Faculty Issues

Piedmont University provost Daniel Silber resigned abruptly this week to protest proposed budget cuts and faculty layoffs, which he called “morally wrong.”

Twenty Hispanic-serving research universities are banding together to increase the number of Latino graduate students and professors at their institutions.

Scott McLemee begins a two-part look at Mark Coeckelbergh’s books Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and The Political Philosophy of AI.

PEN America and the American Association of Colleges and Universities come out once more against so-called divisive concepts bans, saying they represent the biggest threat of all to free speech.

Character judgments of our public intellectuals matter, Nadya Williams writes in the aftermath of Joshua Katz’s dismissal from Princeton.

Colleges must consider the steps they should take to prepare for a new type of learning, including teaching students how to cultivate virtual identities, write JT Torres and Marissa C. McKinley.

UMass-Boston aspires to be an antiracist institution. Some faculty members disagree with this, saying it’s limiting for a university. Others raise major concerns about the institution’s ongoing treatment of its Africana studies faculty.