By Colleen Flaherty. Gender equity initiatives have cut the salary gap between male and female faculty members at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to 1.9 percent from 2.6 percent in 2005, but the residual difference still means significantly less wealth for women over a lifetime, according to a new study in JAMA Network Open.Read it here. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. U of Illinois Faculty Senate is considering what to do about students who want to disrupt classes over political disagreements with professor. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. The faculty job market in history stabilized in 2017-18 after several years of steep declines, according to new data from the American Historical Association. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Small-college leaders share how their institutions have attempted to ward off enrollment crises before they happen. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. The Wright State University faculty strike will continue today, as Ohio’s State Employee Relations Board declared the collective action authorized Sunday during an emergency hearing on the university’s unfair labor practice charge against the union. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. A new Gallup and Strada Education Network study of 32,000 current undergraduates at 43 randomly selected institutions found that the key college experience of having support from faculty mentors does not vary much by gender or race, but does vary significantly by broad field of study. More...

By Doug Lederman. Survey of public college provosts finds many forms of training and support for those who teach online is lacking, even as institutions' expectations grow. More...

By Doug Lederman. The conference on community college transformation features discussions of bringing about systemic change, the promise of open education and the right and wrong ways to get faculty buy-in. More...

By Doug Lederman. A new paper explores the shifting landscape in which new forms of credentials (shorter, offered by many types of providers) and assessments (built on mastery of competencies) are emerging to serve a needy audience of what it calls "working learners" and "learning workers." More...

By Doug Lederman. Today's teenagers appear likely to reinforce, rather than reverse, the widening gender gap in four-year college enrollment, a survey by Pew Research Center finds. More...