Faculty

These 10 college towns are the most expensive in the nation. The implications are huge

Expensive college towns drive tension and inequity between students, faculty and school leadership. But one state in particular is the main culprit.

40% of business leaders believe graduates aren’t prepared to work. Are they right?

About a fifth of business leaders believe educators are to blame. Ithaca College professor Dr. Diane Gayeski, however, believes they can't be more wrong.

Texas A&M’s botched faculty hiring reaches top of the ladder, claims president’s job

"We don't exhibit a very good image of competence to the outside world," said materials science and engineering professor Raymundo Arroyave in a special Faculty Senate meeting.

“Overlooked and underbudgeted”: Why the time to improve faculty affairs is now

Revamping how leaders approach faculty affairs is essential for an institution's vitality in the face of political hostility, decline in spending power and poor public perception.

Here are 4 ways AI is already impacting higher education

As the implementations of AI continue to stun university officials, here are some of the most prominent facets of higher education being both positively and negatively affected by the game-changing technology.

How does your school’s faculty salary stack up compared to those at other schools across country?

A new report from the National Education Association ranks all 50 states' average faculty salaries and answers a $15,000 question causing pay gaps between colleagues of different institutions.

Speech-related punishment against scholars in last 3 years nearly equals last 20

Political, race-related and gender-related expression surrounding major national headlines has catalyzed a surge of sanction attempts from 2016 onward. Almost two-thirds of sanction attempts resulted in sanction, including 225 terminations.

Not just the students: Faculty union joins 9,000-worker Rutgers strike

Three unions at the University of Rutgers comprising faculty, adjunct faculty and graduate student workers flooded Rutgers' three campuses to commence the first strike in the 257-year-old school's history.

Tenured faculty in steady decline while part-time and graduate workers rise, per report

Over the past three decades, the U.S. academic workforce is steadily relying more on part-time and full-time non-tenure track faculty, as well as graduate student workers with independent teaching responsibilities, according to report from AAUP.

President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

Several presidents who decided to hang up their cleats and move on were lauded for their accomplishments, while others... not so much.

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