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The union representing California State University faculty reached a tentative agreement with the university system late Monday, putting an end to a planned five-day strike after one day.“In case anyone forgot, STRIKES WORK! After months of negotiations and two strike actions, our movement for a #betterCSU has paid off!” the union announced on Instagram.The agreement, which must be ratified by union members, includes higher salary floors for the lowest-paid workers, safer workplaces and an expansion of parental leave.…

The union representing 29,000 faculty members at California State University, the nation’s largest four-year public university system, is set to walk off the job for five days beginning Monday, disrupting the first week of the spring semester for tens of thousands of students.The systemwide strike of professors, lecturers, counselors, librarians and coaches, who are demanding a 12% wage increase and other benefits, is the first ever across all of CSU’s 23 campuses. It is expected to add to the confusion of the first days…

At 52, I am abundantly educated, with two bachelor’s degrees, a teaching credential, a master’s degree and a doctorate completed while raising three children. Yet my daughters can earn more money than me in their 20s. I am a California State University professor. And one of the higher paid, privileged ones at that.I knew becoming an educator would not make me wealthy. As I worked diligently for years to earn tenure and promotion to the rank of associate professor and then the rank of professor, I did my job joyfully.…

California State University faculty walked out of classrooms Monday during the crucial end-of-term time, demanding higher pay and marking a high-profile escalation in contract negotiations between their union and the nation’s largest four-year public higher education system.Faculty — including professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches — at four campuses will each participate in a one-day strike. At Cal Poly Pomona on Monday, hundreds of faculty members crowded on sidewalks near the main entrances on…

University of Cincinnati Assistant Professor Kathleen Grogan says postdoctoral researchers feel less discouraged in pursuing a faculty position when they get feedback about their applications from peers. Credit: Andrew Higley/UC Finding a full-time faculty job can be a daunting challenge for doctoral graduates. University of Cincinnati anthropologist Kathleen Grogan says postdoctoral researchers can benefit from having peers…

Alexa Joubin sees both danger and opportunity in the new technology. Credit: Kate Woods/GW Today The academic landscape shifted dramatically in November 2022 with the launch of ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI. ChatGPT is artificial intelligence software that can write essays, poems, code and perform other tasks traditionally done by humans. …

As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe in 2020, calls began to ring out for universities to swiftly address concerns that interruptions to research, closure of schools and day cares, and other disruptions could widen existing inequities in academia and make it harder for women and researchers from other underrepresented groups to stay afloat. Many universities in the United States and elsewhere went on to institute new policies to support early-career faculty,…

More women scientists work as professors today than at any time in history. But they’re still underpaid relative to their male colleagues with similar publication records, according to a study of more than 2300 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) faculty members. The findings are “concerning,” says Bruce Weinberg, a professor of economics at Ohio State University, Columbus, who has studied gender bias in STEM but wasn’t involved in the new study. “One wants people to be…

The shape of U.S. research is at stake as Congress tries to reconcile competing versions of a massive bill, 2 years in the making, aimed at bolstering U.S. competitiveness with China in research and high-tech manufacturing. The bills would not only authorize spending hundreds of billions of additional dollars on research, but also set out new policies on the government’s approach to supporting science. One controversial provision in the Senate version, the U.S. Innovation and…