Following President Jason Wingard's resignation last month, more than 80% of the university's faculty union cast a vote of no confidence in their Provost and Board of Trustee chair.
The 5-4 vote is only symbolic because UA System President Donald Bobbitt has the authority to move forward without the board’s approval. Still, Bobbitt was seeking support for a deal that has divided faculty, staff and other stakeholders within Arkansas’s public colleges and universities. Opponents of the deal, including the faculty senate at the flagship […]
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.
Educators at Governors State University are on strike in a dispute over wages. It is the third Illinois university to strike in the last week. A large rally took place Tuesday on the university’s campus with many supporters, including the Chicago Teachers Union. About 280 faculty, advisors and staff, all members of the University Professionals […]
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.
These colleges may all be well over a hundred years old, but recent hirings prove there is still a first time for everything: NYU and three other colleges have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their histories.
Impassioned to fight for livable wages and health benefits, a recent strike at Temple upended the school's president and the University of Chicago's recent bid to unionize won in a landslide.
One university faculty union recently went on strike and another threatened to walk off the job before they each reached agreements with their respective schools, a signal that labor unrest in higher education will continue to surge in 2023.
