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An Agency That Supports Health-Care Improvement Cuts Off Grant Funding
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sent researchers letters last week saying they wouldn’t receive long-awaited funding continuations. The agency cited the “best interest of the federal government.”
Female Academics ‘Increasingly Delay Motherhood’ Until Age 35
“Pronounced penalties” for those early-career staff with children may explain why Ph.D.s postpone becoming parents, a recent study finds.
Meet the Externs: How Faculty Use Workplace Experience to Help Students
Faculty-to-industry bridge programs have been popular for years, but this summer the professor-externs are focused on bringing AI skills and understanding back to their students.
A Course Refresh This Summer
Summers traditionally bring the opportunity to refresh and update the courses we teach, and they also bring the chance to look afresh at the course of our own personal careers.
The Self-Declared Pseudosabbatical
By treating breaks in the academic calendar more intentionally, faculty can carve out informal periods of time away between once-every-seven-years sabbaticals.
13 Effective Strategies for Better Faculty Hiring and Retention
Here’s what we learned from analyzing projects developed and assessed under the umbrella of NSF ADVANCE.
Admin, Staff Raises Outpace Inflation While Faculty Salaries Lag
New data from CUPA-HR shows that all higher ed employees earn less than they did prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.