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Professor of Education Pamela Eddy will be William & Mary’s inaugural associate provost for faculty affairs and development, Provost Peggy Agouris announced today.

Administrators, full-time faculty and Board members said officials should work to improve communication and change administrative hiring policies.

The feedback outlines the need for clarity on GW's operations and better communication and collaboration between officials and GW community members.

Northwestern’s Faculty Senate debated amending its bylaws Wednesday to not describe the Senate’s recommendations to administration as “nonbinding” and change other aspects of the bylaws, one of which was to specify the amount of faculty that need to be present at Faculty Assembly. While the former passed, the latter did not.  The first topic of...

In December 2020, Northwestern’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors  made public a report that critiques the University administration’s handling of the pandemic. Among the recommendations our chapter made were that administrative support must be rehired, that academic units be properly supported across the University, that retirement funds should be restored to faculty...

By DONOVAN HARRELL The University of Pittsburgh’s energy consumption is on track to meet the sustainability goal of a 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Pitt’s Director of Sustainability Aurora Sharrard revealed the fiscal year 2020 Greenhouse Gas Inventory to Faculty Assembly members on Jan. 19. The inventory shows, she said, that the University is on

Over a decade ago, a committee from the previous faculty governing body was charged with establishing a more effective governance system for Northwestern faculty. Two bodies were established: the Faculty Assembly encompassing the entire faculty, and the Faculty Senate with membership elected from the departments, non-tenure eligible faculty and librarians.   Since its founding, the Faculty...

Professors seek a united faculty voice against legislative incursions into the curriculum with respect to the teaching of race.

Pete Gallego’s relatively short tenure as president of Sul Ross University was mired in conflict — from the campus to the Texas Capitol

Universities have developed a bogus method of “prioritization” that downgrades the humanities.