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2 New Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Unions
Adjunct faculty members at Hillsborough Community College in Florida voted 339 to 189 to form a union affiliated with Service...
Wayne State Police Officer Shot and Killed
Wayne State University announced that Collin Rose (right), one of the university's police officers, died from gunshot wounds he received...
Nominate a Scholarly Book for #IHEreaderschoice
Help select the top university press book of 2016 that would make a good holiday gift for someone in academe...
John Ebersole, Former Excelsior President, Dies
John F. Ebersole (at right), until recently president of Excelsior College, died last week, at the age of 72. He...
Opinion
Teaching in a Time of Trump
The distress that students now feel over the election of Trump runs deeper than fear of what the administration plans to do, argues Mark Bauerlein. It signifies the fall of the diversity-sensitive propriety that has guided much of their lives.
Canadian Literary Figures Divide Over Ex-Professor
Canadian authors and academics are dividing over the case of Steven Galloway (right), an acclaimed novelist who was until last...
'Feast or Famine' for Humanities Ph.D.s
Some doctorate earners emerge with high levels of debt, while a growing number have none. For a plurality, teaching assistantships are top source of revenue, but that's not the case for most other disciplines.
Jewish Professors Targeted
Two Jewish professors on different campuses are harassed with anti-Semitic threats -- at a time when swastikas have appeared at a number of institutions.