Rice University is in a hiring sprint, beefing up its faculty as undergraduate enrollment climbs and research ambitions ...

One of my doctoral students just got a tenure-track assistant professorship. That’s excellent for her, but a decade ago, it wouldn’t have rated mention in a newspaper column. Of course, that was ...

At the institution where I work, my job title of lecturer marks me as being non-tenure track, a status that I think earns me the right to title this piece as I have. I do love being off the tenure ...

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, almost three-quarters of instructors in America’s higher education system were contingent faculty. Colleges and universities have increasingly relied on them as a ...

Armenian preceptor Lisa Gulesserian interrupted Tuesday’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting to call on Harvard faculty to support an end to time caps, after she was awarded a prize for excellence ...

The data tell the story: From 1975 to 1999, the proportion of full-time faculty members in non-tenure-track positions increased to 28 percent from 19 percent. Recent estimates suggest that 45 percent ...

Even if tenure is a few years off, new tenure-track faculty can take a few important steps right now, writes Tanya Golash-Boza. Securing a tenure-track position in this academic market is difficult.

Tufts Medical School professors won a landmark tenure case, but protections for longtime professors are still waning.

Becoming a university professor requires a lot of work for very little financial reward, compared to most other professions. In STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields, the minimum ...