Faculty Issues

College regularly criticized over aborted talk in 2017 again fails to let a speaker talk. Campus was unsettled over chemistry exam question on how to make gas used by Nazis. Middlebury is among several colleges where recent talks have been disrupted.

Scott McLemee reviews Nicholas Wolterstorff's Religion in the University.

Concordia U's Liberal Arts College, in Canada, wanted conservative scholar Harvey Mansfield to speak at an alumni gala -- until it didn't. But revoking Mansfield's invite didn't settle an internal debate.

Scholars say they thought a journal was run on Western standards of free expression, but they found Chinese government control instead.

General education is under threat, but it's worth the fight. Advocates share war and success stories at Inside Higher Ed event.

Criticism centers on source of funding and university governance.

Author discusses new book on the impact of the mass shooting and how survivors tried to honor the dead and prevent future tragedies.

At accrediting conference, panelists acknowledge that effort to measure learning outcomes has been a "hot mess" and that it's time for a better approach.