Faculty Issues

The University of California is considering a policy to limit “personal or collective opinions” on department websites. Some say it violates academic freedom.

The university’s public affairs school published poll results criticizing university leaders, who then insulted the poll’s methodology. The school fired back.

The university, the country’s largest four-year public institution by enrollment, didn’t concede to the union’s demand for a 12 percent raise this academic year.

Tricia Bertram Gallant argues that graduate programs and journals should routinely check dissertations and articles for plagiarism.

If conservatives and liberals start scouring their opponents’ academic publications for stolen ideas or phrases, nobody—even plagiarism experts—knows how much grist they will find.