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Should Faculty Be Fingerprinted?
Proposed policy at Florida Gulf Coast U. raises question of what a university is entitled to track about every professor.
Living Cheap Enough?
With student debt surpassing $1 trillion, graduate school deans discuss the implications for graduate school admissions and retention and the importance of financial literacy.
A Market Strategy
Seeing strength in numbers, adjunct faculty from across the Washington, D.C. region hope to form a metropolitan union to fight for equity in pay, benefits and more.
A Different Kind of Application Fee
Application fees are not just for prospective students anymore: some departments, generally in the fine arts, charge fees for applications for faculty positions.
Voting Rights for Adjuncts
U. of Missouri at Columbia considers becoming the latest institution where shared governance includes those off the tenure track.
A Modest Bump
Modern Language Association numbers show that job opportunities are growing slowly in English and foreign languages.
Restricted Entry Redux
First Colorado State, now Harvard. Job announcements favoring recent Ph.Ds. at these universities spur discussion and anger.
Colorado State Rewrites Job Ad That Angered Many
English department originally restricted search to those who earned Ph.D.s in 2010 or later -- a limit that many said discriminated against adjuncts and older scholars.