It’s 9 p.m. in London, and Gita Selli is still at her computer, finishing up one last Zoom call with her team in the U.S. Her son has…
Read more The American Dream on European time: How late-night remote workers are cashing in on big U.S. salariesRoyal Bank of Canada said it has proof that its former chief financial officer engaged in an intimate relationship with a colleague that she failed to disclose, citing…
Read more Fired CFO’s texts revealed a 10-year affair that led to higher pay and promotions, company saysIf you work an office job, perhaps it’s happened to you. You didn’t get enough sleep last night. You’ve powered through the morning, yet your to-do list stretches…
Read more 1 in 3 employees—including in-office workers—regularly nap on the clock, survey says. Here’s who catches the most Z’s on the job and whyA longtime law professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder who is also a prolific critic of legal education is suing the institution, saying it is discriminating…
Read more An Outspoken Professor Criticized His University and His Field. Now He’s Suing for Discrimination.Higher-ed unions had their most active academic year in recent memory. A series of strikes led to changes that graduate students and faculty members touted as big wins:…
Read more Striking Faculty and Grad Students Secured Big Pay Raises This Academic YearAt the annual conference of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education in Baltimore last week, faculty members, staff, and administrators gathered to learn from one…
Read more Who Leads America’s DEI Offices? Here Are Their Stories.Thousands of instructors at Rutgers University joined a national surge in union activity on Monday, becoming the fifth currently active strike on a college campus. Three unions representing…
Read more Rutgers’ President Threatened to Take Striking Instructors to Court. Then He Walked It Back.In an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos criticized administrative bloat at Stanford University, writing that the institution…
Read more Does Stanford Have More Administrators Than Undergrads?The educational-services industry — a category that includes graduate students, faculty members, and undergraduates as well as K-12 staff — accounted for the majority of workers involved in…
Read more Work Stoppages Increased Last Year. Higher Ed Played a Key Role.The provost of Metropolitan State University of Denver is stepping down after the institution’s Board of Trustees put on hold a plan to reduce faculty workload that he’d…
Read more A University Paused a Long-Awaited Plan to Reduce Faculty Workload. Then the Plan’s Booster Stepped Down.Colleges are facing challenges recruiting and retaining top talent in a pandemic-fueled employees’ market. But Virginia State University this month introduced a new strategy to set it apart…
Read more A College Hopes Its Home-Buying Program Will Attract EmployeesMore than 300 academic scientists from around the world are fighting a decision by the University of California at Los Angeles to suspend an award-winning faculty member without…
Read more After Mysterious Suspension of Award-Winning UCLA Prof, Scientists Fight BackGlen E.EllmanDaniel Pullin is the next president of Texas Christian U. CHIEF EXECUTIVESAppointmentsKim E. Armstrong, vice chancellor for student, equity, and community affairs at Arkansas State University-Three Rivers,…
Read more Transitions: Texas Christian U. Names New President; U. of Nebraska at Lincoln President to RetireStephanie Mitchell, Harvard U.Claudine Gay will lead Harvard starting on July 1. CHIEF EXECUTIVESAppointmentsMarshall Criser, a former chancellor of Florida’s university system, has been named the next president…
Read more Transitions: Harvard Names New President; Kenyon College President Steps DownSunil Kumar, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the Johns Hopkins U., will be the next president of Tufts U. CHIEF EXECUTIVESAppointmentsKim Armstrong, vice chancellor…
Read more Transitions: Tufts U. Selects New President; Ohio State U. President Plans to Step DownStatistical snapshots of the percentage of minority noninstructional employees, by job category, at four-year public and private colleges. Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data Note:…
Read more How Diverse Are College Staff Members?Nearly 1,800 part-time faculty members who have been on strike since November 16 will return to work at the New School following the announcement on Saturday night that…
Read more After Three and a Half Weeks, New School Strike Ends With Tentative AgreementFor over a decade, colleges have committed (and recommitted) to diversity, equity, and inclusion among faculty. But how close is higher education as a sector to achieving the…
Read more At This Rate, Faculty Diversity Will Never Reach ParityInside a campus coffee shop at the University of California at Los Angeles, students were hunched over laptops on white plastic tables, armed with cups of coffee. The…
Read more How the Largest Higher-Ed Strike in U.S. History Blew Up FinalsDisillusioned with formal reporting channels, some women are taking to Twitter with accusations of sexual harassment against senior economists in their field. Supporters say explicitly airing names previously…
Read more ‘We’re Done Waiting’: In Economics, Frustrations Over Harassment Take an Explicit Turn Online
