Faculty Issues

Michael Roth considers Steven Pinker's paean to progress.

At Utah State, one professor is out and reforms are pledged for a piano program where misconduct was tolerated.

After two congressmen write to Texas A&M raising concerns that the Chinese-government backed Confucius Institutes are platforms for political propaganda and espionage, Texas A&M says it will close them.

Florida Atlantic professor faces opposition from students after his essays blaming "black supremacy" for slavery and generally defending the Confederacy surface.

Two professors resign from MassArt following harassment allegations. Are art schools taking a harder line against professors in era of Me Too? Are academic and artistic freedom at risk?

Scott McLemee explores Barbara Ehrenreich’s Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer.

Tens of thousands of Iranian students studied in the U.S. in the 1970s. New book tells how they helped unsettle the diplomatic relationship between Washington and Tehran in lead-up to Iranian Revolution.

Could a one-day walkout at Loyola Chicago set the stage for other campuses?