The American Association of University Professors is back on track after the financial and organizational derailments it endured over the past three years. That was the message the group's leadership reiterated throughout the business portion of the association's 95th annual meeting in June 2009. The overall meeting was attended by about 230…

Faculty pay has been battered by the deepening national recession, but one cannot tell that from the American Association of University Professors' new annual report on the economic status of the profession. The average salary of a full-time faculty member rose 3.4% in 2008-2009, it says, a rate well above inflation. That would be good news, but…

What does it take to run an international-education office? A detailed understanding of obtuse federal regulations, the ability to recruit foreign students on a shoestring budget, and a talent for creating study-abroad programs that are both academically rigorous and highly popular. That was the message in dozens of sessions last week at the…

Professors who think faculty unions are adversarial and administrators who think collective bargaining contracts tie their hands say the Yeshiva University ruling has had a lasting and positive effect on academe. On the other side are faculty seeking a larger role in governance and faculty-union activists. (MSE)

The National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, thought to be ready to merge, have ended negotiations. Response to the failed talks has varied greatly. Some local chapters have already joined forces, others continue to consider it. (MSE)

Professors and the Florida State Board of Regents have agreed to experiment with an alternative to tenure at Florida Gulf Coast University, scheduled to open in 1997. Administrators will have the option of whether to offer new professors tenure or multi-year contracts. The arrangement is a compromise between elimination of tenure and the contract…

The National Education Association's response to the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy proposals for school reform gives qualified support to suggestions for changes in teacher training and certification. (MSE)

The states in which educational policy issues are expected to be a topic of debate in upcoming gubernatorial races are listed, and the issues are outlined. (MSE)

The American Association of University Professors has voted to add four institutions to its list of 47 censured colleges and universities, remove the University of Maryland from the list when its Board of Regents adopts procedures to safeguard academic freedom and tenure, and re-examine Northwestern University's case. (MSE)

The University of California at Los Angeles has established an association for professors emeriti, their spouses, and surviving spouses that provides a setting and structure for continued participation in university life, including benefits such as office space, parking, and other campus privileges and a forum for communicating with the…

In the higher education finance debate between the incumbent governor and challenger, the ultimate issue is which candidate has identified the most pressing educational problem. Public school and community college teachers' salaries and phased-out community college tuition are at the controversy's center, dividing the Iowa State Education…

After many years of competition to represent teachers, the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers are finding common concerns and increasing numbers of cooperative ventures. Some local unions have merged; a general merger, in the interest of improving education, is being considered. (MSE)

Faculty unions are enticing new members and hoping to retain older ones with such extras as low-cost credit cards and insurance programs in addition to traditional collective bargaining functions. (MSE)

Many college and university faculty clubs have been scaled back or have been populated by increasingly greater proportions of alumni and other members. Some observers see loss of community and a common meeting ground for scholars. Many younger faculty see the clubs as relics and prefer to use their time for career development. (MSE)

The proposed merger of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers would create the nation's largest union and allow a united front for college faculty, increasing pressure for collective bargaining in more states. Opponents fear the merger would dilute concerns about education, particularly higher education, and that…