As American Higher Education contracts and reorganizes to reflect the new reality...

Lay offs take faculty by surprise;

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/03/18/faculty-members-struggling-colleges-say-they-were-blindsided-cuts

Raises run around 2.1% for all faculty:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/03/17/study-tenure-track-professors-saw-21-average-raise-year

And some PA institutions seek to break free of their anemic state system:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/03/21/universities-want-out-pennsylvanias-higher-ed-system

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