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Scabbing on Our Future Selves

Joseph G. Ramsey reflects on grad students’ earlier efforts to unionize, arguing that those students who simply accepted low pay and few benefits were helping their own longed-for tenure-track jobs to disappear.
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Unmanageable Quagmire or Elegant Distinction?

Natasha Baker analyzes the potential impact of the ruling by the National Labor Relations Board on graduate assistants' right to unionize at Columbia University.

Newly Tenured ... at Bemidji State, Elizabethtown, Hendrix, Quinnipiac, St. Lawrence

The following individuals have recently been awarded tenure by their colleges and universities: Bemidji State University Mahmoud Al-Odeh, technology, art...

Taking a Backseat

North Carolina has no shortage of higher education issues, but its gubernatorial candidates haven't been talking about them -- reflecting races across the country.

The End for ITT Tech

Following a series of federal sanctions, ITT Tech on Tuesday shut down its 130 campuses, forcing a scramble for many of the for-profit's 43,000 students.
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Fundamental Trump

Aaron James's provocative new theory on Donald Trump suggests that the presidential candidate's rise makes a certain amount of sense in the context of a republic collapsing under strain, writes Scott McLemee.

Labor Day Lockout

Long Island University's Brooklyn campus, in contract fight with faculty union, tells 400 professors not to come to work and cuts them off from health insurance.

History Enrollments Drop

From 2012-13 to 2014-15, undergraduate enrollments fell by 7.6 percent, survey finds.