Cris Hassold, a professor at New College of Florida for 50 years, left a mark on her 31 favorite students. “I think about her almost every day,” one said. Cris Hassold, center, in an undated ...

Faculty members may be working harder than ever, but their pay has “barely budged” in four years, according to the American Association of University Professors’ annual Faculty Compensation Survey.

Academe has many rites of passage. Among the most prestigious — and treacherous — is applying for promotion to full professor. If you apply early and succeed, you are a “star” scholar, but if you fail ...