Faculty Issues

Printer closures and paper shortages create scheduling headaches for academic authors and staff at university presses.

New cookbook from the Modern Language Association celebrates the subtle and not-so-subtle links between literature, food and drink.

Scott McLemee reviews Anthony Bonato's Limitless Minds: Interviews With Mathematicians.

Authors discuss new book about the diversity and strength of religion in academe -- as well as some of the tensions.

Historians and language professors discuss strategies for improving advising and graduate education in general at recent annual meetings.

Paul S. Merritt provides an insider’s perspective as to how colleges can structure such teaching positions to provide the best experience for both students and faculty members.

To answer that question, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt tells a pedagogical story in two parts.

The tide may be turning for the Chinese government-funded centers of Chinese language and cultural education as universities grapple with calls from Washington to close the institutes down. Over past year at least 10 have closed or announced plans to close.