Category Archives: Faculty

North Carolina: Bizarre attack on professors’ car

Daily Reflector: Message left at scene of Overlook Drive fires: ECU professor’s vehicle is one of two burned

“Wrong house sorry.”

The phrase, sloppily scribbled in blue paint, stained the sidewalk leading to the front stoop of the North Overlook Drive home Chris Belfiore and his East Carolina University roommates rent.

UK: Lecturers to get counselling helpline

The Guardian: Lecturers to get counselling helpline

The first dedicated national counselling telephone support line for university and college lecturers is being set up to meet an increased demand for such a service.

Faculty Moderates

Inside Higher Ed: Faculty Moderates

New analysis suggests that the biggest trend in professorial politics is a shift to the center in many disciplines

Survey: British academics over 50 have lower morale than younger colleagues

UCU: Over 50s have lowest morale and are most keen to quit academe

Age discrimination is rife across our universities. Staff aged over 50 are the unhappiest in their jobs and almost half (43 per cent) would quit now if they could.