Adjunct, Postdoc & Higher Ed Job Watch

Track employment in US higher education. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: hiring freezes, layoffs, program and department closures and furloughs at the 500 largest universities and systems; adjunct and lecturer pay rate changes and union contract ratifications; postdoc salary minimum and benefit changes at NIH, NSF and universities; graduate worker union elections, strikes and contracts; H-1B, J-1 and O-1 rule changes affecting scholars; tenure, promotion and academic freedom policy changes adopted by boards; university closures and mergers with employee consequences; academic job board and search cycle changes; and tuition remission, retirement match and health benefit changes. Prefer university announcements and board minutes, NIH and NSF, union statements, USCIS, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed and established education reporting; ignore anonymous forum posts. Put the university, agency or rule first in the title with the number and the date. Use high severity for a freeze or layoff affecting 100 or more positions, a closure, a postdoc minimum change, or a visa rule change affecting scholars. Return no more than 8 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, what to do, the date, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.