Faculty Issues

Report says movement to boycott represents challenge to academic freedom in the U.S., and urges trustees to take action. Critics say report is a challenge to academic freedom.

Effort gains backers and appears to build momentum, but some scientists worry that political fallout may not be what organizers want.

While Calvin College seeks to ensure that the values that guide its teaching and scholarship will be Christian, it still encourages critical thinking, writes Michael K. Le Roy.

Hitler's American Model: the United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman, brings into full view the U.S. Immigration Act of 1924's place in the context of Nazi theory and practice, writes Scott McLemee.

College will investigate those who engaged in "acts of disruption and violence."

Why are freedom of speech and academic freedom so absolute for Charles Murray yet so conditional for students, asks John Patrick Leary, who writes in defense of the protesters at Middlebury College.

Study details tool to help professors measure how much active learning is happening in their classrooms.

Howard V. Hendrix explains a new way he plans to deal with what some students characterize as the stress of his too-high demands in class.