The Kent State University Faculty Senate voted against supporting bills that would allow part-time faculty, including graduate and teaching assistants, the right to collective bargaining Monday. The…
By Stanley Fish Last week, as I was preparing a presentation for still another conference on the fate of the liberal arts in our time, two…
The Office of Development and College Relations and Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty have been working together for slightly over a year to…
Full-time faculty at Grand Rapids Community College are speaking out against the school’s rapid growth and the president’s management and hiring strategy, specifically that part-time faculty now…
By Dave Bakke It wasn’t being gay that cost Laine Tadlock her job in administration at Benedictine University’s Springfield campus. Her orientation was no secret to her…
By Al Kaltman Unheralded and virtually unnoticed, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been pushing its way into the halls of America’s universities and colleges. Not…
By Stephen Burd By any measure, November 2nd was a great day for the for-profit higher education industry. With the Republicans regaining control of the House of…
By Tamar Lewin Stanley H. Kaplan started his tutoring business in the basement of his parents’ Brooklyn home in 1938. As standardized tests became a bigger fixture…
By P.D. Lesko Last week, we launched our Facebook page and linked all of our Nation Blogs to Twitter. Whew! It's fun to watch the number of…
By Ron Tinsley Innovation in technology continues to grow exponentially in the U.S. and across the globe. Laptops are getting faster and cheaper (except Mac Notebooks) and…
