Faculty Issues

Students at Northwestern want controversial visiting scholar who muses on race, intelligence and beauty, and who has been accused by colleagues of "bad science," off their campus.

Legislation in California concerning ESL instruction reflects a huge lack of understanding of what it takes for the human brain to learn another language, writes Parviz Parsafar.

Professor at UC Irvine takes to Twitter to demand action on her complaint against a fellow instructor, whom she views as a harasser.

Organizers of a student labor union at Grinnell College have said they are ending their effort to expand, fearing that protections for other units could be rolled back.

Health sciences final exam question on gangs, race and graffiti rubs some the wrong way at Cal State Long Beach. Now the professor is under investigation.

Scott McLemee reviews Jeffrey Melnick's Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family.

Catholic University says tenured faculty member admitted to sexual relationship with graduate student he hired as assistant. UPDATE: The professor responds.

University of California System is playing hardball with Elsevier in negotiations that could transform the way it pays to read and publish research. But does the UC system have the clout to pull it off?