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Our country must appreciate the value of postdoctoral education and do more to ensure that it flourishes, writes David Silbersweig.
Broken Promises?
At San Francisco State, professors allege a pattern of ignoring promises made to recruit or retain faculty members.
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Who Bears the Burden of Risk?
Personal liability insurance implicitly asserts that individual instructors should be treated as isolated defendants in workplace matters, write Caley Horan and Andy Urban.
'The Uberfication of the University'
Author discusses new book on the relationship between the "sharing economy" and the erosion of faculty rights.
Not Just 'Musical Chairs'
Beyond well-funded individual campus initiatives aimed at increasing the number of underrepresented minority faculty members, experts urge collaboration across institutions and within disciplines.
For Your Anti-Union Information
Crop of university 'anti-union' university websites sparks criticism from proponents of graduate assistant unions.
The Sky Isn't Falling
Critics of this week's NLRB decision in favor of graduate student unions at private institutions say it could turn graduate education upside down. But that hasn't happened on a campus with one of country's oldest public-sector graduate employee unions.
NLRB: Graduate Students at Private Universities May Unionize
Federal labor board overturns ruling that denied collective bargaining rights. On many campuses, grad students vow to organize. Many higher ed leaders and Republicans in Congress criticize ruling.