Faculty Issues

Jill Parrott shatters the myth that you either have writing talent or you don’t.

American Historical Association sees 12 percent decline in openings, for fifth straight year of downward trend.

Students outside the U.S. doubt reliability of instruction in English that is not from native speakers, study finds.

Annual survey finds that students want to and increasingly are doing so, many times related to diversity.

Fordham’s English department is giving those finishing doctorates $4,500 each to help with the many costs associated with finding a position.

Scott McLemee reviews The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms, in which social networks, big data, memes and the like are presented as extreme cases of the creative and disruptive potentials or our tool-oriented species.

Blackboard is getting ready to add a tool to its learning management system that would provide grading guidance based on algorithms, but some faculty members question need.

Formal education has led to a lack of learning in a number of ways, argues Susan D. Blum, and the one change that can make a big difference is getting rid of grades.