Admissions Offices Scramble to Comply With New Overtime Rule

An update to labor law requires colleges to give raises to some employees in the time-intensive field, pay them overtime, or scale back their hours.

What You Need to Know About the Overtime Rule and Higher Ed

A change in federal labor law that takes effect in December 2016 has colleges and universities scrambling to sort out which salaried employees will be due extra pay if they work more than 40 hours in a week. Here's a look at how colleges are coping.

Labor

Pennsylvania Professors Dig In for a Long Fight

On the second day of a faculty strike at the 14 state-owned colleges, some professors and students were voicing concerns about how a prolonged walkout might affect them.

The Ticker

Board Orders Audit of All Flights by Iowa State U.'s President

It was revealed this month that he had repeatedly flown a university airplane to a vacation home in North Carolina.

The Ticker

NCAA Cites U. of Louisville for 4 Major Rules Violations

The association found, among other things, that a top basketball official had given players "impermissible inducements" and the head coach had failed to monitor his staff.

The Chronicle Review

Philosophy Beyond the Academy

Philosophy is multifarious, with many regional inflections, a new book argues.

Lingua Franca

Orgies, Convoys, and Precision in Word Meanings

The unlikely topic of how many participants it takes to make an orgy leads Geoff Pullum to reflect on the remarkable failure of human languages to provide for exactness of meaning.

Vitae

Why Attend Conferences as a Freelance Academic?

Here are some reasons to go if you can afford it.

ProfHacker

What We Learned From Co-Teaching

Maha Bali, Hoda Mostafa, and Sherif Osman reflect on their work at the American University in Cairo.