By Colleen Flaherty. Salaries for full-time, continuing faculty increased by 3.4 percent this year and 2.7 percent adjusted for inflation, according to the American Association of University Professors’ Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession. That’s down slightly from 2.9 percent last year, adjusted for inflation, when that figure exceeded 2 percent for the first time since the recession. Read more...

By Josh Logue. New play about campus shootings offers little in the way of answers, but aims to spark conversation. Read more...

By Ellen Wexler. At an American Educational Research Association panel, academics discuss the rewards -- and risks -- of using social media to advance public scholarship. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. Highly respected professors face intimidation, threats and smear campaigns for deviating from the views of the Hindu right. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Online courses have for years driven enrollment growth at community colleges, but as more students take their chances in the job market, institutions face new challenges to retain them, a new study found. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. New study suggests colleges with female presidents are more likely than other institutions to have a greater share of humanities professors who are women. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. Papers at AERA meeting analyze the adjunct instructor workforce, research output at liberal arts colleges and the impact of financial aid programs aimed at making community college free. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Many remember James Meredith, the first black person to enroll at the University of Mississippi. But Lloyd Gaines is not a name widely known or taught, though he was the plaintiff in a suit that led to a 1938 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that Missouri had to provide, in the state, an opportunity for black students to go to law school. Until then, Missouri had a policy of paying for black students like Gaines to attend law school out of state, rather than at the all-white University of Missouri law school. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. An inadequate high school education can get expensive for students when they need to take remedial courses in college, according to a new report. Read more...

By Ellen Wexler. Over the last few years, universities started appointing two deans to lead their law schools temporarily. Now, a few are going that route with permanent appointments. Read more...