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NSF Receives Reports of 16 Cases of Alleged Harassment by Grantees in First Year of New Rules
Harassment is a serious and growing problem at U.S. universities. The latest survey by the Association of American Universities, a consortium of 62 leading research institutions, found that 13% of students reported being the target of…
Americans Are Having Fewer Kids. How Will That Impact Higher Education & Adjunct Faculty?
by Nathan Grawe Demographic change is a constant force. College campuses are often at the forefront of the shifting composition of each generation. For example, non-Hispanic whites are not projected to become a minority of the U.S.…
Adjuncts Sharing Salary Data: Crowdsourced Transparency Takes Off
by Steve Dubb Earlier this year, NPQ wrote about a group of employees at museums and art nonprofits who created an online spreadsheet to share salary information to call attention to their low wages. Now, adjunct college faculty are doing…
New Study: The Rise of the Temporary Workforce in Science Research
The time over which half of the cohort has left the field has shortened from 35 years in the 1960s to only 5 years in the 2010s. In addition, researchers found a rapid rise (from 25 to 60% since the 1960s) of a group of scientists who spend…
New Research—Stop Thinking Student-Athletes Have Time For Your Class
On average, the players spend more than 25 hours on sports-related activities other than games, such as practice, workouts, general team meetings, film sessions and travel. On the other hand, the player spend less than eight hours on…
New Study: Adjuncts’ Students More Likely to Drop Courses & Get Lower Grades
Understanding the relative impacts of part-time adjuncts in community colleges is highly policy-relevant, partly because community colleges rely on part-time faculty heavily and partly because community colleges assume a critical role in…
Here’s Why Your College Students are Less Able to Think Critically
Most of us spend much more time with digital media than we did a decade ago. But today’s teens have come of age with smartphones in their pockets. Compared to teens a couple of decades ago, the way they interact with traditional media like…
New Study: Most Americans Say Higher Ed is Heading in the Wrong Direction
About six-in-ten Americans (61%) say the higher education system in the United States is going in the wrong direction, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. But Republicans and Democrats differ over why they think this is the case.
New Study: Republicans, Democrats Disagree About the Point of Higher Education
On many issues, Republicans and Democrats are in agreement. But on at least one point—how and why higher education should be funded—a big gulf exists between the two parties.
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Supreme Court Decision Could End Unions' Right to Force Adjunct Non-Members to Pay Dues
Janus vs. AFSCME could end rule that adjuncts must pay dues to unions they've chosen not to join.
