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Section: Faculty & Staff
Faculty & Staff
Vassar to Pay $5 Million to Settle Women Professors’ Pay Bias Claims
The proposed settlement would compensate roughly 84 women full professors and require the college to conduct annual pay audits over the next three years.
July 31, 2026
Sports
Women Leaders Continue to Rise in HBCU Athletics
At a time when the pressure is high in intercollegiate athletics, female leaders are flourishing at HBCUs.
July 20, 2026
Views
Let’s Honor Women Staff in Higher Education by Fixing the Systems That Harm Them
A new study on trauma and imposter phenomenon among women staff in higher education makes clear that institutional change—not individual resilience—is what’s urgently needed.
July 14, 2026
Views
Disbanding Faculty Senates Does Not Negate the Speech Rights of Public University Professors
New efforts to silence faculty governance are colliding with a legal reality: public university employees still have protected speech rights outside their official duties.
July 8, 2026
Faculty & Staff
Community Colleges Lean on Adjuncts While California Courts Force a Reckoning
California courts are challenging the long-standing adjunct faculty model, raising urgent questions about unpaid labor, student success, and the true cost of community college instruction.
June 30, 2026
Faculty & Staff
EEOC Plan Signals Tougher Review of Campus Diversity Efforts
The agency’s latest enforcement plan prioritizes investigations into what it calls DEI-related discrimination, raising compliance questions for institutions.
June 23, 2026
Opinion
What Have You Done For Us Lately? A Case Study in Public Impact.
When an op-ed on reparations reached classrooms and influenced national medical policy, it underscored a growing reality for higher education: the most consequential scholarship may be the work that changes communities, not just academic résumés.
June 15, 2026
Institutions
AAUP Report: Faculty Pay Fell Behind Inflation as Salary Gaps Persist
A new AAUP report says full-time faculty salaries effectively declined despite nominal raises, with women still earning substantially less than men and pay disparities varying widely by rank and institution type.
June 11, 2026
Institutions
North Carolina’s private colleges claim $38B economic role as financial pressures mount
The state’s independent colleges remain major workforce and economic engines, but recent enrollment losses and financial stress show a more complicated outlook.
June 10, 2026
Faculty & Staff
Hundreds of Professors Sign Letter Calling for University of California to Reinstate SAT/ACT Math Requirement
Math and science professors have signed an online letter that calls for the University of California system to reinstate the SAT/ACT math requirement in order to reverse a “widening divergence” in math preparation.
May 29, 2026
Leadership & Policy
The Blueprint for Banning DEI: How Texas Is Using Department Consolidation to Reshape Higher Ed
Some faculty members say it is a politically-motivated, top-down defunding of teaching and research that centers issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship.
May 27, 2026
Faculty & Staff
Dr. Jennifer Jolley Connects Undergrads to Social Justice Themes Through Opera
Dr. Jennifer Jolley describes herself as a composer, conductor and professor. An associate professor and department chair in the School of the Arts and Humanities in the Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre & Dance at Lehman College in New York, she believes that music enhances the higher education experience regardless of a student’s major or field of study.
May 19, 2026
Faculty & Staff
The Rise of 'Shadow Faculty'
A wave of collective bargaining is reshaping American higher education, but are workers winning better pay at the cost of the full-time jobs they're trying to protect?
May 1, 2026
Faculty & Staff
How St. John’s University Became the Front Line for Regional Faculty Power
As the newly formed Metro New York Coalition for Higher Ed prepares for a major May 1 demonstration at Madison Square Garden, the battle at St. John’s University has evolved into a symbol of collective resistance against administrative overreach, spwaning a bigger "hands-off higher ed" movement.
April 30, 2026
Faculty & Staff
CUPA-HR Report: Women Administrators Face Growing Pay Disparities as They Age
A new report from CUPA-HR found women administrators over 48 are paid 82 cents on the dollar compared to white men in the field, whereas women 48 and under are paid 97 cents for every dollar paid to their white male peers.
April 28, 2026
Institutions
UW-Madison to Launch Standalone College of Computing and AI
The move represents the first time in 43 years that the university has established a new academic division.
April 28, 2026
African-American
Why Culturally Sustaining Practices Must Be Part of the Institutional Core
One AABHE presenter said institutional leaders must move beyond access to focus on belonging and equity, even in the current political climate.
April 14, 2026
Leadership & Policy
Faculty Unions Challenge Vermont State University's Spending Priorities
A March 2026 letter from faculty and staff union leaders notes that while their full-time staff positions have decreased by 115 positions and unionized faculty positions have decreased by 70 positions, non-union, full-time upper-level administrative positions have grown by 41 percent, or 38 positions.
April 14, 2026
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