Faculty Issues

Juliet Shields hopes the dismantling of tenure seen at Emporia State and elsewhere might give way to a better system for protecting faculty rights—unionization.

In another development, six states sue the Biden administration over the loan-forgiveness plan.

“… is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him!” A Thomas Schelling quote prompts Julius Nagy to reflect on the value of a liberal arts education.

Faculty members at the University of Arizona say they’ve been blocked from service on a key committee because they’ve criticized the institution in the past. What’s going on?

Wiley withdraws more than 1,300 titles from a large multidisciplinary ebook collection for libraries as fall classes begin, hindering students’ access to affordable learning materials.

A student who follows that advice will most likely end up as lost as they were before—just inside a slightly narrower wilderness, argue Christopher Rea and Thomas S. Mullaney.

Citing new and existing state laws, University of Idaho tells employees what they can (and mostly can’t) say and do regarding abortion. The institution says it may also cease to provide birth control.