By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Denver must pay a group of female law professors $2.66 million and make significant changes to its law faculty compensation policies, based on a settlement approved Thursday. More...
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Women and Underrepresented Minorities Less Likely to Be Last Authors
By Colleen Flaherty. Women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minority scholars are less likely than other groups to be last authors, an indicator of career independence, says a new paper in American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings. More...
Closing the Pay Gap
St. Kate's to Cut 50 Faculty and Staff Jobs
By Colleen Flaherty. St. Catherine University in Minnesota plans to cut about 50 faculty and staff members due to recent changes in enrollments and programs, the Star-Tribune reported. More...
System Crash
By Colleen Flaherty. Computer science students on a number of campuses complain that their departments can't meet demand. Their professors are also stressed. But experts say there is no clear fix for nationwide shortage of computer science faculty. More...
Political Pressure in Nebraska
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Nebraska at Lincoln bowed, at least to some degree, to political pressure when it permanently removed a lecturer in English from the classroom last fall. In so doing, and in denying her the dismissal hearing to which she was entitled by campus policy, Nebraska may have violated her academic freedom. More...
Appeals Court Sides with Cornell in Tenure Dispute
By Colleen Flaherty. A New York State appellate court sided with Cornell University Thursday in a tenure dispute case, overturning a lower court’s 2016 decision ordering a new tenure review for Mukund Vengalattore, assistant professor of physics. More...
U of Washington Postdocs Form Union
By Colleen Flaherty. Postdoctoral researchers at the University of Washington voted to form a union affiliated with United Auto Workers, they announced Friday. More than 700 of the campus’s 1,100 postdocs participated in the election, with 89 percent of unchallenged ballots being cast in favor of unionization, according to the union. More...
