Faculty Issues

Yale Law School’s tiger mother drama lives on. It might even have nine lives, depending on how far a new lawsuit alleging that Yale law ensnared two students in a vendetta against Amy Chua goes.

Christopher Schaberg and his students sketch a portrait of the college classroom after months of COVID.

Successful connections between students and mentors often require careful thinking about which individuals are likely to be a good pair. Follow these 10 matchmaking tips.

A dozen University of Michigan professors argue that the controversy over a blackface Othello is more about teaching preparation than free expression, and that better university training and protocols could have lessened the fallout for everyone involved.

Iowa State’s Faculty Senate approved a compromise on a diversity requirement to comply with a new state law against the teaching of “divisive concepts.” Some say it’s time to move forward, but other professors say this is no victory.

A research center focuses on how institutions, including colleges, betray their constituents—and how institutions can act with courage instead.

It’s fine for faculty to choose to record lectures for students, but systems more or less foisted on them from the top down pose serious threats to academic freedom, argues Michael Schwalbe.