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August 24 is America’s ‘sickest day of the year,’ study says
Are you feeling sick today? Get in line. A recent study deemed Aug. 24 the “sickest day of the year,”…
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Pennsylvania lawmaker to introduce 4-day workweek bill with no pay reduction
Workers at many Pennsylvania businesses could be looking at a four-day workweek, as a state legislator says she will introduce a bill…
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I’m a boss who fires anyone without six-pack abs — I have high standards
They thought this alleged policy was ab-ominable ridiculous. Get shredded or he’ll shred up your contract: An Arizona sales trainer…
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Adjuncts Making $100K? Sure, in the Magical World of ZipRecruiter
Adjuncting is a job where the pros can be easily outweighed by the cons: the heavy workload, the student-loan debt,…
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Opinion | Student Teaching Evaluations Are Racist, Sexist, and Often Useless
In the fall of 2019, while compiling my files for promotion, I spent some time looking over my teaching evaluations…
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An Outspoken Professor Criticized His University and His Field. Now He’s Suing for Discrimination.
A longtime law professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder who is also a prolific critic of legal education…
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Opinion | Where Does Your Department Stand on Abortion? Antiracism? Immigration?
Where does your English department stand on abortion rights? What does the School of Public Health think about the occupation…
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Constant feedback in the workplace helps everyone up their game
Although Carrie Winans, vice president at global strategic communications firm Hill+Knowlton Strategies, has a semiannual performance review with her Chicago-based…
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Striking Faculty and Grad Students Won Big Pay Raises This Academic Year
Higher-ed unions had their most successful academic year in recent memory. A series of strikes led to changes that graduate…
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The Campus Job Talk From Hell
In January 2007, I was desperate. After completing my Ph.D., I’d managed to stave off academic annihilation by getting a…
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Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of Full-Time Faculty Members at More Than 3,300 Institutions
The sortable table below shows the percentages of full-time faculty members who were members of specific racial and ethnic groups…
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Opinion | Against Higher Ed’s Happy Talk
Recently, while rereading Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (2009), I had an…
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Statehouses’ Targeting of Diversity and Tenure Is Starting to Scare Away Faculty Job Candidates
Recently proposed and passed legislation that targets tenure and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is having a chilling effect on…
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Administrators’ Hysterical Response to Campus Controversy
As art history professors, we have experienced our share of student responses to artworks like the one testified to by…
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Emporia State Violated Key Principles in Firing 30 Professors, AAUP Says
Emporia State University, in Kansas, denied professors academic due process and violated principles of academic freedom and shared governance in…
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How Much Has Faculty Pay Changed Over Time?
Here’s a sector-by-sector look at changes in average annual pay for faculty members at institutions of higher education from 2012-13…
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They Put Their Pronouns in Their Email Signatures. Then the University Dismissed Them.
Two residence-life staff members at a small religious institution have been terminated after they refused to remove their pronouns from…
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Boss shares toxic sign urging staff not to ‘make friends at work’
A boss has issued a stinging memo to staff instructing them not to make friends with colleagues during work hours,…
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Who Leads America’s DEI Offices? Here Are Their Stories.
At the annual conference of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education in Baltimore last week, faculty members,…
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Turnover Is Bad Across Higher Ed. It’s Even Worse in Admissions.
Higher education’s perennial problem with turnover has been well-documented. But it’s even more acute — and comes with higher stakes…
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‘Shark Tank’ star Barbara Corcoran blasted for saying she loves to fire people
They’re fin-ished. Investor and “Shark Tank” star Barbara Corcoran, 74, is under fire for a resurfaced clip showing her declaring…
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Rutgers’ President Threatened to Take Striking Instructors to Court. Then He Walked It Back.
Thousands of instructors at Rutgers University joined a national surge in union activity on Monday, becoming the fifth currently active…
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Dad blasted for marrying woman who looks ‘exactly like his daughter’
Like mother like… stepdaughter? A man who is 16 years older than his wife is being accused by trolls of…
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Does Stanford Have More Administrators Than Undergrads?
In an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos criticized administrative…
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What Higher Ed’s Paid Parental-Leave Policies Look Like
As a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh, Claire B. Guth took her comprehensive exams when she was 38…
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