Some months back, Science Careers focused on the challenges facing dual-career academic couples looking for work. On Wednesday, the American Association of University Professors issued a report,…
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“The past four decades have seen a failure of the social contract in faculty employment,” states a new report issued by the American Association of University Professors.…
After a yearlong battle, adjunct faculty has gained the right to bargain with the Central Michigan University administration. Members of the Union of Teaching Faculty voted by…
by Dorit Sasson Over the past year I’ve received dozens of emails from instructors asking me for advice on teaching ESL students in their college reading courses.…
Lecturers at the University of Michigan are being urged by their union leaders to sign a tentative contract reached with administrators following a months-long process called “long…
An ambitious effort to establish a Jewish studies program of national prominence at the University at Buffalo has run into some unexpected growing pains after the firing…
Washtenaw Community College President Larry Whitworth has been campaigning for a change in Lansing that would allow new community college employees to opt out of the state’s…
[private] Adjunct faculty rarely make the crossover to department heads, but one in the College of Agriculture is poised to do just that. Joseph Anderson, adjunct professor…
The University of Illinois on Thursday said it had offered a job to an instructor who was fired over a complaint that he engaged in hate speech…
New York University was recently found to be in violation of its adjunct professor union contract. The union’s contract requires NYU to compensate adjunct professors who are…
