Humanities

A new report from American Academy of Arts and Sciences makes a data-based case for building U.S. capacity for foreign languages.

Is “identity liberalism,” widespread on college campuses, to blame for Donald Trump’s rise? Scholars are divided.

New book argues that sometimes faculty members of color going up for tenure are judged by a higher standard than are their white peers.

New website seeks to register professors accused of liberal bias and “anti-American values.”

Rutgers places adjunct on leave for Twitter comments that he says were modeled on (and a critique of) the pro-gun rhetoric of the president-elect -- and that he says never should have been taken literally.

In Trump's win, professors see threats to science and academic freedom -- but also an opportunity to connect with students.

Instructor says he was fired -- shortly after he complained to accreditor -- for refusing to water down his curriculum and requirements. Another instructor quit rather than comply.

Writers love to write about professors. With most professors now off the tenure track, will these kinds of characters start to appear more in fiction? Nathan Hill's new book, The Nix, could be a start.

Princeton general-education proposal would require all students -- even those already proficient in a foreign language -- to study a language other than English. Most of the shrinking number of institutions with requirements let students test out of them.

An NYU professor who used an anonymous Twitter account to criticize the university, trigger warnings, safe spaces and the ‘academic left’ is on paid leave days after his identity was revealed. What happened?