CUNY Contract Deal Means Big Raise for Adjuncts
By Colleen Flaherty. The City University of New York and its Professional Staff Congress faculty union reached a tentative deal on a five-year contract that increases pay for adjuncts by 71 percent, they announced Wednesday. The agreement also allows adjuncts to take more time to advise and work one on one with students and to engage in professional development. More...
St. Petersburg College Adjuncts Unionize
By Colleen Flaherty. Adjunct faculty members at St. Petersburg College in Florida voted, 269 to 187, to form a union affiliated with Service Employees International Union, they announced this week. More...
Peer Pressure
By Colleen Flaherty. Arizona State graduate student says that even after the professor who abused her left campus, her fellow students continued to harass and blame her for the disruption to their careers. More...
Gender Gap in Invited Commentaries
By Colleen Flaherty. The odds of women writing invited commentaries in medical journals are 21 percent lower than for men, even when controlling for field of expertise, seniority and publication record. The finding, published in JAMA Network Open, is based on a study of who authored these prestigious commentaries in nearly 2,500 journals over four years, through 2017. The authors say the study is significant because it sheds light on the dynamics behind a recognized disparity, and they note that the gap was largest for senior researchers. More...
Grad Enrollment: Gains at Home, Losses Abroad
By Colleen Flaherty. New graduate school enrollments continue to fall among international students, but underrepresented U.S. minority enrollments are way up. More...
Bold Move in Graduate Education
By Colleen Flaherty. In a reform aimed at reducing Ph.D. program timelines and attrition, University of Chicago will guarantee full funding to humanities and social sciences students -- in exchange for program caps. More...
‘The Gig Academy’
By Colleen Flaherty. You’ve heard of the gig economy, but what about the Gig Academy? Labor scholar Adrianna Kezar says it has to be resisted in her new book. More...
Postdocs as Mentors
By Colleen Flaherty. Study says that when it comes to everyday mentoring and training in the sciences, postdocs are the new PIs. More...
Professor Suspended Over Prior Termination
By Colleen Flaherty. Stockton University suspended a visiting professor of physics who was accused of harassment and retaliation at his former institution, Lafayette College, NJ.com reported. More...
Twitter's Gender Imbalance
By Colleen Flaherty. Female academics have about half the followers of men on Twitter and wield otherwise diminished influence there, according to a new study. The analysis pertains to medicine, but women across fields say the findings ring true. More...
