. Faculty Rights (IHE 4/18/14)
- UIC Faculty Agrees to Tentative Contract (Chicago Tribune 4/16/14)
- Competing Views of Teacher Tenure Are on Display in California Case (NYT 4/16/14)
- Jersey Impasse (IHE 4/16/14)
- Sudden Reprieve (IHE 4/14/14)
- Paid-For Legislature Takes Teacher Tenure From Thousands In Kansas (FDL 4/7/14)
- Tenure Malpractice? (IHE 4/3/14)
- As a New Lawsuit Seeks to Radically Transform Teaching Conditions, an Expert Warns of Our Nation's Education Shift (Salon 4/2/14)
- College Trustees in Wall Street Club Clash With Campus Culture (CHE 3/31/14)
- Peter Taylor to Step Down in April (LAT 3/25/14)
- Exiled in Maine (IHE 3/24/14)
- Careful, He Might Think He Works Here (Pan Kisses Kafka 3/23/14)
- Study Results:An Ethos of Respect and Inclusion (Campus Climate Study 3/19/14)
- What Are Your Terms? (IHE 3/19/14)
- Negotiated Out of a Job (IHE 3/13/14)
- Columbia University Fired Two Eminent Public Intellectuals. Here’s Why It Matters. (The Nation 3/12/14)
- Grant Quota to Be Paid (IHE 3/10/14)
- Teach For America’s Unspoken Alliance with the One Percent (Naked Capitalism 3/3/14)
- Public Salary Recovery (IHE 3/3/14)
- Judge's Ruling Tilts Curricular Control Toward CUNY Administrators (CHE 2/26/14)
- Internal Documents Reveal Charter Expansion, TFA Go Hand in Hand (EduShyster 2/25/14)
- Time for a Union? (IHE 2/21/14)
- UCLA's Jim Mora is Likely Pac-12's Second-Highest Paid Coach at Public School (LAT 2/18/14)
- Dean in UCSD Money "Laundering" Case to Step Down (SD Reader 2/17/14)
- Faculty on Strike (Jacobin 2/14/14)
- Yet Another $450,000 Man Arrives at UCSD (SD Reader 2/13/14)
- Elizabeth Warren vs. The Neoliberals: The Battle Over Americans’ Retirement Security (Salon 2/12/14)
- Chinese Dissident Lands at Cato Institute With a Caution to Colleges (NYT 2/9/14)
- UCLA Revises Travel Rules After Investigation (IHE 2/6/14)
- Administrator Hiring Drove 28% Boom in Higher-Ed Work Force (CHE 2/5/14)
- It's Not Faculty Salaries (IHE 2/5/14)
- Philosophy of Sexism? (IHE 2/3/14)
- Fight Over Effective Teachers Shifts to Courtroom (NYT 1/31/14)
- Congress Notices the Loss of Tenure (Changing Universities 1/28/14)
- Lawsuit Takes on California Teachers' Job Protections (LAT 1/25/14)
- Crowded Out of Ivory Tower, Adjuncts See a Life Less Lofty (NYT 1/19/14)
- Protecting Faculty Records (IHE 1/14/14)
- Change the Tenure System (IHE 1/13/14)
- Losing Tenure for Being Difficult? (IHE 1/8/14)
- Missouri: Billionaire Donates $750,000 to End Teacher Tenure (Diane Ravitch's blog 1/4/14)
- Raising the Bar on Faculty (IHE 1/2/14)
2013
- Kansas Regents Backpedal on New Social Media Policy (CJ Online 12/31/13)
- Pension/Retiree Health Initiative that Includes UC Just Keeps Advancing (UCLAFA 12/21/13)
- Dirks Names UC Berkeley Alumnus Robert Lalanne First-Ever Vice Chancellor for Real Estate (Daily Cal 12/17/13)
- Chancellor at University of California to Become Chief at Gates Foundation (NYT 12/17/13)
- UC Reaches Collective Bargaining Agreement With Lecturers’ Union (Daily Bruin 12/12/13)
- Michigan President: Shared Services Show Must Go On (IHE 12/12/13)
- Economic Pressures Lead to Fewer Full-Time Faculty (Daily Bruin 12/9/13)
- Tensions Rise as Indiana Schools Chief and Governor Clash Over New Agency (NYT 12/8/13)
- Pushed Out of a Job Early (NYT 12/6/13)
- Innovation -- Doomed to Fail? (IHE 12/6/13)
- Professors to Grad Students: Focus on Studies, Not Wages (The Nation 12/4/13)
- The Jobs We Want? (IHE 12/4/13)
- More College Adjuncts See Strength in Union Numbers (NYT 12/3/13)
- U. of Michigan Delays Controversial 'Shared Services' Plan (IHE 12/3/13)
- Employed But ... (IHE 12/2/13)
- The Great Stratification (CHE 12/2/13)
- Sorry, Neoliberals: Inequality is Driven by Greed, not Technology (Salon 11/30/13)
- Union Election, Not NLRB Vote (IHE 11/27/13)
- Corporate Values (IHE 11/25/13)
- UC Berkeley Academic Senate Discusses Optimizing Faculty Size (Daily Cal 11/24/13)
- UC Recognizes Union of American Physicians and Dentists (Daily Bruin 11/22/13)
- Shared Services Backlash (IHE 11/21/13)
- MSUM Considers Cuts in Tenured Faculty, Program Closures to Fix Projected $5 Million Deficit (In Forum 11/20/13)
- Lawmakers Told of Health-Care Law's Harmful Effect on Adjuncts and Colleges (CHE 11/15/13)
- UC Faculty in Support of Graduate Students (Move On 11/13/13)
- Research Universities Are Praised for Returning Focus to Undergrad Education (CHE 11/12/13)
- Inside the Backlash to Steve Alford's Hiring (OC Register 10/30/13)
- Even in New York, Adjuncts' Paychecks Can Take Their Sweet Time (CHE 10/29/13)
- Wellness Plans, Retirement and Adjunct Health Care: A Survey of Chief HR Officers (IHE 10/25/13)
- Google Cars Versus Public Transit: The US’s Problem With Public Goods (Ethan Zuckerman 10/15/13)
- Adjunct Inequities (IHE 10/15/13)
- Let’s Pop the Bubble Surrounding Part-Time Faculty (CHE 10/11/13)
- Union Impact and Non-Impact (IHE 10/8/13)
- NYU Again Tells Union It's Willing to Bargain—but Not With Everyone (CHE 10/7/13)
- Open Letter from BFA to Senate Chair Betty Deakin – “School first, sports second” (UCBFA 9/24/13)
- New Threat to Shared Governance (IHE 9/9/13)
- UCLA Dean Travel Scandal Change Petition (Change.org 8/13)
- On the Death of Democratic Higher Education (The Nation 8/21/13)
- Submission: UC officials’ spending demands accountability (Daily Bruin 8/19/13)
- “Indescribably Insane”: A Public School System From Hell (Salon 8/19/13)
- Change at NYU (IHE 8/15/13)
- Faculty Groups in California Disagree on Whether a Proposed Overload Law Would Limit the Practice or Promote it (IHE 8/13/13)
- Editorial: UC Can't Gripe About Cuts While Padding Pay (SacBee 8/12/13)
- Kim Wilcox appointed ninth chancellor of UC Riverside (LAT 8/8/13)
- UC Just Can't Help Itself (8/7/13)
- Texas Community College Fires Tenured Faculty Activist (CHE 8/2/13)
- Contingent Historians Profiled in New OAH Report (8/1/13)
- UCLA Bigs Fly First Class, Stay in Luxury (UTSD 8/1/13)
- Tenure: What’s Not Wrong With Higher Education (SadIron 7/31/13)
- Union Raises for Adjuncts (IHE 7/26/13)
- The Napolitano Appointment and the Regents' Rejection of the University (Remaking 7/21/13)
- What we Talk about when we Talk about Enrollments (Exhaust Fumes 7/14/13)
- Accreditors Under Challenge (IHE 6/14/13)
- Gordon Gee and The Road That Should Not Have Been Taken (Time 6/6/13)
- Colleges and Universities Devalue Librarians (CHE 3/18/13)
- NYU Faculty Vote No Confidence in Sexton (NYT 3/16/13)
- University of Maryland Considering Major Steps to Improve Working Conditions of Faculty Off the Tenure Track (CHE 3/5/13)
- Criticism of Emory President Continues (IHE 2/28/13)
- Emory President Holds Out 3/5 Compromise as Example of Virtue of Political Compromise (Emory Magazine 2/24/13)
- Teaching Students Who Adjuncts Are (IHE 2/6/13)
- Dangers of Visiting Professorships (CHE 2/4/13)
- More on The Growth of Management at UC (UniversityProbe 1/30/13)
- AAUP Issues New Report on Adjunct's Role in Governance and Protections for Adjuncts (IHE 1/23/13)
- Administrative Panel at UC Davis Decides that Davis Administration Didn't Violate Professor's Academic Freedom (CHE 1/14/13)
2012
- Trustees Are Looking for University Presidents Who Don't Worry about Honoring Shared Governance (CHE 1/14/12)
2011
- What’s Next for Wisconsin? (IHE 6/6/11)
- In for Nasty Weather (IHE 5/16/11)
- Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education (The Nation 5/4/11)
- 10 Years to Tenure at Michigan (IHE 4/25/11)
- UC Berkeley Hires World Bank Hedge-Fund Economist with No Educational Experience as VC-Admin (Roberty Birgeneau 1/20/11)
2010
- Facult Senate Leaders Often Lack Influence at Reseaarch Us (CHE 11/9/10)
- Harry Powell on UCOF and Shared Governance (SenateSource 8/10)
- Senate Chair Letter Declining Endorsement of UCPB Choices Rpt (Henry Powell 8/31/10)
- Faculty Lack the Group Skills to Save Themselves (IHE 8/20/10)
- Gender and Faculty Service (IHE 8/13/10)
- UC Davis' Version of Operation Excellence (Linda Katehi 7/10)
- Berkeley's Christopher Kutz on UCOF, UCOP, UCRP, and UCB Police (UC Budget Cuts 6/17/10)
- Berkeley Division Sets Up Own UC Futures Committee (5/24/10)
- Tenured Faculty and Faculty Exploitation (Bousquet, CHE 5/19/10)
- UCPB Choices Report (4/10)
- Faculty Initiative To Reform UC Government (Berkeley Senate Meeting 4/22/10)
- Faculty Making Budget Cuts at UNC (CHE 4/2/10)
- Task Force Report on New Rules for Academic and Research Program Creation and Review (Senate 3/10)
- Proposed New Rules for Creation, Change, Evaluation, and Elimination of Academic and Research Programs and Units (Senate 3/10)
- President Yudof Responds to Senate Leaders on Shared Governance (Yudof 3/16/10)
- Senate Leaders to Pres Yudof on Shared Governance (Academic Council 3/2/10)
2009
- UC Senate Report on Distance Education (11/3/09)
2008
- Yudof On University Systems (CHE 2/15/08)