Faculty Issues

Elsevier’s acquisition of Bepress’s institutional repository platform is heralded as a smart move for the publisher, but not all of Bepress’s customers are impressed.

Montclair State strips adjunct of courses amid controversy over tweet wishing someone would shoot Trump. Trinity of Connecticut details students and gifts lost amid furor over professor's hashtag.

Byung-Chul Han’s In the Swarm: Digital Prospects describes how our society is well down the road toward a dramatically different, digital world. Much harder to discern, writes Scott McLemee, is where, or if, Han sees an off-ramp.

Education secretary plans to shake up student loan servicing again. The department remains committed to single website for student borrowers.

Academic leaders decry “ideological hit” on Center for Civil Rights at UNC Chapel Hill.

Setting goals can help students do better academically, and shorter-term, tangible goals are most effective, paper finds.

A $20 million project from National U seeks to combine adaptive courseware, predictive analytics and competency-based learning with a goal of better serving adult students.

Does group work really help all students? Margaret Finnegan explores how to help diverse learners navigate it successfully.