Faculty Issues

First Colorado State, now Harvard. Job announcements favoring recent Ph.Ds. at these universities spur discussion and anger.

The Gates Foundation is ponying up to learn if MOOCs could work for remedial students, a departure from the current slate of MOOCs. Developmental education experts say the idea could work, but others remain skeptical.

Harvard students -- just like Lance Armstrong -- have already reached a summit, so why do they feel the need to break the rules? That's what happens when we make outcomes more important than the experience, Steve Gimbel argues.

The following individuals have recently been awarded tenure by their colleges and universities: Francis Marion University --Richard A. Almeida, political...

At European gathering of international educators, the appropriate place of English-language courses in the curriculum comes under scrutiny.

History association urges departments to be much more detailed than many have been about doctoral job placement. Will programs listen?

English department originally restricted search to those who earned Ph.D.s in 2010 or later -- a limit that many said discriminated against adjuncts and older scholars.

A Congressional committee argues over whether graduate students at private universities should be allowed to unionize.