By Colleen Flaherty. Graduate student assistants at the University of Illinois at Chicago went on strike Tuesday over stalled contract negotiations. “Despite being highly educated professionals providing skilled labor for a multibillion-dollar institution, [campus] grad workers live on the edge of poverty,” the American Federation of Teachers-affiliated graduate student union, Graduate Employees Organization, said in a statement. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign got skewered on social media Tuesday for advertising “0 percent, [full-time equivalent], unpaid” adjunct faculty positions in social work, human behavior and social environment, and related areas. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Trigger warnings don’t help students, and they might even hurt those grappling with serious trauma. That’s the upshot of a new study on trigger warnings published in Clinical Psychological Science. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Boston U formalizes a graduate student leave policy allowing year-round stipend recipients 10 days off. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Cardiologist loses journal editorship over homophobic comments he made to a local ballet but hangs on to his faculty job. He's reportedly defended his words, saying that his personal views have no bearing on his professional capabilities. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. A new study of dedicated lactation spaces in U.S. colleges and universities, published in Breastfeeding Medicine, finds that nearly all (94 percent) of 105 institutional respondents to a survey had a least one such space. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Slapping faculty harassers on the wrists compromises the comprehensive prevention to which institutions are legally and ethically bound, according to a new paper. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. A group of student activists at Sarah Lawrence College want the tenure of a conservative professor of political science reviewed, and they want to do the reviewing. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Federal appellate court decision could make it harder for adjuncts to form unions at private institutions, especially those adjuncts who want more of a say in institutional decision making. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Missouri System this week released new guidelines for hiring non-tenure-track research and teaching professors who have served five years or more, saying that these faculty members must be given one year’s notice if they won’t be rehired. Previously, the standard was three months’ notice. More...