Survey finds 2.2 percent median salary increase for tenure-track faculty members at four-year colleges and universities in 2015-16, but wide variation by discipline. A new assistant professor of computer science at a public four-year college or university in 2015-16 earns, on average, a little more than $85,000. A full professor of history -- likely with 20-plus more years of teaching experience -

While the students rated their instructors with non-Asian last names consistently higher than those with Asian last names, the gaps were the largest in the South. Rankings of instructors with Asian male last names in the West were the closest to those with other names. Subtirelu then looked at the comments students post, and noticed a pattern in which many students introduce remarks (frequently pr

A math scholar at Ohio State University finds a path to the tenure track with massive open online courses. When Jim Fowler becomes an assistant professor of mathematics at Ohio State University this fall, he can thank his massive open online courses -- and former president E. Gordon Gee. Fowler came to Ohio State in 2009 as a visiting assistant professor decidedly off the tenure track. When he fin