Career Development

For the most part, institutions are resuming the faculty and staff retirement benefits they cut or stopped during the pandemic. Fights over the future of those benefits are being waged on some campuses.

Professor pay declined this year for the first time since it recovered -- somewhat -- from the Great Recession. Salary data don't include professors who were laid off.

Women make up just 24 percent of research universities' top earners, according to a new report urging action on pay parity in academe. Women of color are just 2 percent.

Women in economics get asked significantly more questions than men when presenting -- mostly by men. Researchers say this is part of deeper gender issues within the field.

A longtime professor wants to retire. Her university says she has to drop her pay-based gender discrimination suit first.

Political science association apologizes for its "both sides" statement on the Capitol mobbing.

Provision buried in executive order the president signed Tuesday directed officials to end exchange program in response to Beijing's tightening control over the region.

Colleges and universities are increasingly suspending or trimming employee retirement plan contributions to battle budget deficits.