Washtenaw Community College’s president has put the brakes on a plan to privatize part-time faculty. We wrote about Whitworth’s plan in July/August 2010. To read that piece,…
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With full-time professors at Indiana University campuses due for a 3-percent raise next month, part-timers want in on the deal, too. And now the full-time faculty are…
“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.…
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,…
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…
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…
[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…
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…
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…
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…
