Faculty Issues

AAUP, with some dissent, lifts censure of Illinois over Salaita case. Spalding U and Community College of Aurora are added for what association sees as violations of academic freedom.

Essay argues the age of big data is the time for professors to reconsider their reliance on the anti-plagiarism business.

Lawmakers who think higher education is broken -- and that “innovation” and more assessment can fix it -- would learn a lot from seeing the learning process up close and personal, Bernard Fryshman writes.

Despite recent criticism of student reviews of faculty members, there is a system that’s working, AAUP conference is told.

Move -- by 2-to-1 margin -- follows several years of heated debates at association’s annual meetings.

MIT students reported that taking course online -- instead of same course on campus -- was less stressful than their in-person classes.

A dispute about a sociology test question on slave families ended in a lecturer's termination this spring at the University of Tennessee.

Scholarly database JSTOR explores -- through a white paper and prototypes -- how to redesign the scholarly monograph for digital reading.