Faculty Issues

Under a new initiative from MIT Press, early purchasing commitments from a subset of libraries will make the spring 2022 slate of monographs and edited collections open access.

Colleges employed 4 percent fewer people in fall 2020 than they did pre-pandemic, U.S. data show. Community colleges, service workers and part-time employees suffered disproportionately.

How a dispute over pandemic-era funding for graduate education is putting the entire department’s future at risk.

By the end of Thursday, the committee had voted on most of the issues up for regulation, but so far members have only agreed on proposed regulatory language for two of them.

Student workers halted many campus operations Wednesday as part of a weeks-long strike for a first contract. Professors worry about fallout for undergraduates as the semester nears an end, and many blame the university, not the strikers.

University of North Carolina will create an internal unit to build and manage online programs from the system’s 17 campuses for learners largely ignored by many universities.

Unionized faculty members in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University allege that proposed changes are intended to force them out and replace them with nonunionized adjuncts.

Why is Marian University axing its political science program and cutting its only tenured expert in U.S. government and politics?