By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Illinois at Chicago settled for $694,000 with a former nursing student who sued it for publicly confirming that it was investigating plagiarism allegations against her, in violation of student privacy laws, The Chicago Sun Times reported. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. With its faculty members on strike for a third week, Wright State University is canceling some courses and looking for replacement adjuncts available to work immediately in scores of disciplines. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Division, investigations, faculty departures … What is going on in Hope College's music department, where students value those who have left. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Tenure is again at risk in Iowa. Some scholars say legislators should study their own history, since a case during World War II is to many experts a classic example of why protecting academic freedom matters. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Wright State University and its American Association of University Professors-affiliated faculty union reached an agreement late Sunday to end the union’s three-week strike. Details were not immediately available. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Howard University is distancing itself from an unidentified professor who apparently wrote in a syllabus that family deaths were no excuse for missing exams. The syllabus -- reported on by theDaily Mail after someone identifying herself as a student posted it on Reddit -- says, “There will be no makeup exam, quizzes or assignments” and, “Please don't bring me doctors'/death certificates, funeral obituaries I will no accept these [sic]. I also cannot make exceptions for jobs, birthdays, dates with celebrities, etc.” More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Linfield College is moving forward with a plan to cut its faculty -- apparently with or without professors' input. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Ten of the most selective institutions in the U.S. and five others in the United Kingdom and Canada still have major gender and racial gaps among senior academics, despite diversity initiatives to close them, according to a new analysis published in The Lancet. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Augsburg University in Minnesota suspended a professor for using the N-word during a class discussion about a James Baldwin book in which the word appeared -- and for sharing essays on the history of the word with students who complained to him about it. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. New research says some straightforward interventions are effective in addressing faculty workload disparities. More...