Faculty Issues

Scott McLemee reviews Alex de Waal's Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine.

Journal article that was withdrawn last year amid intense debate is republished by the National Association of Scholars.

Deborah Parker describes how it feels to be an Asian faculty member in Italian, a field in which there are very few minorities, and how greater diversification offers a way forward.

The 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment has long been considered a window into the horrors ordinary people can inflict on one another, but new interviews with participants and reconsideration of archival records shed more light on the findings.

Key Education Department official says innovators in higher ed should not be held back by their accreditors.

Study finds recommendation letters for academic jobs signal doubt about female applicants more than they do for men, with real, negative effects on their job chances.

While external peer reviews of scholarship provide the benefit of both expertise and objectivity, peer reviews of teaching often suffer from the lack of both, argues Pamela E. Barnett.