Faculty Issues

The real obstacles to sustaining the liberal arts have to do with traditional organizational structures and curricular approaches, argue Peter Stokes and Chris Slatter.

Better service, lower prices, higher profits. Indiana U may have found a textbook acquisition model that makes everyone happy.

Union announces agreement to extend old contract, use mediator and reimburse professors for health costs they faced while out of a job.

Rather than shun technologies hyped by companies with grand promises, faculty members should force vendors to explain how the tools will help professors teach and students learn, Michael Feldstein argues.

More than 150 faculty members offer new students a different view on safe spaces, trigger warnings and diversity.

Critics said one-credit, student-led course was anti-Zionist. The university said it acted on procedural grounds.

A legendary American miracle worker claimed to read books without opening them -- a trick researchers have just pulled off in the lab. Scott McLemee looks from inside a lattice of coincidences.

Open-records requests involving a SUNY Plattsburgh professor who backs the Israel boycott follow pattern of challenges to faculty members with controversial views on a range of issues.