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Adjuncts Win Union Vote at East-West U.
Adjunct faculty members at East-West University, in Chicago, voted to unionize and to be represented by a chapter of the...
NYU Will Team Up With U. of the People
New York University is teaming up with the University of the People, a young, unaccredited online institution in which most...
Women Lag on NIH Renewal Rates
There are relatively few differences in the success rates of women and men who apply for grants from the National...
Academic Minute: Fake Trees and Carbon Capture
In today’s Academic Minute, Klaus Lackner of Columbia University’s Earth Institute describes his efforts to combat global warming by creating...
Pfizer Plans $100 Million Partnership with Mass. Medical Researchers
Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday that it would spend up to $100 million over five years to create a series of...
AAUP President Urges Faculty to Organize to 'Conquer Fear'
With many professors at public universities battling efforts in states nationwide to strip faculty of their collective bargaining rights or...
The (Revised) Case Study
When Cal State Bakersfield put developmental math online and minimized the role of faculty, the program bombed. Changes have restored performance, but not faculty jobs.
Ex-Inmate's Financial Aid Scam
A woman who was a prisoner in South Carolina has pleaded guilty to a fraud scheme in which she submitted...