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The United States gets roughly an eighth of its tenure-track professors from just five institutions, according to an analysis of nearly 300,000 faculty.

Professors in the Sunshine State may soon face an additional tenure review process under the bill, but not much is yet known about how it will change tenure retention.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute will invest the funds over 10 years across all stages of the STEM pipeline.

The faculty voted 1511 to 612 to affiliate with United Steelworkers.

As the hiring season gets underway, academic listings are still way down from last year, but there are signs of the job market picking back up.

esearchers who failed to disclose affiliations and funding sources from other countries are under investigation, and some universities are letting them go discreetely and refunding grant money to the agency.

A study finds professors from underrepresented groups more actively engage in diversity and inclusion activities.

An uproar over the university’s handling of sexual misconduct accusations led to C.L. Max Nikias’s resignation.  

The organization says election to the NAS is for life.

The University of Tokyo confirmed last August that Yoshinori Watanabe tampered with research-related images, and dismissed him in late April.

Quentin Wheeler’s firing of department chairs earlier this year didn’t sit well with university faculty members.  

The specific reason for Thomas Jessell’s dismissal has not been disclosed.

Institutions document the effects of unconscious bias and set specific goals for gender balance.

To correct gender disparities in academic science, the Max Planck Society and the Australian government are taking the uncommonly direct approach of affirmative action.

The nine plaintiffs allege the university’s actions put women at risk.

An open letter from hundreds of faculty members in the U.S. and abroad declares they won’t encourage students to pursue education or careers there.

Authored by Salk PIs, the study claims women attract more federal funding, yet have smaller labs and receive less support from the institute.

STEM faculties at public universities have an underrepresentation of African Americans, Hispanics, and women, but there are signs of change.

A cardiovascular surgeon’s research was rejected for publication because it referenced evolutionary theory, Turkish outlets report, while the university at the center of the tumult claims the story is false.