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Higher Ed Unionization Has Surged Since 2012, Bucking U.S. Labor Trends
The number of unionized grad-student workers more than doubled in just over a decade, according to a new report on higher education labor. Most of the growth came at private institutions, where faculty unionization has also spiked.
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‘Red Wedding’: Storied Stanford Creative Writing Program Laying Off Lecturers
The university says creative writing faculty recommended returning its Jones Lectureships to their “original intent” as short-term teaching appointments for talented writers. A lecturer of 20 years said he thinks there’s a “peasants and lords issue” in the program.
Wisconsin Regents Vote to Lay Off Dozens of Tenured Faculty
In AAU Quest, LSU Raises Tenure Bar for Librarians
New College of Florida Is Dumping Books—and Losing Professors
The conservative transformation of the institution continues, with gender studies texts being tossed and the faculty chair, plus other professors, taking leave.
Judge Tosses Professors’ Suit Against Indiana’s ‘Intellectual Diversity’ Law
Indiana Argues Professors Lack First Amendment Rights in Public Classrooms
Defending a new law requiring “intellectual diversity” from professors, the Indiana attorney general echoes Florida and asserts that “curriculum of a public university is government speech.”
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A Decade After Scott Walker’s Bill, U of Wisconsin May See First Mass Layoff of Tenured Faculty
The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s proposal to ax its entire College of General Studies has faculty members wondering: What precedent will be set by the university actually using the power Republicans gave it?