Remaking the University II: Knowledge Strikes Back: January 2007

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Kennedy says UI Shouldn't Employ Anyone with History of Terrorism (News-Gazette 5/9/14)
On the Threats to Academic Freedom Posed by Administrations and Boards seeking Control via Social Media (Michael Meranze 3/4/14)
Bill Ayers Denied Emeritus Status By University Of Illinois (Huff Po 9/24/10)

2015 UC Tuition Hikes

2015

To Fix California's Colleges, Reform Prop. 13 by Taxing Corporations More (LAT 11/2/15)
UC Students, Administrators Come to Preliminary Agreement on Tuition Hike Policy (Daily Cal 10/7/15)
UC Law Students Celebrate Exemption from Supplemental Fee Increases (LAT 5/25/15)
Ara Shirinian: California Budget Revision would Compromise Quality of UC Education (Daily Bruin 5/19/15)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Budget Deal (Changing Universities 5/18/15)
More Than Money at Stake in University of California Budget Negotiations (Sac Bee 3/23/15)
Jerry Brown, Janet Napolitano Stand their Ground on UC Tuition (SF Gate 3/19/15)
UC President Napolitano Caught on video Calling Student Protest ‘Crap’ (SF Gate 3/18/15)
Napolitano: "This Tuition Increase Won't Even Affect Them" - and her pivot on Title IX (Cloudminder 3/14/15)
University of California plans to Limit Resident Enrollment (SacBee 3/3/15)
UC Falsely Describes Tuition Plan as "Robin Hood" Scheme (Vernon, DailyCal 3/3/15)
Budget Standoff Leaves California College Hopefuls in Limbo (ABC 3/2/15)
Voters Strongly Oppose UC Tuition Hike, Poll Finds (LAT 2/28/15)
Can UC Answer These 5 Big Questions About Its Spending? (KQED 2/19/15)
Tuition Hike put on Hold for UC Summer School (LAT 2/18/15)
State Assembly Proposes Audit of UC Budget (New University 2/17/15)
Stage III (UCLAFA 1/30/15)
UCSA Demands Greater Fiscal Transparency of Regents (Daily Cal 1/27/15)
UC's Funding Tangle Goes Beyond Today's Dispute (LAT 1/18/15)
UC President, Gov. Brown to Jointly Review University Finances (LAT 1/17/15)
Essay Sees the Possible Collapse of Austerity Politics Around Higher Education (Christopher Newfield 1/12/15)
UC Student Association Passes Vote of No Confidence in UC Regents and UC President Janet Napolitano (Daily Cal 1/11/15)
UC-AFT Proposes New Way to Create Affordability and Access with Quality (Changing Universities 1/9/15)
If Jerry Had a Hammer (UCLAFA 1/7/15)
The Tea Leaves Games, The Already Baked, And All Those 'If -Then' Promises (Cloudminder 1/2/15)

2014

Finally, UC Gets Budget Attention (LAT 12/29/14)
The History of UC Tuition Since 1868 (Daily Cal 12/22/14)
That Other Half (Cloudminder 12/21/14)
Brown, Legislature Study Ways to Avoid UC, Cal State Tuition Hikes (LAT 12/10/14)
UC’s Rising Tuition Sparks Bill to End College System’s Autonomy (SFGate 12/5/14)
Sen. Lara Proposes Giving Lawmakers Some Control of UC System (LAT 12/3/14)
California Lawmakers Set Goals as New Legislature Convenes (LAT 12/1/14)
Listen to the Regents Morning Meeting of Nov. 19, 2014 (UCLAFA 11/28/14)
Listen to the Regents Meeting of Nov. 20, 2014 (UCLAFA 11/27/14)
The Impact of Tuition Hikes on Undergraduate Debt (Christopher Newfield 11/26/14)
Those Cal Grants Numbers, Future Costs and More (Cloudminder 11/24/14)
University of California to Raise Tuition Despite Protests (NYT 11/20/14)
UCOP’s Failed Funding Model (Changing Universities 11/20/14)
Wild Day at the UC Regents: The Stakes of the Tuition Wars (Christopher Newfield 11/19/14)
Tuition Hikes at The University of California: A Battle for UC's Soul (LAT 11/17/14)
Rising Retirement Costs Help Drive UC Plan to Raise Tuition (SacBee 11/16/14)
Predictable (Reclaim UC 11/16/14)
UC Funding Measures the Value we Place on Public Education (SacBee 11/16/14)
Who Will Pay for UC? (Vernon, SacBee 11/15/14)
How Do You See The University of California? (Daily Cal 11/14/14)
Senate Leader Offers Alternative to UC Tuition Hike Proposal (LAT 11/13/14)
HIKING TO NOWHERE: UCOP Doubles-down on Losing Strategy (Michael Meranze 11/12/14)
The Governor and Regents Face Off on Tuition (LAT 11/12/14)
The Problems with UC's Tuition Proposal (Changing Universities 11/11/14)
UC Faces Opposition from Brown on Tuition Increase Proposal (Sac Bee 11/6/14)
UC Proposes Steady Tuition Hikes (LAT 11/6/14)
Tuition Increase Likely For 2015 (UCSD Guardian 11/2/14)

University of Missouri

2018

Administrators, Students and Activists Take Stock Three Years After 2015 Missouri Protests (IHE 9/12/18)

2016

Missouri Board Rejects Melissa Click's Appeal (IHE 3/16/16)
University of Missouri Struggles to Bridge Its Racial Divide (NYT 2/3/16)
GOP Lawmakers Want Mizzou Professor Fired (IHE 1/5/16)

2015

Missouri Lawmaker Wants To Revoke Scholarships If Athletes Protest (HuffPo 12/15/15)
The Demands (11/19/15)
The Missouri Tigers and the Hidden History of Black College Football Activists (Nation 11/12/15)
Ithaca College Students Demand School's President Step Down In Mizzou-Inspired Protest (Huff Po 11/11/15)
In Missouri, the Downfall of a Business-Minded President (Miller and Stuckey French, CHE 11/11/15)
Missouri Lawmaker Seeks To Block Students From Studying Restrictive Abortion Law (Huff Po 11/10/15)
Racial Disparities in Higher Education: an Overview (CHE 11/10/15)
3 Lessons From University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe’s Resignation (The Nation 11/9/15)
Racial tensions escalate at U of Missouri and Yale (IHE 11/9/15)
Missouri Football Players Boycott in Protest of University President (NYT 11/8/15)
What Is Going On at the University of Missouri? (CHE 11/6/15)

Contingent Faculty Issues

2019

The Revenge of the Poverty-Stricken College Professors Is Underway in Florida. And It's Big. (Splinter 6/19/19)
A Union Fight at Marquette University (Jacobin 5/21/19)
Adjuncts at Mercy, Occidental Form Unions (IHE 5/16/19)
Privilege, Guilt, Responsibility, and Contingent Labor (IHE 4/11/19)
Letter: Contingent Faculty are Marginalized (Duke Chronicle 4/5/19)
Federal Appellate Court Decision Could Make It Harder to Adjuncts to Form Unions (IHE 3/14/19)
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)
Fashioning Professionalism as Contingent Faculty (IHE 2/4/19)
The Invisible Faculty (CHE 1/2/19)

2018

Columbia Teachers College Professor’s Office Vandalized with Swastikas, Anti-Semitic Slurs (Columbia Spectator 11/29/18)
Julius Scott and Me: The Costs of Contingency (IHE 11/4/18)
New Data on Adjunct Instructors (IHE 11/2/18)
UI Researcher Looks at Changes in Labor Force at University (Press-Citizen 10/2/18)
Organizing in the Non-Community Community College (Academe Blog 8/25/18)
Summertime, and the Living’s Not Easy (for Adjunct Faculty) (Academe Blog 6/10/18)
Do Unions Help Adjuncts? (CHE 6/3/18)
How to Fix the Adjunct Crisis (CHE 5/30/18)
PSC tells Albany: ‘$7K for adjuncts!’ (Portside 5/14/18)
Adjuncts of the World, Unite! (Other Worlds 5/9/18)
U Chicago Adjuncts Approve First Union Contract (IHE 4/17/18)
Lack of Respect for Nontenured Faculty Harms Education Quality (Daily Bruin 4/10/18)
A Radical Idea About Adjuncting: Written for Those with Tenure (or on the Tenure Track) (Annemarie Pérez 4/1/18)
Historian's 'Quit Lit' Essay Rejects Notion That Leaving Higher Ed Equals Personal Failure (IHE 2/13/18)

2017

Fordham Adjuncts, Instructors Vote Union Yes (Portside 12/6/17)
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)
Growing Reliance on Part-Time Faculty Shortchanges Instructors, Students (Daily Bruin 10/31/17)
The Scary Stats on Contingency in Higher Education (Academe Blog 10/31/17)
USNWR Letter (10/21/17)
Exit the Edu-Factory – a Call for Manuscripts (The Homeless Adjunct 10/1/17)
On the AAUP, Two Distinct Tiers, and Incentivizing Institutions to Hire Part-Time Faculty (Academe Blog 9/28/17)
Facing Poverty, Academics Turn To Sex Work and Sleeping in Cars (Guardian 9/28/17)
University of California System Didn't Follow Its Own Contracting Rules, State Audit Finds (LAT 8/22/17)
After Anti-Trump Tweets, Fresno State Removes Adjunct Professor From Teaching Position (IHE 8/7/17)
BYU-Idaho Fires Adjunct for Pro-LGBT Post (IHE 7/19/17)
Some 1,500 Adjuncts at CUNY Win Three-Year Contracts (IHE 7/10/17)
A Debt (Andrew Goldstone 7/1/17)
A Postscript to “One Faculty and Academic Governance” (Academe Blog 5/30/17)
In Higher Ed, Adjuncts May Have Most to Lose if Obamacare Is Repealed (CHE 5/5/17)
Seven Years an Adjunct: Part I (Academe Blog 3/12/17)
Colorado's Part-Time Professors Brace For Another Year With No Raise (KUNC 2/28/17)
How Do I Exploit Thee? Let Me Count The Ways (Academe Blog 2/21/17)
Muscling My Way Over (Academe Blog 2/9/17)
Study Looks at Impact of Adjunct Hiring on College Spending Patterns (IHE 1/5/17)

2016

Contingent Faculty in the Age of Trump (Changing Universities 12/13/16)
2 New Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Unions (IHE 11/28/16)
Life in Academic Poverty as an Underpaid University Teacher: “They Just Don’t Want to Pay” (Salon 11/24/16)
Free (Or Fettered) to Teach at the Community College? (Academe Blog 11/12/16)
Truman Capote Award Acceptance Speech (Kevin Birmingham 10/19/16)
Life in Academic Poverty as an Underpaid University Teacher (Salon 9/24/16)
Adjuncts and Academic Freedom (Academe Blog 9/19/16)
Credentialism and Corruption: Vile College Administrators Edition (Naked Capitalism 8/25/16)
N.L.R.B. Expands Adjunct Rights to Organize at Religious Universities (Academe Blog 8/25/16)
Study Finds Gains in Faculty Diversity, But Not on the Tenure Track (IHE 8/22/16)
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)
How Much Can Unions Lift Adjuncts? CUNY Contract Fight Hinges on What’s Good Enough (CHE 7/25/16)
Adjunct Professorships Hurt Students and Educators Alike. Is it Time to Abandon Tenure? (Salon 6/30/16)
The Contingent Faculty Retirement Crisis (Sarah Kendzior 5/16/16)
Supporting NTT Faculty at the U of Illinois (Academe Blog 4/20/16)
Community College Faculty Press Governing Board for Workplace Reforms (Academe Blog 2/29/16)
Colorado Community College AAUP Fighting for “Adjunct” Faculty (Academe Blog 2/11/16)
“Not Contractually Obligated” (Academe Blog 1/28/16)
The Soul of Higher Education Under Corporatization (Assemble 4 Action 1/15/16)
Does the New Crop of First Adjunct Union Contracts Include Meaningful Gains? (IHE 1/15/16)

2015

USC Faculty Moves Ahead With Union Election Plan, Despite Warning of Increased Hostility (LAT 11/24/15)
Colleges That Shortchange Adjuncts are Ultimately Compromising Students (IHE 11/5/15)
In the Midst of Union Battle, Duquesne University Just Laid Off All but One of Its English Adjuncts (In These Times 10/28/15)
Campus Equity Week About Inequality in America's High Education System (San Diego Free Press 10/26/15)
Teaching While Poor: Adjunct Professors and the Fight for Fair Wages (The Nation 10/26/15)
UC And The New Economic Paradigm (Contra Costa Times 8/22/15)
Adjunct Faculty at Florida SouthWestern See Cuts as Full-Time Professors Get Increases (IHE 7/29/15)
ASU: Teaching as "Luxury" (IHE 6/18/15)
Essay by an Instructor Who has Taught as an Adjunct for 25 Years (IHE 5/11/15)
Study Suggests Most Part-Time Faculty Members Want Respect even More than Full-Time Work (IHE 5/6/15)
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)
Labor Conference Panel Centers on Contract Provisions for Adjuncts for Course Cancellation Payments and More (IHE 4/21/15)
Adjuncts Participate in National Day of Action for a Living Wage (IHE 4/16/15)
Casualisation Through Internal Outsourcing (Our Kingdom 4/9/15)
Union Fights Massachusetts State Colleges' Challenge to Cap on Part-Time Faculty (IHE 4/1/15)
California Part-time faculty Association Asks Legislators for “Living Wage” (Adjunct Nation 3/31/15)
Adjuncts Deem National Walkout Day a Success (IHE 2/26/15)
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)
Union Sets 'Aspirational Goal' for Adjunct Pay (IHE 2/9/15)
Adjuncts Stall U. of Memphis Attempt to Privatize Their Social Security (IHE 1/13/15)
New Congress Seeks to Redefine Full-Time Work in Health Law, Which Colleges Support, Adjuncts Don't (IHE 1/8/15)
California Colleges See Surge in Efforts to Unionize Adjunct Faculty (LAT 1/3/15)

2014

With Republican Gains, Adjuncts May Struggle to Keep Foothold on Capitol Hill (CHE 11/6/14)
Appeals Court Backs Adjunct in Case Over First Amendment (IHE 10/31/14)
Tufts Adjuncts Tout Pay and Job Security Gains in First Union Contract (IHE 10/28/14)
Essay on How Tenure-Track Faculty Members Should Treat Adjuncts (IHE 10/24/14)
Essay On the Way Many Reformers of Higher Education are Ignoring the Faculty Role (IHE 10/7/14)
National Adjunct Walkout Day Planned (IHE 10/6/14)
Adjuncts, Retirements and Sexual Harassment: A Survey of Campus HR Leaders (IHE 9/29/14)
Professors on Food Stamps: The Shocking True Story of Academia in 2014 (Salon 9/21/14)
Mills College Adjuncts Protest Changes That Were Instituted Shortly After a Union Vote (IHE 9/17/14)
A Democracy Index for Higher Education (Changing Universities 8/7/14)
Adjuncts Welcome Congress's New Interest in Their Working Conditions (CHE 7/30/14)
Adjuncts at Risk for Anxiety, Depression (IHE 7/28/14)
Colleges Assign Adjunct Hiring to a Third Party (IHE 7/21/14)
Off the Tenure Track and at the Helm: Adjuncts Now Lead Some Faculty Senates (CHE 6/2/14)
Cal State Plans Push to Hire More Full-Time Faculty (LAT 6/1/14)
Student Debt Grows Faster at Universities With Highest-Paid Leaders, Study Finds (NYT 5/18/14)
Congratulations, Class of 2014: You’re Totally Screwed (Salon 5/18/14)
Through Lincoln’s Glass Tower: Adjuncts in Peril (Tiffany Kraft 5/17/14)
The Plight of the Nonrenewed (IHE 5/16/14)
Pacific Lutheran Argues Adjuncts are part of Management to try to Deny Them Unionization (CHE 3/31/14)
'Critical' Organizing (IHE 3/25/14)
Portland State needs more tenure-track faculty: Guest opinion (The Oregonian 3/17/14)
U. of Illinois at Chicago Strike Showed Unusual Support for Contingent Faculty (CHE 2/21/14)
Seattle U. Adjuncts File for Union Election; U. of LaVerne Votes to Be Counted (IHE 2/21/14)
Complaint Halts Loyola Marymount Adjunct Union Vote (IHE 2/17/14)
The Wal-Mart-ization of Higher Education: How Young Professors are Getting Screwed (Salon 2/16/14)
Faculty on Strike (Jacobin 2/14/14)
IRS Suggests 'Reasonable' Ways of Calculating Adjuncts' Hours (CHE 2/11/14)
Questions From the NLRB (IHE 2/11/14)
Concerned with Growing Class Sizes, Teaching Assistant Union Files Complaint Against UC (SacBee 2/9/14)
New Analysis Shows Problematic Boom In Higher Ed Administrators (NECIR 2/6/14)
How One Professor’s American dream Turned into the American Nightmare (PBS 2/5/14)
Administrator Hiring Drove 28% Boom in Higher-Ed Work Force (CHE 2/5/14)
It's Not Faculty Salaries (IHE 2/5/14)
Colorado Lawmakers Take Up Sweeping Overhaul of Adjunct Working Conditions (CHE 2/4/14)
Adjuncts Gain Traction With Congressional Attention (CHE 2/3/14)
Equality for Adjuncts (IHE 1/29/14)
Congress Notices the Loss of Tenure (Changing Universities 1/28/14)
Responses on the Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty in Higher Education (Ed Workforce 1/24/14)
It's Time for Congress to Pay Attention to the Abuse of Adjunct Faculty Members (IHE 1/24/14)
Crowded Out of Ivory Tower, Adjuncts See a Life Less Lofty (NYT 1/19/14)
Austerity Premises Refuted, Governor's Budget Preaches Austerity (Christopher Newfield 1/9/14)

2013

More College Adjuncts See Strength in Union Numbers (NYT 12/3/13)
Lawmakers Told of Health-Care Law's Harmful Effect on Adjuncts and Colleges (CHE 11/15/13)
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)
Adjunct Inequities (IHE 10/15/13)
An Adjunct's Death Becomes a Rallying Cry for Many in Academe (Chronicle 9/19/13)
Union Raises for Adjuncts (IHE 7/26/13)
An Existing Just Model For Non-Tenure-Track Faculty (Bob Samuels 5/28/13)
When Adjunct Faculty Are The Tenure-Track's Untouchables (Christopher Newfield 5/19/13)
Teaching Students Who Adjuncts Are (IHE 2/6/13)
AAUP Issues New Report on Adjunct's Role in Governance and Protections for Adjuncts (IHE 1/23/13)

2012

Back To School... If They Need You (Michael Meranze 8/25/12)

2010

Is the Obama Administration Excluding Adjuncts from CC Summit? (CHE 10/1/10)
Adjuncts and Allies (IHE 8/17/10)
Making Adjuncts "Temps" (IHE 8/9/10)
EastWest U Fires All Adjuncts After Start of Union Drive (IHE 6/17/10)
New Faculty Majority Begins Push for Adjunct Unemployment Benefits (CHE 5/24/10)

2009

Adjunct Unionization on the Rise (CHE 12/15/09)

2008

Adjunct Exploitation Hurts Students!! (Christopher Newfield 12/7/08)
Adjunct World (Christopher Newfield 6/17/08)

Ongoing

Un-Hired Ed: The Growing Adjunct Crisis (Infographic)

Vergara v. California

2016

In a Major Win For Teachers Unions, California Supreme Court Lets Teacher Tenure Ruling Stand (LAT 8/23/16)
Vergara Reversed! (Academe Blog 4/14/16)

2014

New York Educators Fight Back on Attacks to Tenure (NYT 7/29/14)
Tenure Haters’ Big Delusion: Why Campbell Brown and Bo. are Wrong About Teaching (Salon 7/16/14)
The Big Money Behind California's Tenure Lawsuit (Truthout 6/19/14)
Mother Crusader Follows the Money in Vergara (Diane Ravitch 6/17/14)
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)
What Was the Evidence in the Vergara Case? Who Wins? Who Loses? (Diane Ravitch 6/11/14)
California Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional (NYT 6/10/14)
Competing Views of Teacher Tenure Are on Display in California Case (NYT 4/16/14)
As a New Lawsuit Seeks to Radically Transform Teaching Conditions, an Expert Warns of Our Nation's Education Shift (Salon 4/2/14)
David Welch: The Man Behind Vergara v. California (Capital and Main 2/20/14)
Teachers & Children Last: California Trial Showcases the Corporate War on Public Education (FDL 2/19/14)
Lawsuit Takes on California Teachers' Job Protections (LAT 1/25/14)

Program Cuts & Closures

2019

Cuts Leave Concerns for Liberal Arts at Tulsa (IHE 6/6/19)
What Really Happened at Stanford University Press: an Insider’s Account (CHE 5/10/19)
Stevens Point Abandons Controversial Plan to Cut Liberal Arts Majors Including History and Foreign Languages (IHE 4/11/19)
Stanford University Press—And All It Stands For—Is In Peril. (Save SUP 4/19)
To Help Students, Colleges Are Dropping Remedial Courses. Will That Backfire? (CHE 2/18/19)
Wright State Cancels Courses, Looks for Replacement Instructors as Faculty Strike Continues (IHE 2/6/19)
College of Theseus (Timothy Burke 1/24/19)
Colleges Lose a ‘Stunning’ 651 Foreign-Language Programs in 3 Years (CHE 1/22/19)

2018

Gender Studies Scholars Say the Field Is Coming Under Attack in Many Countries Around the Globe (IHE 12/5/18)
More Faculty Unrest at U Wisconsin Stevens Point (IHE 11/30/18)
UW Stevens Point Faculty Oppose Restructuring (Academe Blog 11/27/18)
Goucher College Says It's Eliminating Liberal Arts Programs Such as Math, Physics and Religion, in Attempt to Keep Costs Down (IHE 8/17/18)
U of Akron Cuts 80 Degree Tracks (IHE 8/16/18)
Marylhurst Professors Oppose Closure (IHE 5/21/18)
Open University Plans Major Cuts to Number of Staff and Courses (Guardian 3/21/18)
A University of Wisconsin Campus Pushes Plan to Drop 13 Majors — Including English, History and Philosophy (Wa Po 3/21/18)
Faculty Members at Wisconsin Stevens Point React to Plan to Cut 13 Majors (IHE 3/13/18)
U. of Wisconsin at Stevens Point Proposes Cutting 13 Programs, Mostly in Liberal Arts (CHE 3/5/18)
Kentucky Governor Seeks to Kill State's University Press (IHE 1/29/18)

2017

No Longer Superior? (Academe Blog 11/4/17)
Plan to Phase Out 2 Dozen Programs Stuns Faculty at Wisconsin-Superior (CHE 11/1/17)
Wisconsin-Superior Will End 9 Majors (IHE 11/1/17)
Mills College Lays Off Five Tenured Professors (Academe Blog 7/4/17)
DeVos Is Discarding College Policies That New Evidence Shows Are Effective (NYT 6/30/17)
Proposed Cuts to Humanities at SUNY Stony Brook (IHE 5/9/17)
Long Island University, Citing Need to Attract Students, Orders Faculty To Trim Core Curriculum (IHE 4/3/17)
American Authoritarianism and Academic Administration (Academe Blog 2/28/17)
Virginia Intermont's Campus Sale Begs Questions of How Colleges Close Accounts (IHE 1/5/17)

2016

UMass Labor Center Saved from Shutdown (Academe Blog 12/30/16)
The Death of ITT Tech, Part One: What Happened? (Student Activism 9/6/16)
U Mass Amherst Threatens to Close Labor Center (Talking Union 9/5/16)
How Can an Increasingly Popular Academic Review Process Seem More Meaningful to Faculty Members? (IHE 8/16/16)
Should an HBCU Founded by Black Civil War Veterans Shutter its History Department, Against the Recommendation of a Faculty Committee? (IHE 7/20/16)
Questions Raised About Cuts in Liberal Arts Programs at Western Illinois (IHE 6/14/16)
At Small Colleges, Harsh Lessons About Cash Flow (NYT 4/29/16)
UC Berkeley’s Public Health Undergraduate Major Faces Potential Elimination (Daily Cal 2/29/16)
President Wins an Award for Cutting Tenured Faculty Jobs (IHE 2/29/16)

2015

Saint Rose Cuts 23 Faculty Jobs, 27 Programs (IHE 12/14/15)
Saint Rose Faculty Informed of Cuts Friday (Times Union 12/11/15)
As Degrees Are Cut, Critics Continue to Decry Dismantling of U. of North Carolina (CHE 5/27/15)

2014

The Plight of the Public Regional College (CHE 11/19/14)
2 More Programs to Be Cut at U. of Southern Maine (CHE 10/27/14)
Is Closing of Gender Studies Center a Coincidence? (IHE 5/14/14)
Sudden Reprieve (IHE 4/14/14)
Beyond Program Closings, a More Significant Menace (Philip Lewis 2/10/14)

2013

Private Distress (IHE 12/9/13)
Wither Pennsylvania (IHE 12/2/13)
MSUM Considers Cuts in Tenured Faculty, Program Closures to Fix Projected $5 Million Deficit (In Forum 11/20/13)
Battle Over Budget Cuts (IHE 11/20/13)
Southern Oregon U. Takes Steps to Open Faculty Contract and Cut Programs (CHE 11/6/12)
Anderson U. Ends French, Theater, Philosophy Majors (IHE 11/5/13)
Area-Studies Centers Are Vital but Vulnerable (CHE 9/30/13)
Mammoth 2-Year College to Lose Accreditation (IHE 7/5/13)
Program Closures in Singapore Suggest 'Maturation' of Its Ambitions (CHE 5/24/13)
Federal Cuts to Force Closure of Fusion Project at MIT (CHE 5/20/13)
The Distress of Program Cuts (CHE 1/17/13)
New AAUP Guidelines Call for Faculty Input in Program Closures and Layoffs (CHE 1/15/13)

2010

Anticipating And Managing The Legal Risks Of Academic Program Closures (CUA 11/3/10)