By Colleen Flaherty. Non-tenure-track professors at Mercy and Occidental Colleges voted to form unions affiliated with Service Employees International Union, they announced this week. At Mercy, where there were 831 eligible adjunct voters, 406 voted for a union and 100 voted no, according to information from SEIU. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Montana State University said Wednesday that it is transferring its cell biology and neuroscience programs to the department of microbiology and immunology, confirming the suspicions of neuroscience professors who say their department has been targeted by administrators who don’t value their research programs. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Webster U is looking into how it handled a harassment complaint against a game design instructor that a student says went unresolved. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. A professor's future at the University of Mississippi was uncertain for several hours Thursday as the statewide governing board debated his social media record before finally granting him tenure. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. WPI wants associate professors to understand what's possible, and offer options that go beyond traditional research. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Provisions in research funding agreements between Coca-Cola and five public institutions gave the company the right to review the research in advance and control over study data, disclosure of results and acknowledgement of funding. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Harvard revokes emeritus status and retirement privileges from professor who was found to have harassed women for decades. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. What a difference preparation makes when it comes to doing research in Arctic-level air-conditioned academic libraries (or ones that are otherwise freezing -- or not air-conditioned at all). More...
By Ashley A. Smith. Despite calls to step down, the board president of a two-year college in Illinois is refusing to resign after posting several Islamophobic and anti-immigrant memes on social media. More...
By Ashley A. Smith. The largest technical college in Kansas is paying relocation and housing costs for students to move to the area, many from other states, to deal with a work-force shortage in the local aviation industry. More...
/https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
