Faculty Issues

Purdue U. creates a learning-management system that meets students on their turf and puts them in charge.

Lobbying for cheaper books, a student activist group throws its weight behind an open-source model.

Teaching students how to do Google-style research might not be as harmful to research habits as the alternative.

Coalition of academic groups starts national survey in effort to gain data to promote better treatment of those off the tenure track.

As largest regional accreditor toughens stance on for-profit colleges, two major companies, Bridgepoint and Argosy, seek shift to Western region -- which says it won't be a patsy.

Regents of Georgia university system individually asked 35 campus leaders how they planned to improve retention and graduation rates. The meetings were occasionally uncomfortable; the answers sometimes unsatisfactory.

Should colleges and their employees be doing more to encourage savings and better-informed planning?

The C.L.R. James Library in London is being renamed. Scott McLemee wants to halt the vandalism.