2006

A Tenured Radical Takes Office (6/9/2006)

Give Me Liberty or I Quit (5/19/2006)

Inflation Beats ÊFaculty Salaries Again (4/28/2006)

Kaplan U. Professors Seek Faculty Union (3/24/2006)

Part-Time Advocate? P.D. Lesko Publishes a Magazine for Adjuncts, but Stop Telling Her They're Exploited (3/17/2006)

Growth in Part-Timers Slowed in Past Decade, Education Department Finds (1/20/2006)

All Eyes on Tenure (1/6/2006)

2005

The 'Wrong Kind of Indian'? (10/28/2005)

Presidents Favor Scrapping Tenure (11/4/2005)

At a Private Boston College, a Professor-Turned-President Wants Her Former Colleagues to Give Up Their Union (7/8/2005)

A Union Symbol, Headed for Deletion (7/1/2005)

Scenes From the Picket Lines (5/13/2005)

A Presidential Perk That Rankles Professors (5/13/2005)

Veterans of Yale's Graduate-Student Strikes Are Forging Their Experiences Into Scholarship (5/6/2005)

The Professor Who Lost His Classroom (7/14/2005)

2004

The Stipend Gap (10/15/2004)

Part-Time Professors Fight for Unemployment Benefits Between Low-Paying Jobs (10/8/2004)

12 Professors Turned Down for Tenure at the U. of North Texas Cry Foul, but the University Says It Is Striving for Excellence (10/1/2004)

Labor Board Rules Against TA Unions (7/23/2004)

AAUP Censures a College, Criticizes Another, and Drops 3 From List (6/25/2004)

Small Colleges Lag on Sports Opportunities for Women (6/18/2004)

Hello ... I Must Be Going (6/18/2004)

Wrestling Advocates Lose Another Round in Challenge to Title IX (5/28/2004)

Disappearing Act: The Invisible Adjunct shuts Down Her Popular Weblog and Says Goodbye to Academe (4/30/2004)

For These Professors, 'Practice' Is Perfect (4/16/2004)

NCAA Seeks Changes in Reporting of Gender-Equity Data (4/9/2004)

Women Are Landing More Jobs in College Sports (4/2/2004)

Union Blues in the Sunshine State (4/2/2004)

Move to Fire 2 Professors Roils Campus in Mississippi (3/19/2004)

The Man Without a Department (2/27/2004)

Tenure Denied. Now What? (2/20/2004)

Berkeley Denies Tenure to Ecologist Who Criticized University's Ties to the Biotechnology Industry (1/9/2004)

Doctor Dropout (1/16/2004)

2003

How Babies Alter Careers for Academics (12/5/2003)

How Colleges Can Help Faculty Members With Children (12/5/2003)

A Union Without a Contract (11/21/2003)

Seeking 'Equal Pay for Equal Work' (11/21/2003)

A Happy Medium (11/14/2003)

4 Fateful Letters: Professors Denied Tenure at a Small Private College in Wisconsin Fight Back (10/31/2003)

Brooklyn College's History Department Leaves Behind a Tenure Dispute and Gets a New Chairman (10/24/2003)

Strike Ends at Miami U. of Ohio (10/24/2003)

Will Professors Strike in Pennsylvania's State-College System? (10/17/2003

Workers Go on Strike at Miami U. of Ohio (10/10/2003)

Faculty Strike Ends at C.W. Post Campus of Long Island U. (10/10/2003)

Massachusetts Court Rejects Tenure-Denial Lawsuit Against Harvard (10/3/2003)

Yale Workers End Strike (10/3/2003)

Where the Jobs Are (10/3/2003)

The First Thing About Teaching (9/26/2003)

4 Fateful Letters (8/31/2003)

As Good as It Gets (8/15/2003)

Faculty Union Issues Standards for Treatment of Adjuncts (8/2/2002)

Life After Tenure (7/25/2003)

U. of Nebraska Seeks to Lay Off 15 Tenured Faculty Members (7/4/2003)

After 3 Years of Bargaining, U. of California Reaches Accord With Lecturers (6/20/2003)

The Path to a Ph.D. -- and Beyond (6/6/2003)

The Great Divide (5/30/2003)

New Accreditation Rules Give Business Schools More Leeway on Faculty Hiring (5/9/2003)

Nebraska Puts Museum Professors on Endangered Species List (5/2/2003)

The Gap That Won't Go Away (4/18/2003)

The Subtle Side of Discrimination (4/18/2003)

United We Stand? (2/21/2003)

United Academic Workers (1/17/2003)

Tears in the Fabric of Tenure (1/10/2003)

Judge Declines to Back University's Plan to Fire Professor It Accuses of Terrorism (1/10/2003)

Job Applications Go Paperless (1/3/2003)

Widening the Tenure Track (1/3/2003)

2002

Court Upholds Kansas State's Use of Post-Tenure Review to Dismiss Professor (11/29/2002)

Graduate-Student Unions Play a Waiting Game (11/28/2002)

Some Adjuncts at Western Michigan U. Win Right to Tenure (11/15/2002)

Cornell's Teaching Assistants Reject Unionization (11/8/2002)

NLRB Office Approves Union at Private Tennessee College (10/4/2002)

Georgia Regents Allow Universities to Use More Lecturers (9/13/2002)

In a First, Pennsylvania Coaches Negotiate Contracts as a Team (9/6/2002)

Lawyers Top Faculty-Salary List -- Again (9/6/2002)

Faculty Union Issues Standards for Treatment of Adjuncts (8/2/2002)

U. of Illinois Clears Way for TA Union (6/28/2002)

Professor Settles Lawsuit With Brigham Young University (6/21/2002)

2 Unions Fight to Represent 4,000 Adjuncts at NYU (6/7/2002)

Union? No Thanks. (5/17/2002)

Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members Vote to Unionize at U. of Michigan (5/9/2002)

Court Allows Union at Keene State (5/3/2002)

Adjuncts at NYU May Form Union (5/3/2002)

Nevada Supreme Court Rules Against Professor Who Was Denied Tenure (4/26/2002)

A College Drops Tenure to Stay Alive (4/26/2002)

Faculty Salaries Rise, for Now (4/19/2002)

Bill in Washington State Would Allow Professors to Bargain Collectively, If ... (3/29/2002)

Conn. Court Upholds Part of Verdict Favoring Woman Denied Tenure by Trinity (3/15/2002)

Europe Tries to Attract a New Generation of Academics (3/8/2002)

Twin Setbacks Hit Faculty-Union Drives at Private Colleges (3/1/2002)

Delaware State Settles Bias Lawsuit by White Professor It Fired (3/1/2002)

Interest in the Islamic World Produces Academic Jobs in U.S. (3/1/2002)

Ever So Slowly, Colleges Start to Count Work With Technology in Tenure Decisions (2/22/2002)

Faculty Senate Rejects Plan to Extend Tenure Throughout U. of Arkansas (2/15/2002)

Do You Have to Be a Nice Person to Win Tenure? (2/1/2002)

Working Half Time on the Tenure Track (1/25/2002)

The Tightening Job Market (1/11/2002)

The State of Hiring (1/11/2002)

2001

Teaching Assistants Strike at Urbana-Champaign (12/14/2001)

Brown U. TA's Have Right to Form Union, NLRB Regional Director Rules (11/30/2001)

A Push to Help New Parents Prepare for Tenure Reviews (11/9/2001)

For Women With Tenure and Families, Moving Up the Ranks Is Challenging (11/9/2001)

Colleges Have Cut Proportion of Full-Time Faculty Members, Study Finds (11/2/2001)

How a Card-Carrying Republican Ended Up Organizing Adjuncts (11/2/2001)

Survey Shows Salary Gap Between Men and Women in the Life Sciences (10/26/2001)

Lecturers Hold 2-Day Strike at 5 University of California Campuses (10/25/2001

Faculty Strike Halts Classes at Community College in Illinois (10/25/2001)

Temple U. Agrees to Negotiate With Teaching Assistants' Union (10/12/2001)

AAUP Criticizes Dismissal of 2 Tenured Professors by U. of Dubuque (10/12/2001)

Stipends Are Key in Competition to Land Top Graduate Students (9/28/2001)

A Scholar's Quixotic Crusade Against Harvard and Its Secrets (9/21/2001)

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Faculty Union's Dues-Collection Procedure (9/21/2001)

Temple Teaching Assistants Win Ruling in Union Drive (9/7/2001)

When Is Post-Tenure Review Not Post-Tenure Review? (8/17/2001)

NLRB Rules Against Faculty Union at Sage Colleges (8/17/2001)

Early-Retirement Offers to Faculty Members Are Common, a Study Finds (8/10/2001)

A Promising Professor Backs a T.A. Union Drive and Is Rejected for Tenure (8/10/2001)

Jill Carroll, a Proud Part-Timer, Thinks Many Adjuncts Need a New Attitude (8/3/2001)

Continuing-Education Instructors Turn to Unionization to Improve Conditions (8/3/2001)

More Professors Said to Be Off Tenure Track (7/6/2001)

Report Reveals Tight Job Market for Historians of Gay Topics (7/6/2001)

Sacred Heart U. Professors Lose Bid to Unionize (7/6/2001)

Success and New Hurdles for T.A. Unions (7/6/2001)

U. of California at San Diego Ends Labor Dispute (6/29/2001)

The Hiring Boom at 2-Year Colleges (6/15/2001)

Northeastern U. Professors Reject Tenure Changes (6/15/2001)

Former Professor at Georgia Wins $453,460 in Tenure Suit (6/8/2001)

Tenure Denial Sparks Protests at Chicago-Kent College of Law; Legal Scholar Gives Up Endowed Chair at Pepperdine to Become Dean at Catholic U. (6/1/2001)

Why Do So Many People Leave Graduate School Without a Ph.D.? (6/1/2001)

Prominent Female Astronomer Leaves Harvard Over Tenure Dispute (5/18/2001)

Northeastern Proposal for Post-Tenure Review Goes Too Far, Critics Say (5/11/2001)

A Shortage of Business Professors Leads to 6-Figure Salaries for New Ph.D.'s (5/4/2001)

Proportion of Part-Time Faculty Members Leveled Off From 1992 to 1998, Data Show (5/4/2001)

Resident Assistants Seek Union at U. of Massachusetts at Amherst (5/4/2001)

A Faculty Strike in Hawaii Shuts Down Public Education (4/27/2001)

The Price Professors Pay for Teaching at Public Universities (4/20/2001)

The Backlash Against Hiring Couples (4/13/2001)

State Labor Board Deals Blow to T.A.'s at University of Illinois (4/13/2001)

Teaching Assistants at Temple U. Vote to Unionize (4/13/2001)

Graduate Studies in Science Expand Beyond the Ph.D. (4/6/2001)

U. of Michigan Strikes a Deal With Teaching Assistants (3/29/2001)

Looking (Without Much Success) for New Ways to Help Postdocs (3/23/2001)

A Big Breakthrough for T.A. Unions (3/16/2001)

T.A. Unions at Private Universities: What the Breakthrough at N.Y.U. Means (3/15/2001)

Thorny Tenure Case at Case Western Leads to Sex-Bias Charges (2/23/2001)

Syracuse U. to Pay Higher Minimum Wage (2/23/2001)

Strike Over Health Benefits Ends at Elgin Community College (2/23/2001

The Number of New Ph.D.'s Drops for the First Time Since 1985 (2/9/2001)

Yale Increases Stipends for Ph.D. Students by 20% (2/2/2001)

Part-Time Faculty Members Try to Organize Nationally (1/26/2001)

Strike Ends at Toronto's York U. (1/26/2001)

Harvard Loses a Round in Contentious Tenure Case (1/26/2001)

Survey Points to Mismatch in Doctoral Programs (1/26/2001)

MLA Moves to Encourage the Use of Full-Time Faculty Members (1/12/2001)

Psychology Ph.D.'s Pass on Academe (1/12/2001)

Bennington Settles With and Apologizes to Professors It Dismissed (1/12/2001)

A Higher Bar for Earning Tenure (1/5/2001)

MLA Survey Reveals Wide Discrepancy in Part-Time Faculty Members' Earnings (1/5/2001)

Report Offers Tips on Tenure Policies (1/5/2001)

2000

A Private College's Professors Try for a Unionizing Breakthrough (12/15/2000)

T.A.'s at U. of Washington Call Off Planned Strike (12/15/2000)

Job-Sharing Rises as Professors Seek Flexible Schedules (12/8/2000)

Union Organizers Propose Code of University Conduct (12/1/2000)

Study Shows Colleges' Dependence on Their Part-Time Instructors (12/1/2000)

Reliance on Part-Time Faculty Members and How They Are Treated, Selected Disciplines (12/1/2000)

Professors at Occidental College Protest Tenure Denial (12/1/2000)

The Professor Who Would Not Leave (11/24/2000)

Teaching Assistants and Universities Plot Strategy in Union Battle (11/17/2000)

NLRB Rules T.A.'s at Private Universities Have the Right to Unionize (11/10/2000)

T.A.'s at Temple U. Win Right to Collective Bargaining (11/3/2000)

Committee Urges Boston University to Demand More of Professors (10/27/2000)

Universities Wield Privacy Law in Clashes With T.A. Unions (10/27/2000)

Tenured Professors Show Willingness to Walk Out Over Use of Lecturers (9/22/2000)

Report Clears Florida State of Sex-Bias Charges, but Blasts Handling of Complaints (8/18/2000)

Alleged Death Threats, a Hunger Strike, and a Department at Risk Over a Tenure Decision (8/4/2000)

Pomona Professor Goes on a Hunger Strike to Protest His Tenure Denial (7/28/2000)

U. of Oregon Settles Tenure Lawsuit Over Maternity Leave (7/21/2000)

Graduate Students at U. of Illinois Campus Win Ruling on Union (7/21/2000)

Legal Group Accuses National Education Association of Breaking the Law (7/7/2000)

NLRB Lets Stand a Decision Allowing Professors at a Private College to Unionize (7/7/2000)

AAUP Reaches Out and Takes Sides (6/23/2000)

What Does It Mean When a College Hires 5 Black Scholars? (6/9/2000)

Medical Schools Seek to Deal With Ruling on Unions for Residents (6/9/2000)

A New Campus Without Tenure Considers What It's Missing (5/12/2000)

Activist Academics Oust Leadership of CUNY's Faculty Union (5/12/2000)

NYU Appeals Ruling on Union for Teaching Assistants (5/12/2000)

A Couple's Struggle to Find Good Jobs in the Same City (4/21/2000)

Please Place This in an Appropriate Colleague's Mailbox (4/14/2000)

Adjuncts at Roosevelt U. Vote to Unionize (4/14/2000)

NLRB Ruling May Demolish the Barriers to T.A. Unions at Private Universities (4/14/2000)

Yale Settles Dispute on Grade Strike by Teaching Assistants Seeking a Union (4/14/2000)

The Right Conditions May Lure Scholars to Jobs Off the Tenure Track, Study Finds (4/7/2000)

For T.A.'s, Winning the Right to Unionize Is Only Half the Battle (3/31/2000)

Union Drive Voted Down by Illinois State University Professors (3/31/2000)

Affirmative Action's Impact on Academe Has Been Minimal, a New Book Argues (3/24/2000)

A New Push for ABD's to Cross the Finish Line (3/24/2000)

The Imminent Surge in Retirements (3/17/2000)

Two Academic Careers and One Fulfilling Job (3/17/2000)

Despite Their Gripes, Professors Are Generally Pleased With Careers, Poll Finds (3/3/2000)

Miami-Dade Faculty Approves First Contract (3/3/2000)

Female Professors Said to Lag at Medical Schools (3/3/2000)

Part-Time Faculty Members in Washington State Win Key Battle Over Benefits (2/25/2000)

Full-Time Lecturers at Eastern Michigan U. Win Right to Unionize (2/11/2000)

Part-Timers Continue to Replace Full-Timers on College Faculties (1/28/2000)

Union Movement at Private Colleges Awakens After a 20-Year Slumber (1/21/2000)

Female Historians Suggest Slowing Tenure Clock (1/21/2000)

Female and Minority Law Professors Said to Need Mentors (1/21/2000)

Job Market Improves for Historians, and Competition Stiffens for Senior Scholars (1/21/2000)

For the Second Year in a Row, Graduate Students Get Their Way at the MLA (1/7/2000)

1999

T.A.'s at Oregon State U. Vote to Unionize (12/3/1999)

California Medical Residents Found to Be Employees (12/3/1999)

Universities See Slight Increase in Number of Doctorates Awarded (11/26/1999)

NLRB Official Says Professors at Manhattan College, a Private Institution, Can Unionize (11/26/1999)

Restoring Sanity to an Academic World Gone Mad (11/5/1999)

A Doctoral Dropout's Quest for Closure (11/5/1999)

Journal Publishes 6 Scholars' Debate on the Job Market for Humanities Ph.D.'s (11/5/1999)

A Faculty Union Uses the Web as a Tool in a Labor Dispute (11/5/1999)

Ohio Court Upholds Law Barring Collective Bargaining on Faculty Workloads (10/29/1999)

A University Decides That Its Ph.D.'s Should Be Able to Talk to Average Joes (10/8/1999)

Canadian Universities Are Losing Top Professors to U.S. Institutions (9/17/1999)

Persistence Paid Off for 'Lost Generation' of English Ph.D.'s, Study Finds (9/10/1999)

Professors Publish How-To Guide for Part-Time Academics (7/30/1999)

U. of Connecticut Physicians Vote Against Unionizing (7/2/1999)

Teaching Assistants at U. of California Vote to Unionize (7/2/1999)

Georgia State U. Cuts Some Part-Time Positions to Add 65 Full-Time Faculty Jobs (6/11/1999)

Web Sites Track the Latest Rumors About Jobs in Science (6/4/1999)

Law and Finance Professors Are Top Earners in Academe, Survey Finds (5/28/1999)

Salary Pact Reached at California State U. (5/21/1999)

Teaching Assistants at U. of Minnesota Reject Union (5/21/1999)

Union Wins Graduate-Student Election at U. of California at Berkeley (5/21/1999)

Massachusetts Official Proposes Bonuses for Professors Who Forgo Tenure Track (5/14/1999)

Teaching Assistants at NYU Demand Union Recognition (5/7/1999)

Master's Degrees Are the Hot Topic at a Meeting on Doctoral Education (4/30/1999)

At Yale Meeting, Activists Push to Link Academe and Organized Labor (4/30/1999)

Tenure Denials to 3 Hispanics Raise Ethnic Tensions at St. Mary's in Texas (4/23/1999)

Faculty Salaries Are Up 3.6%, Double the Rate of Inflation (4/23/1999)

A National Project Aims to "Re-Envision" the Ph.D. (4/16/1999)

Finding New Paths for Ph.D.'s in the Humanities (4/16/1999)

Growth in Positions Off the Tenure Track Is a Trend That's Here to Stay, Study Finds (4/9/1999)

Leaders of California State U. Faculty Union Vote to Authorize a Strike (4/9/1999)

Yale Relies on TA's and Adjuncts for Teaching, Report Says (4/9/1999)

One Study Finds Tenure Still Has Cachet, but Another Suggests the Untenured Are Happy, Too (4/2/1999)

TA's at UCLA Vote to Unionize (4/2/1999)

Eastern Michigan University Lecturers Demand Unionization (4/2/1999)

Supreme Court Says Ohio Can Bypass Collective Bargaining on Faculty Workloads (4/2/1999)

Why Tenure Is Indispensable (4/2/1999)

California State U. Imposes Contract on Faculty Members (3/26/1999)

U. of Michigan Averts Strike by Teaching Assistants (3/26/1999)

Wayne State U. Graduate-Student Workers Demand Wider Recognition (3/26/1999)

U. of California Opens Door to Recognition of Teaching Assistants' Union (3/26/1999)

U. of Michigan Teaching Assistants Walk Out to Protest Pace of Contract Talks (3/19/1999)

Faculty Members in California State U. System Reject Tentative Contract (3/19/1999)

The Frustrating Career of the "Trailing Spouse" (3/19/1999)

Business Schools Report Big Increase in Hiring (3/19/1999)

Public Universities Appeal for Funds to Improve Faculty Salaries (2/26/1999)

Doctoral Programs Decide That Smaller Is Better (2/26/1999)

Keene State U. Trims Course Load of Activist Adjunct (2/19/1999)

2 Business Professors Sue U. of California, Charging Racial Bias and Retaliation (2/19/1999)

$12.7-Million Judgment in Tenure Case Leaves Many Academic Experts Stunned (2/5/1999)

Federal Court Overturns Verdict of Reverse Bias at U. of Southern Mississippi (2/5/1999)

California State University Reaches Tentative Salary Deal With Faculty Union (2/5/1999)

For Job Hunters in Academe, 1999 Offers Signs of an Upturn (1/29/1999)

Teaching Assistants Vow to Resume Strike at U. of California (1/29/1999)

Report Urges Post-Tenure Reviews for Professors and More Pay for Part-Timers (1/22/1999)

U. of Pittsburgh Loses Male Professor's Reverse-Bias Lawsuit (1/15/1999)

New Economics Ph.D.'s See Better Job Market (1/15/1999)

More Community Colleges Push to Hire Ph.D.'s as Professors (1/8/1999)

California Employment Board Says T.A.'s Can Bargain Collectively (1/8/1999)

Graduate Students Win Concessions at Contentious MLA Meeting (1/8/1999)

1998

Embittered by a Bleak Job Market, Graduate Students Take On the MLA (12/18/1998)

U. of California and Its Teaching Assistants Reach Cease-Fire in Unionization Battle (12/18/1998)

Teaching Assistants Strike at U. of California Campuses (12/11/1998)

Goddard College Allows Faculty to Unionize (12/4/1998)

Professors' Association Backs Right of Graduate Students to Unionize (11/27/1998)

War of Words Heats Up at Yale Over Graduate-Student Organizing (11/27/1998)

Teaching Assistants Plan Showdown Over Unionization (11/13/1998)

California State U. Union Puts to Sea to Dramatize Contract Impasse (10/30/1998)

Universities Scramble to Find Teachers of Freshman Composition (10/30/1998)

Tenure Will Be Harder to Get, Experts Say, but It Won't Disappear (10/23/1998)

Reaching the Tenure Track (9/4/1998)

Arts School in Detroit Accused of Firing Union Activists (9/4/1998)

Graduate Students Gather to Learn 'Organizing 101' (8/14/1998)

U. of Massachusetts Union Agrees to Tie Higher Pay to Post-Tenure Reviews (7/31/1998)

American Federation of Teachers Backs Merger With National Education Association (7/31/1998)

For Some Adjunct Faculty Members, the Tenure Track Holds Little Appeal (7/24/1998)

Boston U. Management School Pays New Professors More if They Work Under Contract (7/17/1998)

U. of New Mexico Employees Win Bargaining Rights in Court Ruling (7/10/1998)

AAUP Offers Guidance on Post-Tenure Reviews (6/26/1998)

Contracts Replace the Tenure Track for a Growing Number of Professors (6/12/1998)

The Merger of 2 National Teachers' Unions Could Create a New Force for Professors (5/22/1998)

South Dakota Faculty Union Sues State's Board of Regents Over Merit Raises (5/15/1998)

New Mexico Highlands U. Faculty Votes to Unionize (5/1/1998)

U. of Michigan Gives Voting Rights to Clinical Professors at Medical School (4/3/1998)

Labor Strife at Miami-Dade (3/20/1998)

Professors at Miami-Dade Are Confident of Victory in Latest Attempt to Unionize (2/27/1998)

Faculty Unions Move to Organize Growing Ranks of Part-Time Professors (2/27/1998)

Part-Time Instructors Vote to Unionize at Chicago's Columbia College (2/13/1998)

American Association of University Professors Attacks Tenure Policy at Bennington College (1/30/1998)

State Judge Clears Way for U. of Alaska Adjuncts to Bargain (1/23/1998)

Project Seeks to Help Colleges Use Peer Review to Evaluate Teaching (1/16/1998)

Citing 'Crisis' in Job Market, MLA Urges Changes in Graduate Education (1/9/1998)

Union Seeks to Organize Most Employees of Australian Universities by 2000 (1/9/1998)

NLRB May End Its Opposition to Unions for Private-College Professors (1/9/1998)

1997

Labor-Relations Board to Hear Yale Graduate Students' Case (12/19/1997)

Alabama Supreme Court Says Law Applies to Tenure Bids at 2-Year Colleges (12/12/1997)

A Take-No-Prisoners Approach to Changing Public Higher Education in Massachusetts (12/5/1997)

Yale's Labor Strife Leads Some of Its Ph.D.'s to Abandon Academe for Union Organizing (12/5/1997)

Do Accreditors Look the Other Way When Colleges Rely on Part-Timers? (11/7/1997)

Career Success for Some Ph.D.'s Comes by Leaving Academe Behind (10/31/1997)

As Teaching Assistants Push to Unionize, Debate Grows Over What They Would Gain (10/3/1997)

Horror Stories and Practical Advice: a New Book on the Academic Job Market (9/19/1997)

New Organization Hopes to Forge Ties Between Academe and Labor (9/12/1997)

Judge Explains Ruling in Yale Union Dispute (9/5/1997)

Columbia College Chicago Establishes Its First Tenure System (7/3/1997)

Fierce Battle Over Tenure at U. of Minnesota Ends Quietly (6/20/1997)

U. of D.C. Backs Down in Fight With Faculty Union (5/9/1997)

A Graduate Student's Job Search Leads Her Far Afield (4/25/1997)

Graduate Students on U. of Illinois Campus Vote to Unionize (4/25/1997)

U. of Cal. Teaching Assistants Announce Intent to Unionize (4/18/1997)

Yale U. May Redefine Graduate Teaching Assistants' Jobs (4/18/1997)

Reliance on Lecturers Said to Produce 'Faceless Departments' (3/28/1997)

Bucking Tradition, Washington U. Shrinks Its Ph.D. Programs (3/21/1997)

Graduate Students on 30 Campuses Rally for Unions, Better Pay (3/7/1997)

U. of Minn. Faculty Rejects Union, Despite Battle With Regents (2/21/1997)

Scholar Provides Framework for Plans to End or Revamp Tenure (2/14/1997)

Job Market for Ph.D.'s Shows First Signs of Improvement (1/31/1997)

1996

Yale Graduate Students Vote to Create Assembly (11/22/1996)

Minnesota Regents Change Tenure Policy for Their Law School (11/15/1996)

More Faculty Members Question the Value of Tenure (10/25/1996)

Labor Leaders and Academics Seek to Forge a New Alliance (10/18/1996)

Florida Regents Approve Post-Tenure Reviews for All Professors (10/11/1996)

Debate on Tenure Plan Delayed at U. of Minnesota (10/4/1996)

U. of Iowa Raises Minimum Salary 19% for Teaching Assistants (9/27/1996)

UCLA Teaching Assistants Granted Collective-Bargaining Rights (9/27/1996)

Metropolitan State College Reviews Its Tenure Policy (9/20/1996)

Rutgers U. Professors Protest Outside President's Home (9/20/1996)

Minnesota Regents' Proposals Stir Controversy With Faculty (9/20/1996)

As Contract Talks Reach Impasse at Rutgers U., a Strike Looms (9/13/1996)

North Dakota Revises Tenure to Allow More Emphasis on Teaching (9/12/1996)

Faculty Union Files Suit Against U. of District of Columbia (7/5/1996)

Modern Language Assn. Censures Yale U. in Dispute Over Union (7/5/1996)

Science Ph.D. Students Told to Prepare for Non-Academic Careers (6/28/1996)

Scholars Off the Tenure Track Wonder If They'll Ever Get On (6/14/1996)

Yale's Commencement Features Ivied Pomp and Union Protests (6/7/1996)

Deans of Los Angeles Community Colleges Form Union (5/31/1996)

Minnesota Professors Irate Over Plans They Say Threaten Tenure (5/17/1996)

U. of Iowa Graduate Students Vote to Unionize (5/3/1996)

U. of Michigan and Teaching Assistants Agree on Contract (4/19/1996)

Universities Debate What They Should Do About Tight Job Market (3/15/1996)

Modern Language Assn. Debates Stand on Yale Graduate Students (3/8/1996)

Labor Relations at Temple U. Become Surprisingly Friendly (3/1/1996)

Medical Schools Consider Limiting Tenure, Cutting Salaries (2/16/1996)

New Generation of Professors Is Changing the Face of Academe (2/2/1996)

Many Campus Unions Protest as Contract Negotiations Stall (1/26/1996)

Police Arrest 137 at Yale Union Protest (1/19/1996)

Unemployment Rate for Language Ph.D.'s Hits 10-Year High (1/12/1996)

200 Yale Graduate Students Said to Take Part in Grade Strike (1/12/1996)

1995

Adelphi U. President Moves to Decertify Faculty Union (12/8/1995)

Florida A&M Faculty Members Challenge Workload Policy (12/8/1995)

More Colleges Conduct Post-Tenure Reviews (7/21/1995)

California State University Pact Would Offer Faculty Pay Raise (7/7/1995)

Study Says U.S. Universities Produce Too Many Doctorates (6/30/1995)

New Florida University to Offer an Alternative to Tenure (6/2/1995)

Teaching Assistants Unionize (5/26/1995)

In 1994 the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that documents related to tenure and promotion decisions at the Ohio State University were public records. In a seven-page special report based on these documents and dozens of interviews, The Chronicle provides a rare glimpse of this important, controversial, but usually secret feature of the academic world.

• Revealing the Secrets of the Tenure Process (4/14/1995)

• Will Unlocking the Files Disrupt the Process? (4/14/1995)

• Wrestling With the Issue of Race (4/14/1995)

• Waiting for Talented Scholars to Reach Their Potential (4/14/1995)

• For a Handful of Candidates, the Process Is a Breeze (4/14/1995)

• At Branch Campuses, Teaching Matters More (4/14/1995)

• How Do You Evaluate Industrial Designers? (4/14/1995)

• One Professor's Tenure Odyssey at Ohio State University (4/14/1995)

South Carolina Lawmaker Would Abolish Tenure (3/31/1995)

Tenure Re-Examined: Association Hopes 2-Year Study Will Lead to More Flexibility in Academic Careers (3/31/1995)

Teachers' Unions End Discussions of Merger (1/6/1995)

1994

University May Toughen the Search Process (11/2/1994)

Long Island U. Strike Ends After Three Days (10/26/1994)

Faculty Strike Ends, Classes Begin at Long Island U. (10/5/1994)

Professors at U. of New Hampshire Vote to Strike Over Pay (9/14/1994)

U. of Iowa Is Doing Something Right (7/27/1994)

MLA Looks at How Universities Are Filling Empty Slots (7/27/1994)

Job-Market Blues: Instead of the Anticipated Demand, New Ph.D.'s Are Finding Few Openings (4/27/1994)

U. of Ky. Hopes to Inspire Lazy Professors (4/20/1994)

Math Society Attacks Hiring of Part-Time Professors (2/16/1994)

Teachers' Unions See Strength in Mergers (11/16/1994)

1993

1992

Wisconsin Professors Win New Way to Appeal Tenure Denial (4/1/1992)

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2006

Can Blogging Derail Your Career? (7/28/2006)

Legal Contingencies for Contingent Professors (6/16/2006)

The Value of Forging Alliances (6/16/2006)

The Proper Advocates for Adjuncts (6/16/2006)

Some Thoughts on Receiving Tenure (3/17/2006)

Professor Goodgrade: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Give Lots of A's (2/24/2006)

What Next? Awaiting Word on His Tenure Case, an Assistant Professor Finds Himself Starting, and Abandoning, New Projects (2/3/2006)

2005

Should Librarians Get Tenure? No, It Can Hamper Their Roles (9/30/2005)

By the Numbers, Please (10/7/2005)

2004

The Provost as Gatekeeper (7/2/2004)

The Tenure Gloat (1/16/2004)

2003

Location, Location, Location (11/14/2003)

Back to High School (11/7/2003)

When Tenure Isn't Enough (10/31/2003)

Two-Year Colleges Not for You? Think Again (10/24/2003)

Colleges Must Not Be Above the Law (10/10/2003)

Going It Alone (10/10/2003)

Colleges Must Not Be Above the Law (10/10/2003)

Working Part Time by Choice (10/3/2003)

Understanding the Economic Burden of Scholarly Publishing (10/3/2003)

Cappuccino Dreams (9/19/2003)

Pinch Me: I'm a Full-Time Historian (9/19/2003)

The Facts of Life for an Administrator and a Mother (9/5/2003)

The 5 Virtues of Successful Graduate Students (9/5/2003)

Some Reflection on Rejection (8/15/2003)

Dizzy With Options (7/25/2003)

We're Happy. Really. (7/18/2003)

When Tenure Fails (6/13/2003)

A Steadier State in Hiring for Colleges (6/6/2003)

How Cornell Beat a Union by Letting TA's Vote (1/17/2003)

2002

The Random Insanity of Letters of Recommendation (3/1/2002)

Academe Subverts Young Scholars' Civic Orientation (2/8/2002)

2001

Professors Who Defend Tenure: Are They Hypocrites? (10/5/2001)

10 Ways to Keep Graduate Students From Quitting (6/29/2001)

A Bill of Rights for Job Candidates (1/26/2001)

2000

Why Can't I Get a Raise? (9/22/2000)

Why Battles Over Tenure Shouldn't End Up in the Courtroom (8/11/2000)

As Professors Age, Retirement Policies Need Rejuvenating (6/2/2000)

Gaining Tenure: Rules Your Chairman Never Told You (5/5/2000)

A Dean's Skepticism About a Graduate-Student Union (5/5/2000)

1999

Colleges Shouldn't Be Employment Agencies (4/16/1999)

1998

Graduate Student, Employee, Union Member? Teaching Assistants Try to Define Their Roles (12/11/1998)

Pressures to Publish Fuel the Professionalization of Today's Graduate Students (11/27/1998)

Happiness and Power for Part-Timers (9/4/1998)

A Realistic Alternative to Traditional Tenure (6/26/1998)

Educators Need to Join Labor's Fight Against Paycheck Protection Laws (5/22/1998)

What Tenure Really Means (5/15/1998)

Discrimination Against Part-Timers (4/10/1998)

1997

Why Pursuing a Ph.D. Is a Risky Business (11/14/1997)

The Gates of Heaven: Writers and Tenure (6/27/1997)

The Danger Inherent in Abusing Academic Freedom (6/20/1997)

Graduate Students Are Not Employees (4/18/1997)

Tenure Remains Vital to Academic Freedom (4/4/1997)

Eliminating Tenure Without Destroying Academic Freedom (2/28/1997)

Why Professors Should Support Graduate-Student Unions (2/21/1997)

Why Academe Needs More Employment Options (2/7/1997)

1996

Academe's New Class of Migrant Workers (9/13/1996)

Faculty Diversity When Jobs Are Scarce: Debunking the Myths (9/6/1996)

1995

Tenure and the Loss of Faculty Talent (7/14/1995)

1994

Tenured Professors Who Pay No Price for Being Wrong (2/6/1994)

Thinking the Unthinkable About Tenure (2/6/1994)