By Colleen Flaherty. Service Employees International Union withdrew its petition to form a non-tenure-track faculty union at Vanderbilt University’s College of Arts and Science, both the university and the union said this week. More...
Slight Dip in Ph.D.s Conferred
By Colleen Flaherty. Are numbers of doctorates awarded finally starting to reflect the poor academic job market? New data show decline in nonscience and engineering degrees. Women continue to make gains. More...
Former Professor Under Investigation for Research Misconduct
By Colleen Flaherty. ProPublica reported that the state’s Department of Financial and Professional Regulation subpoenaed the university seeking records on Pavuluri, who resigned from her professorship in June. More...
Dartmouth Professors Promise Change in Wake of Misconduct Case
By Colleen Flaherty. Some 90 professors at Dartmouth College have pledged to make “structural and cultural changes” following the departure earlier this year of three professors accused of sexual misconduct. More...
A Very Mixed Record on Grad Student Mental Health
By Colleen Flaherty. New studies find variation by departments, with many findings of significant rates of depression and anxiety. More...
Gender, Pay and a 'Black Box'
By Colleen Flaherty. U of Arizona is sued over alleged discrimination against female faculty members in pay and promotions. This suit follows one by female deans. More...
Wisconsin's Controversial Proposal on Program Elimination
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Wisconsin at Stout’s science education program faces elimination because it doesn’t produce enough graduates, even though Wisconsin faces a science teacher shortage, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. More...
'In Search of Curricular Coherence'
By Colleen Flaherty. “How can faculty work together to create a more coherent and intentional curriculum whose goals, pathways and outcomes are clear to students and other constituencies with a stake in the future of higher education?” With that question, the Teagle Foundation began its Curricular Coherence initiative in 2014. More...
You're Fired
By Colleen Flaherty. Professor says she's "terminating" Michigan State as her employer after it ignored her harassment complaints against an administrator and then pursued what she calls cooked-up research misconduct allegations against her. More...
Another Case of Eating While Black
By Colleen Flaherty. A professor at Virginia Commonwealth University is not teaching after he allegedly called campus security on a black adjunct professor eating breakfast in a classroom last month, NBC 12 reported. More...