Humanities

Oberlin once again changes its stance toward Joy Karega, suspending the professor pending an investigation into her remarks on social media.

After an alleged harasser holds on to a powerful academic position, professors try to limit his influence, in part by excluding his work from their syllabi. Is that the right strategy?

Academics fact-check the persistent idea, promoted at GOP convention, that liberal professors politically indoctrinate their students.

Should an HBCU founded by black Civil War veterans shutter its history department, against the recommendation of a faculty committee?

With lawsuit seeking the right to keep guns out of their classrooms, three UT Austin professors try to reshape the debate over campus carry.

New analysis suggests that one region is responsible for much of the national imbalance in the ideological leanings of faculty members.

At the University at Buffalo and the U of Virginia, professors fear that too many requirements and not enough thought about them may detract from students' learning. Both move toward more thematic approaches to general education.

New analysis shows dramatic decreases in open positions for professors. Health professions faculty jobs, once equal in number to those in humanities, now far outnumber them.

New book unveils faculty-led effort to chart concepts and competencies students should learn in six academic disciplines, with plan to create standardized tests. Will faculty members warm to this version of "learning outcomes"?

Scholars at conference on whether liberal arts need saving focus on evolving threats, including diminishing attention spans, mounting consumerism and a desire by administrators to quantify everything.