Looking for a method to help discourage students from cheating? Consider “Doing Honest Work in College” a text by C. Lipson, published by the University of Chicago Press. Several schools have recently used the book as a mandatory first year student reader with success.

A group of part-time instructors wanted to form a union for all the common reasons. They wanted to negotiate from a position of strength with their employer, George Washington University (DC), over wages, benefits, and work conditions and job protections. So they did what others before them have done. The defined the group of employees they wanted to organize. They found a national organization to support their effort and affiliate with if successful in forming a union. And they held an election.

Did the University of Pennsylvania ignore complaints about a researcher’s sexual harassment because of his reputation and grant funding? That was the claim recently settled out of court between the school and one alleged victim.