Faculty Issues

Scott McLemee reviews some of the books now being published by university presses, many of which seem to predict our world in the upcoming decade.

Oregon College of Art and Craft will stop degree programs at end of semester.

Spurred by Khashoggi killing, MIT says it will strengthen review of collaborations in countries where governments are engaged in human rights violations but won't override faculty prerogative or terminate existing Saudi-sponsored projects.

The smallest art colleges are struggling in a fiercely competitive market. Why are they showing such signs of stress? And can larger liberal arts colleges learn from their successes and missteps?

Tenure is again at risk in Iowa. Some scholars say legislators should study their own history, since a case during World War II is to many experts a classic example of why protecting academic freedom matters.

Higher education institutions aren't easily disentangled from politics, and to claim otherwise is not only false but dangerous, argue Inger Bergom and Spencer Piston.

Scholar at University of Cambridge hopes to use her naked body to go beyond what she can do in academic writing.