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Faculty-Pay Survey Records the Largest One-Year Drop Ever
Average full-time faculty salaries decreased by 5 percent in the 2021-22 academic year when adjusted for inflation, the largest single-year…
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3 Things We Learned From the Latest Federal Employment and Enrollment Report
America’s colleges and universities last October enrolled the smallest share of graduating high-school seniors in over a decade. According to…
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Higher Ed’s Labor Shortage Is Easing. But These Parts of Its Work Force Are Struggling to Return to Normal.
Recently revised employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics bore good news for higher ed: The shortfall in…
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Higher Ed’s Labor Force Is Nearly Back to Full Strength. Thank the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Higher ed had little to celebrate last November when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its employment estimates for the…
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Higher Ed’s Jobs Recovery Sputters
While higher education recovered, in the first six months of this year, nearly half of the cumulative jobs it had…
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The Scholar With the Skeleton Key
The idea had been forming on the edges of Jessica Calarco’s mind for some time. So when she got a…
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Can These Degree Programs, Under Assault for a Decade, Survive a Pandemic?
As universities and colleges reckon with the financial fallout spurred by the pandemic, some have elected to terminate or phase…
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