Faculty Issues

The racial and wealth inequality built into our nation's most viable system of opportunity -- the education sector -- should be at the forefront of any policy conversation, argues Stella M. Flores.

Community colleges cannot lay off faculty members and then hire adjuncts to teach their courses, the Illinois Supreme Court decided.

Authors withdraw controversial article concluding that working with a female mentor might hurt young scientists' careers.

Scholars pledge not to speak at University of Mississippi until it reinstates a colleague who publicly questioned why his chair rejected a grant, allegedly for political reasons.

The work we do now sits squarely in the middle of what so ails our nation and what is required to fix it, writes Matthew C. Moen.

As instructors, we can underestimate how much informal, class-adjacent social interactions encourage students to participate in class, write Zachary Nowak and Sarah Bramao-Ramos.

What data do we need, asks Justin Westerfield, to make an equitable contingency plan for assessing and grading students in the future?