Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

He said that while having a tenured faculty appointment offers some security after being fired from his longtime role, he’ll miss the job at which he was always told he was doing well, and he will miss students most of all. Law remains a distinguished professor of engineering at UF.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

higher ed has relied increasingly on contingent appointments, according to Glenn Colby, senior researcher for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Colby said that the proportion of faculty with tenure or tenure-line has steadily declined to the point where about 24% of faculty appointments are with tenure.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A junior faculty pathway program, Dynamic Appointments in the Research Title Series, was created by University of Kentucky College of Medicine (UKCOM) to bridge the postdoctoral fellows and tenure-track faculty appointments. The focus is on goal development and sustainable behavior change.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Based on AAUP standards, tenured faculty appointments may be terminated other than for cause in cases of financial exigency, which Allegheny never declared. Elsewhere, the AAUP has identified and objected to a trend of institutions laying off faculty members without declaring financial exigency during the pandemic.)

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Donor influence: Donors offering significant financial contributions often have certain expectations, which may include influencing curriculum, research focus, or even faculty appointments. This can create pressure for universities to accommodate these expectations, even if they deviate from academic merit or institutional priorities.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

MAY 8, 2023

In the classic higher-education governance model, faculty, who are the trained experts determine the curriculum and the standards for faculty appointment, promotion, and tenure. Each example strains or violates the principles of shared governance.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JANUARY 19, 2024

Prior to her work in California, she held faculty appointments at Miami University of Ohio and Wayne State University. She also directed the Hispanic Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Princeton’s two newest ERGs are the Parents and Caregivers ERG, which provides a forum for staff with caregiving responsibilities, and the Asian Staff at Princeton ERG, which developed a Year of the Tiger series celebrating Asian and Asian American voices.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

And really with the thought that okay, in the past we’ve been having students come and we have some students that are doing four or five class visits, two faculty appointments, two athletic appointments. We did online faculty appointments, really anything a student asked for we were able to make happen for them virtually.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

AUGUST 12, 2021

For a longest time, sharing data at faculty meetings with the faculty admissions committee, with the provost, with academic affairs, that yield doubles when students interact with faculty period. So that’s simple nugget of data really was the impetus for us to get our faculty involved.

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GlobalHigherEd

OCTOBER 4, 2015

In fact, the concept of what is a “discipline” is worth reflecting on in an era of joint faculty appointments between computer science and literature or philosophy and the growing number of innovative instructional programs that combine information technology, creative arts and business.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The pathology department did offer room, but working outside of her faculty appointment home posed administrative headaches, she says. Vitetta finally got her grant funded the next month. Yet even then, she says, she was denied lab space in the immunology department.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Blacks “have experienced greater gains in securing administrative positions than faculty” appointments. I can personally identify with this trend, seeing that I am the only full professor in my department, and I am Black. In 1985, “Blacks comprised 7.6%” of administrative positions at colleges and universities.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Blacks “have experienced greater gains in securing administrative positions than faculty” appointments. I can personally identify with this trend, seeing that I am the only full professor in my department, and I am Black. In 1985, “Blacks comprised 7.6%” of administrative positions at colleges and universities.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

These legislative actions have been perceived as direct attacks on academic freedom, faculty rights, and the sanctity of tenure. The report highlights instances where educational content, teaching methodologies, and faculty appointments have been influenced by a clear political agenda.

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