Faculty Issues

At San Francisco State, professors allege a pattern of ignoring promises made to recruit or retain faculty members.

Among other things, assessors routinely ignore standard design principles and practices that are considered essential in most valid research.

U of Illinois System and some legislators back plan to end budget impasse by putting limits on tuition increases and out-of-state enrollments.

Student engagement survey finds black students are more than twice as likely as other students to feel "physically unsafe" on campus, and that black professors interact more with their students than do other professors.

Journal withdraws paper that argued -- based on flimsy evidence, critics said -- that some people are clairvoyant.

As postelection protests continue, tactic people associate with the Vietnam era returns -- and so does debate about symbolism, patriotism and history.

Scott McLemee delves into The Quantified Self by Deborah Lupton, a study of how digital self-tracking is insinuating itself into every nook and cranny of human experience.