tenure

A large coalition of colleges and universities aims to change hiring, promotion, and tenure practices to reward collaboration.

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.

Thanks to administrative shuffling, professor Carl-Wilhelm Vogel remains employed at the University of Hawai‘i despite the removal of his position in the new state budget, but the university’s faculty union says lawmakers might have crossed a legal line.

Carl-Wilhelm Vogel could lose his position at the University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center if the currently proposed state budget is signed by Governor David Ige.

Her departure follows her denial of tenure.

The German research institution will invest more than $35 million in creating tenure-track positions for female scientists. 

Proposed legislation would eliminate academic tenure at public universities in Iowa and Missouri, echoing a move that has already gutted such permanent posts in Wisconsin.

Jordan Kurland, associate general secretary of the American Association of University Professors, has passed away at age 87. 

A new way of evaluating academics’ research output using easily obtained data

Current models do a poor job of predicting the impact individual scientists will have, according to a study.

An eight-year study finds freshman benefit more from adjunct-taught classes than those led by faculty in the tenure system.

Dealing with the delicate matter of retirement for aging academics