Faculty Issues

Stanford moves ahead with idea of making time to degree much shorter and reconsidering the nature of doctoral education.

Given how busy professors are, it makes sense to link outcomes assessment to grading, rather than create redundancy by piling the latter on top of the former, Mark Salisbury writes.

Rep. Michael Honda and Sen. Jack Reed argue that schools and colleges need to work together to ensure that school leaders, and especially instructors, are ready for the classroom.

Faculty members have more to learn than they might expect from those who work with the youngest students, writes David L. Kirp.

At universities, teaching isn't highly valued, but at bachelor's institutions, research is highly valued, survey finds. And that research had better not be digital. Study also finds senior professors dissatisfied with academic leaders and students.

Seeing strength in numbers, adjunct faculty from across the Washington, D.C. region hope to form a metropolitan union to fight for equity in pay, benefits and more.

Youngstown State limits part-timers' hours to avoid requirements of new health care law.