How do we measure faculty productivity? And should we?

A new study suggests that queer professors are more often hit with claims of bias than straight professors.

If you’ve gotten a new academic job, when do you move?

Sabbaticals are fabulous – but they don’t just happen. You have to apply, and Nels P. Highberg offers some advice.

To whom are we, as educators, accountable? Lee Skallerup Bessette looks at the situation in Texas to begin to answer.

Happy fourth of July to all my US readers! I hope you’re having a lovely, restorative day.

Bad Female Academic tells the story of being a mother in academia.

Some advice on getting a job in philosophy.

Naomi Schaefer Riley excerpts her new book, The Faculty Lounges: and Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Paid For to argue that eliminating tenure has an economic upside.

It looks like the whole “are graduate students workers or students” and therefore “can they unionize” fight is taking an interesting turn with some rulings by the National Labor Relations Board.

John Marsh argues that pitting social services against education (which many state legislatures are doing) means that no matter which side “wins,” the same people lose.

A wave of retirements will decimate the federal government in the next five years, and Congress held hearings to figure out how to attract new graduates. (Personally, I’m skeptical of all predicted retirement waves that will supposedly create a vacuum eager young things can fill. Where have we heard that one before?)

Tenured Radical and Dean Dad weigh in on the question of fundraising priorities.

First rule of any office: Respect and be nice to the staff.

A tale of three job search seasons: One person’s anonymous experience.