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Higher Ed Unionization Has Surged Since 2012, Bucking U.S. Labor Trends
The number of unionized grad-student workers more than doubled in just over a decade, according to a new report on higher education labor. Most of the growth came at private institutions, where faculty unionization has also spiked.
4 Arrested at U of Michigan Demonstration
Police arrested four pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Michigan Wednesday after demonstrators sought to disrupt a student activity fair...
Cornell, UAW Reach Tentative Agreement
Cornell University and the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract for the institution’s...
Supreme Court Keeps Debt-Relief Plan Blocked for Now
Nearly eight million borrowers remain in limbo following the court’s decision Wednesday.
New Presidents or Provosts: Coastal Alabama, Columbia, Minnesota-Morris, UC Merced, Wilkes CC
Jordan Cofer, currently associate provost and professor of English at Georgia College and State University, has been selected as vice...
Academic Publishers Threatened By Open-Access Expansion
Critics say a directive to make federally funded research immediately free to the public could violate authors’ copyrights. It could also disrupt the $19 billion academic publishing industry.
Pro-Palestinian Protesters Disrupt Pomona College Convocation
Roughly two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters, many wearing masks and keffiyehs, blocked access to a convocation ceremony at Pomona College Tuesday...
Utah VP on DEI Closures: ‘It’s Been a Grieving Process’
Lori McDonald, the University of Utah’s vice president of student affairs, reflects on the expedited process officials took to comply with the state’s new anti-DEI law.