Faculty Issues

Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos has family and likely financial connections to The College Fix, a conservative news site that often criticizes liberal bias in higher education.

The 90-year-old university press will close its doors this year after Duquesne decided to cut its funding.

Colleges will undoubtedly face more student protests, write Nancy Thomas and Adam Gismondi. How can educators leverage this historic opportunity and encourage constructive, inclusive political learning and participation?

At a time when some colleges have eliminated the discipline, a historically black college is restoring the major.

Activism and charged debate on campuses are certainly not new, but the intensity of the vitriol we’re seeing puts institutional leaders in unfamiliar territory, writes Kevin Kruger.

We need systematic, coordinated institutional efforts to chart a viable future for the humanities in the 21st century, argues Robert Frodeman.

Some education researchers have begun downloading federal data amid questions about the new administration's commitment to continuing transparency efforts.

California campus is latest to be inflamed by protests -- reportedly fueled by visiting mob from off the campus -- over appearances by the Breitbart writer and provocateur. UPDATE: Trump suggests university should lose federal funds.