After 42 years of academic life—not counting five years spent getting a Ph.D.—I am hanging it up. A while back, I concluded that the conversation that I would most dread overhearing would be an alumna ...

In the spring of 2015, I resolved to stop being an adjunct professor. I had been given three classes in the fall, but my request for three classes in the spring was met with an offer of only one class ...

Professor Michael McConnell is among a listing of American judges drawn from academe that appears in Richard A. Posner’s recent Chronicle of Higher Education article “Academe and the Judiciary at Odds ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is considering tracking workforce data on nonbinary employees, and last year, it announced an updated discrimination charge intake form that includes a ...

In this special report devoted to gender, we look beyond the data. Not long ago, women were the focus of most gender discussions in academe. But now it’s more complicated, with each sex drawing ...

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