Faculty Issues

W. Russell Neuman explores the impact of undergraduate foreign language requirements and finds that they seem to have little to no meaningful effect on students’ proficiency.

Study examines traits British students like -- and don’t like -- in instructors.

A professor discusses how he turned to his colleagues for help answering the question -- and turned the results into a book.

Data from 700,000 classes show digital course materials have gotten only slightly more accessible to students with disabilities over the last five years.

Deb S. Reisinger makes the case that intercultural perspectives can and should inform the teaching of academic content in many disciplines, making language study not only relevant but even indispensable.

U of Illinois research institute agreed to host James Watson. But it called off the event after faculty members cited his comments on race, intelligence and geography.

In Citizen Spies, Joshua Reeves demonstrates that the surveillance systems established in America since the Sept. 11 attacks depend largely on habits that have been a long time in forming, writes Scott McLemee.

Graduate student who is subject of Title IX critic Laura Kipnis's new book sues for defamation and invasion of privacy.