Ryan Quinn

1 week ago | insidehighered.com | Ryan Quinn

Average full-time faculty pay rose again, per an AAUP report, but not to pre-pandemic levels. Colleges and universities participating in the American Association of University Professors’ annual faculty pay survey have reported a promising trend: For two years in a row now, the inflation-adjusted average salary for continuing, full-time faculty has increased. Continuing faculty are those who have been employed at the same institution for two consecutive years.

1 week ago | insidehighered.com | Ryan Quinn

Despite a judge’s ruling last week that the Trump administration can’t continue to detain pro-Palestine campus activist Mahmoud Khalil “based on the Secretary of State’s determination,” the Columbia University graduate will remain in custody for now. In a Friday letter to Michael E. Farbiarz, U.S. District Court judge for the District of New Jersey, Justice Department attorneys wrote that the government would continue to hold Khalil on other grounds, in an ongoing attempt to deport him.

2 weeks ago | insidehighered.com | Ryan Quinn

A judge released a Harvard Medical School research associate and Russian native Thursday. She had been held in federal detention for nearly four months after she tried to re-enter the U.S.Kseniia Petrova still faces a criminal charge for allegedly trying to smuggle frog embryos into the country through Boston’s Logan International Airport, where Customs and Border Protection detained her, but she’s been freed for now. “I hear it’s sunny. Goodbye,” U.S. magistrate judge Judith G.

2 weeks ago | insidehighered.com | Ryan Quinn

Central Ohio Technical College says it hasn’t signed a union contract because of SB 1.

2 weeks ago | insidehighered.com | Ryan Quinn

Last month the University of Utah signed a one-page memorandum of understanding with Ariel University, listing its new partner as located in Ariel, Israel. It’s a broad, nonspecific agreement: The institutions say they’ll exchange faculty and students, and their cooperation “may extend to any fields and subjects” where they share interests.