Social Sciences / Education

Cal State Los Angeles professors vote to require all students to take a course in race or ethnicity, but fail to adopt proposal that course be taught in ethnic studies department.

As students' adherence to the Middlebury honor code wanes, the entire economics department will start proctoring exams to catch cheaters.

For women, and especially disadvantaged women, what they study may be more important than where they study -- if they aspire to close the pay gap with men.

McGill professor -- petitioned by students to extend a paper deadline -- makes them laugh while turning them down.

Have you ever wished you could tell a student what you really think? One professor recently did so, and regrets the way he did it (if not the substance).

More than 90 percent of students admit to using their digital devices for non-class activities during class, study finds.

Students at major research university learn more when their instructors are off the tenure track than when they are on it, new study finds.

Florida Atlantic rehires instructor at center of controversial class exercise involving the name "Jesus." University reconsiders ban on exercise. Faculty Senate finds administrators "dismally failed" on academic freedom.

Professor sets off furor with comment on Twitter about obese Ph.D. applicants.

AAUP's annual survey shows modest pay gains, but low rate of inflation means that many full-time faculty members have a bit more spending power. Salaries and raises are larger at private than at public institutions.