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It isn’t about money. The stipends for the music department’s graduate students cost Brandeis about $300,000 a year. The university’s annual operating budget is well over a thousand times that.

A U of Missouri faculty committee report says professors have been pressured to withdraw tenure and promotion applications, or to apply to non-tenure-track positions before even submitting tenure applications.Several University of Missouri at Columbia faculty members within the last three years say leaders pressured them to withdraw their tenure and/or promotion applications, a faculty report says. A few more faculty members reported being pressured to apply for non-tenure-track positions before...

/PRNewswire/ -- Elsmere Education Inc, a certified B corp that enables universities to serve non-traditional learners, today announced that Dan Janick has been...

Prior research demonstrates insular faculty hiring practices within certain disciplines. A new study finds them across fields. What does that mean for knowledge production?

Kilmer Innovations in Packaging’s seven-member Wicked Stability team is challenging the status quo of stability testing — and they need industry support.

Analysis from the Kansas AAUP shows that theres been a decrease in tenure-track professors overall because those who leave arent being replaced. That, plus falling pay and workplace issues, may

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With Academic Freedom, Comes Academic Responsibility…Or Does It? With freedom comes accountability and those – such as academics – who seek accountability from everyone and anyone cannot refuse to have a similar requirement placed upon them. No faculty has the right to deny scrutiny of her or his work in the name of academic freedom. Photo: Pixabay Education18 hours ago There is a lot of talk about academic freedom. The index which measures this – oddly, those ardently oppos...

“Senior scholars are blamed using anecdotal evidence for some things that are as extreme as reducing national scientific advancement, for instance, simply by failing to produce research at the same levels as their colleagues,” said study co-author Anthony Olejniczak, director of research at Academic Analytics, which tracks research metrics for colleges and universities. “I hope that our study adds something of a quantitative framework to address that and shows that senior scholars do in f...

/PRNewswire/ -- What if a spreadsheet on an office computer 1,000 miles away from campus decided which professors at State U. got tenure or not? Big Data...