Karen Weaver claims that college conference realignments are driven primarily by television revenue, particularly from football, and warns that budget disparities within conferences could widen existing divides between schools.
Peter Eckel writes that University presidents must actively collaborate with faculty and faculty governance bodies during a crisis to ensure the best outcome for the institution.
Jonathan Zimmerman argues that the push to weaken tenure will hurt all professors, and warns that these efforts can be turned on conservative professors, even though they are being used against progressive professors currently.