Faculty Issues

Classrooms are filled with students who need to think and talk about gender violence, and professors have a unique opportunity to help that happen, Heather Hewett writes.

Attacks on institutional autonomy, academic freedom and tenure, and diversity initiatives undermine the climate for innovation, Michael Lanford and William G. Tierney write.

This week looms large, with a possible no-confidence vote for university administrators and public dissent within the graduate student workers’ union.

New guidelines aim to make peer review more inclusive while also acknowledging the stresses on the peer-review process, Andrew Berzanskis, Jane Bunker and Rebecca Colesworthy write.

Philip Weinstein considers what STEM can’t teach us—and literature can.

Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Chicago is protesting a retired Israeli general teaching a counterterrorism course about Israel. An Israel-defending organization wants Chicago to condemn a broader campaign.

Ruth Simmons left Prairie View A&M early over limits to her authority in hiring decisions. Deferring such powers to new presidents is a common practice but often not a set policy.