Findings on faculty salaries are "sobering" as inflation saps paychecks and the gap with administrator pay widens, says the AAUP's "Annual Report On The Economic Status of The Profession."
State legislatures are removing trustees, federal pressure is reshaping university priorities overnight, and donor influence over curriculum is no longer a polite concern.
Regenerative leadership can transition leaders from states of exhaustion to strategic alignment, and from reactive governance to future-oriented imagination.
College and Jewish leaders are speaking up against the Trump administration's recent efforts to cancel federal funding for higher education institutions.
Wealthy Republican- and Libertarian-backed megadonors are funding think tanks, influencing political thought and are largely behind recent attacks against university governance structures, declares a whitepaper by the American Association of University Professors.
AAUP has released a scathing report compiling interviews from current and former faculty members, students, alumni, trustees, and retired university leaders documenting what it believes is a network of institutions declining into authoritative control, intellectual and moral bankruptcy and unfettered faculty turnover.
Political interference and declining enrollment, two of higher education's most formidable trends, have already begun to impact several colleges and universities this Fall—and at one major university system, the two are coalescing.
"The higher education system is broken," said Colorado College President Song Richardson at the Department of Education's summit discussing the end of affirmative action.
The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularly in health-related matters. Less than two hours after the lecture ended, Patrick’s chief of staff had sent Sharp a link to Alonzo’s professional bio. For free speech […]
Conservative lawmakers have accelerated efforts to try to rein in what they see as liberal indoctrination on college campuses, with dozens of state bills igniting debates in recent months over academic priorities and how public universities should operate. Their efforts — which have alarmed many academics —include limiting teaching about certain topics, mandating courses, ending […]
