Faculty Issues

John Fea, a history chair, describes what he learned on his daughter's college tours about the presence or absence of a liberal arts ethos.

Indiana U says important research on Alzheimer's disease is imperiled by new state abortion law.

Recent incidents at DePaul and UC Irvine raise the question of what obligations a college has to make sure that protesters -- while objecting to an event -- can't shut it down or block its ideas from being heard.

More community colleges are moving away from relying on placement exams alone to figure out whether incoming students need remediation, but establishing a substitute system can be tricky.

Dick Gregory writes that students who are protesting against a dean who recommended his autobiography should think about which battles matter the most.

U of Florida connects its institutional repository to Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform to try to increase the visibility of the university's intellectual work.

Scott McLemee reviews Terry Eagleton's new book, Culture, which unpacks the concept in its title.

None of our concerns about student readiness for college are ever going to be resolved if we don't help students learn how to stop fearing questions, themselves and others, writes Laurence Musgrove.