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  • 2 weeks ago | chronicle.com | Brian F. O’Leary |Megan Zahneis

    It’s no secret that faculty members are effectively earning less than they did 20 years ago, and fewer of them are on the tenure track. But a new analysis from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources sheds light on how these dynamics play out by discipline. The report charts pay, growth, and hiring trends across 29 academic disciplines over a 20-year span.

  • 2 weeks ago | chronicle.com | Megan Zahneis

    Colin Holbrook expected Sunday’s graduation ceremony at the University of California at Merced to be a celebratory occasion. An associate professor of cognitive and information sciences, Holbrook showed up to the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts’s commencement in part to support a graduating student from his lab who would be speaking at the ceremony. But before the festivities got underway, Holbrook was asked by plainclothes police officers to leave the venue.

  • 1 month ago | chronicle.com | Megan Zahneis

    As the Trump administration has taken sweeping action to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at colleges, a little-known national nonprofit that has long sought to increase the racial diversity of business-school faculty members has become collateral damage. The PhD Project has for three decades encouraged business professionals from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue doctorates in the discipline.

  • 1 month ago | chronicle.com | Megan Zahneis

    What’s NewThe National Science Foundation has frozen funding for all new and existing grants, according to Nature, bringing billions of dollars in federally supported research to a halt. The agency also announced on Friday that it was capping indirect funding for new awards at 15 percent, following the lead of the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy, which imposed their own 15-percent limits in recent months. Both of those agencies’ caps have been paused by federal judges.

  • 1 month ago | chronicle.com | Megan Zahneis

    Two internal reports released by Harvard University on Tuesday paint a picture of a hostile campus climate for Jewish, Israeli, Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian community members, and highlight perceptions that the university’s administration failed to support and protect students, faculty, and staff members from those backgrounds. Or subscribe now to read with unlimited access for as low as $10/month.

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