We must protect the value universities offer as spaces for mobilizing against injustice and critiquing ongoing forms of oppression. 

The University’s College of Arts & Sciences has hired 55 new professors for the upcoming academic year, an unprecedentedly large number of faculty compared to previous years. 

On April 19, over 100 members of the Arts & Sciences community gathered in Umrath Lounge for the Arts & Sciences Council’s annual Faculty and Staff Award Ceremony.

Here is my point: such a facility should not only be available and free to employees, there should be incentives in place to encourage its regular use. A healthy workforce is in the University’s best interest.

G’Ra Asim, part of WashU’s first race and ethnicity cluster hire, is equally comfortable in front of an undergraduate classroom and at center stage of a punk rock concert.

With a hybrid semester, faculty members had a decision to make: To teach in-person or stay fully remote. With course quality, safety and other personal considerations to take into account, we explore how professors made that choice.

Washington University implemented a hiring freeze to conserve University resources in the face of the COVID-19 emergency.

Only employees of Washington University who perform essential work requiring a physical presence on campus should come to work until April 6, Chancellor Andrew Martin wrote in an email to faculty and staff March 16.

The sociology department hired three new faculty for this semester, nearly doubling the size of the department that only returned to campus last fall.

After 17 years at Washington University, Jill Carnaghi left her role as assistant vice chancellor for students and director of campus life late last June.