Faculty Issues

Will a new series from Yale University Press aimed at young readers (and the occasional grown-up) catch fire? Scott McLemee takes a look.

Citing demographic and pedagogic trends, growing number of colleges rename departments "world" or "modern" languages.

Author of new book discusses an offbeat tradition at Miami University.

Media studies professor says traditional journals and presses need to become more open and dynamic if they want to avoid becoming dead on their feet.

A new book maps the corporate genome of composition studies. Scott McLemee has a look.

The way professors prefer to teach may not match the way students can gain the most, writes Robert J. Sternberg.

Brendan Boyle considers the fictions of summer reading programs.

The leaders of two student surveys -- used by hundreds of colleges but questioned lately by some researchers -- defend their projects.