Faculty Issues

Scott McLemee reviews new and forthcoming titles from university presses that take up these interconnected subjects.

New study of faculty motivation for teaching says certain kinds of motivation -- intrinsic and believing that teaching is important -- are linked to use of best teaching practices, across institution types. Rewards and guilt appear to have no bearing on best practices.

Budget bill would increase size of maximum Pell Grant by $175, add $3 billion to NIH and preserve humanities endowment.

Plan would link number of university spots to labor market needs.

Public colleges and universities that were forced to host white supremacists (who lacked any ties to the institution) are now looking at ways to restrict certain events, but to avoid doing so based on content.

A professional association of writers that supports hundreds of creative writing departments just fired its executive director of three decades, with no public explanation.

Hanna Holborn Gray, who led Yale and the University of Chicago in eras of overt sexism, discusses her new memoir -- and her advice for a new generation of women rising through the ranks.

What if we looked at not how much students learned from us, Paul F. Diehl asks, but how much we as instructors learned from students?