Faculty

The accountability movement has hit human resources, as departments develop new ways to measure performance -- and potentially productivity -- of campus faculty and staff.

Professor at Columbia College loses institution's support for her conference and could lose her tenure too.

U. of California at Davis asks faculty to forfeit stipends they get for leading freshman seminars, generating some givebacks and some resentment.

In podcast interviews, winners of annual national contest describe their pedagogical approaches.

It's been more than a decade since Cary Nelson summed up his views on problems facing higher education in Manifesto of a Tenured Radical. As Nelson would be the first to admit, the issues he identified in that book have not changed -- or at least not in the direction he would want.

AAUP finds "especially egregious" violations of faculty rights in dismissals of 55 professors at Clark Atlanta in February.

Scholars document the gender gap in cooking, cleaning and laundry among scientists -- and suggest a new employee benefit may be key to the advancement of women.

Husband-and-wife historians at Earlham have spent more than three decades sharing a job.

New report finds "generally healthy, constructive" governance roles, but some wonder whether the right people were asked.

Carmen Twillie Ambar is president of a small college in Pennsylvania -- and the mother of three toddlers.