Why the provost's job is the toughest on many campuses; a university wants $2 million its researchers won; students' classroom complaints; and more.
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By Kathryn Palmer
Six current and former graduate students filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Illinois at Chicago, its Title IX investigators, and the accused professor, Paul Schewe. “Nobody is safe in the #MeToo era,” he says. (PREMIUM)
At small colleges the average tenure of chief academic officers is getting shorter. The ones working at regional publics are experiencing similar pressures. (PREMIUM)
An engineering team at the University of Florida won a prestigious federal competition. A university policy — created after the team racked up an earlier win — states that the money belongs to the institution. (PREMIUM)
The median pay for full-time instructors in 2017-18 was only slightly higher at public doctoral institutions than it was at public associate institutions. (PREMIUM)
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