The University of Washington found race was “inappropriately considered” in a recent faculty hire, it admitted last month. After the review was completed in September, the results indicated that race was inappropriately considered in the hiring of an assistant professor position in the department and violates university policy. The race-based hiring of the assistant professor […]
The American Federation of Teachers has found that more than a quarter of contingent faculty (28%) make below the federal poverty line for a family of four annually.
In 2023, the person who has secured a full-time, tenure-track position right out of graduate school, who will raise their family in one community, and who will retire from that same institution is an anomaly.
While this is the first time overall undergraduate enrollment is up post-pandemic, public and private nonprofit four-year institutions seeking freshmen students must take this data with a grain of salt, according to preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
The authors of the study, published on ScienceAdvances, believe the evidence suggests higher education's current workplace climate possesses "dysfunctional leadership" and lends itself toward harassment and discrimination.
The average tenure among the six presidents to step down or retire in this list is three and a half years, a starkly shorter timeline than the 5.9-year average ACE reported in its annual president survey.
After more than a year of organizing, Miami University faculty have officially unionized. Despite how individuals may have voted, now all faculty are represented in the union. That’s more than 800 members, including tenured and tenure-track faculty and teaching professors, clinical faculty and lecturers with longer-term contracts. Miami is the largest employer in Butler County, with […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday prohibiting Florida's public institutions from spending money on initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion, which he believes "promote(s) dangerous political and social activism."
With one state's Senate passing an end to tenure and one university coming under fire for blaming COVID on laying off at least 30 professors, here is the latest picture of the tenure chopping block.
