Faculty Issues

The pay gap between men and women in academic science is bigger than it is in industry, according to a new analysis of federal survey data. What might it take to close that gap?

Author discusses book on higher education history and settler colonialism.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University strengthens its masking policy one day after a department chair quits over it. The professor says the policy update still leaves professors on the hook for enforcement, with no clear recourse.

While long resisting grade inflation, Michael S. Berger found that without the normal in-person teaching to help motivate students during COVID, they struggled to meet the rigor he demanded.

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education says threats against scholars’ speech rights increasingly come from students -- and from the political left.

Student workers at Hamilton College seek the right to collective bargaining.

Diversity, equity and inclusion should be a required part of engineering schools’ curricula, argues Alec D. Gallimore.