Editor's Note: University Business welcomes the insights and opinions of educators and administrators on all topics. If you would like to contribute a guest column, please contact Tim Goral at [email protected]. Joanne Martin was a witness to and participant in the development of what we know now as the internet. As the former chief information security […]

Sharing resources among campuses makes sense for more than economical reasons, as colleges are finding these opportunities can better serve busy students. Students at neighboring Cornell University and Ithaca College can now borrow materials from the libraries on either campus. It is a natural extension of the institutions' long-standing interlibrary loan program, says Wendy Wilcox, access services librarian at […]

Describe how higher education HR is run today and how it should be run in the future. Brad Saffer: It is very fragmented. There is a unique range of employees in higher education. Within some of these groups—tenured faculty, adjunct staff, administrators and office staff—are both union and nonunion employees. The hiring and onboarding processes […]

When adjunct faculty assembled in November 2017 at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, it wasn't for curricula conversation. Instead, after voting to form a union earlier in the year, they were rallying for better pay. The instructors called for more advancement opportunities and greater recognition of their contributions to the institution. Adjuncts made headlines […]