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Rutgers and Union Leaders Reach Tentative Agreement

by Matt Fazelpoor The labor dispute between unions representing 9,000 educators, researchers, clinicians, and counselors and Rutgers University moved a step closer to resolution April 30 as union leadership approved tentative agreements after nearly a year of negotiations. Representatives of the three unions, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, the Rutgers...

UC Faculty Strike Brought Huge Pay Raise, Now Administrators Are Cutting Grad Student Jobs to Pay For It

by Renae Cassimeda Two months after the six-week strike of 48,000 academic workers in the University of California system was prematurely shut down by the UAW bureaucracy, academic workers and the public.

Should Ph.D. Studentships Be Unfunded?

by Josh Weinberg, Daily Nous Under what conditions, if any, should a graduate program in philosophy admit PhD students for whom it cannot provide funding? Visit the Daily Nous to.

Faculty, Including Adjuncts, at Univ. of Kansas Looking to Unionize

by Abdullah Al-Awhad Low salaries, lack of communication between the administration and faculty, and tensions about the Kansas Board of Regents’ regulations of tenured faculty are the reasons the United Academics of the University of Kansas, a prospective union, cited for its emergence. Under the...

600 Non-Tenured Instructors at Fordham U Threaten to Strike

More than 600 adjuncts and non-tenure track faculty are preparing to strike at the end of the month to demand more from the Jesuit institution with a billion-dollar endowment. by.

To Be included in Union, FT Non-Tenured Faculty Petition State Employment Relations Board

by Luke Macy On Dec. 12 and 13, Miami University administrators and faculty met for a hearing with the State Employment Relations Board in Columbus to determine who could be included in.

Community Colleges Hiring Fewer Staff, Including Adjuncts

by Stephanie Hughs In fall 2021, the academic workforce at community colleges in the U.S. reached its lowest point in nearly two decades, according to a new analysis of federal data out Wednesday from the American Association of University Professors. The last two years have seen particularly...

Post-Strike UC Contract Could Impact Faculty Collective Bargaining Nationwide

by Elizabeth Ruiz College faculty and researchers across the nation could be seeing a big change in the near future due to the largest higher education strike in U.S. history..

Adjuncts at American U Reach Settlement After Weeklong Strike

by Nora Scully, the Georgetown Voice “No contract, no peace!” rang throughout the main campus of American University (AU) on Aug. 26. Unionized AU faculty and staff have been on.

College Students are Increasingly Identifying Beyond “She” and “He”

by Genny Beemyn When students today fill out their college applications, they are not just identifying as “she” or “he.” More than 3% of incoming college students use a different set of pronouns. That’s according to my analysis of the more than 1.2 million applications submitted for...

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