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Gains for Grad Students
Hours before a planned strike over prolonged union contract negotiations, teaching and research assistants"teaching assistants" to avoid repeating words? -sj at N.Y.U. strike a deal that they say includes historic gains. What does it mean for other graduate student workers at private institutions who wish to bargain collectively?
'Look Hot While You Fight the Patriarchy'
Feminist art history professor discusses book on how she came to study and participate in a form of bodybuilding called "figure girl" competitions.
Opinion
New Model of Tenure
Multiyear contracts and better wages go only so far in helping adjuncts, writes Michael Bérubé. And the current tenure system won't be opened up to them, so he argues that it's time for a new kind of tenure.
Discourteous Dismissal
U. of North Georgia case raises key questions: Is rudeness grounds to revoke tenure? Should professors' jobs be at risk over criteria in employee handbook that are not in faculty handbook?
Newly Tenured... at Alma, Cabrini, Clarkson, Denison, U. of North Georgia, Widener
The following individuals have recently been awarded tenure by their colleges and universities: Alma College Marcus Richter, library science Cabrini...
Change From Within
Education Department brings in Southern New Hampshire president, a prominent voice on competency-based education, to pursue its goals on innovation.
The Woman Behind #NAWD
Leah Griesmann, who came up with the idea for National Adjunct Walkout Day, isn't hiding her identity anymore. So what does she think about last week's protests, and about what's next for adjunct activism?
Union Rights at Religious College
In the first ruling following an N.L.R.B. shift, board director finds that Seattle U.'s Catholic status does not preclude adjunct collective bargaining.