Faculty Issues

In a changing market, authors increasingly find themselves negotiating with publishers to see their work to completion, even after they successfully navigate academic peer review, writes, Michael S. Evans. The solution is to make journal acceptance portable.

Open access is not fully realized without open peer review, which would provide opportunities for scholarly dialogue and critique throughout the writing process and beyond, argues Alex Mueller.

Study by faculty members at West Point finds students perform better academically when laptops and tablets are banned from the classroom.

Controversial Ball State U professor earns tenure despite past allegations that he pushed creationism in the science classroom.

The mission of land-grant universities can encourage philosophy as a discipline to return to an outward focus that addresses the most complex challenges of our time, write Christopher P. Long and Michael O'Rourke.

Republican senator renews debate over federal support for studies whose significance is not immediately apparent.

Monica F. Jacobe provides five rules to help people with Ph.D.s who still want to produce scholarship yet work in professional jobs that don't demand or reward it.

Rutgers professors vote a second time to seek access to and limits on use of data from Academic Analytics -- as faculty advocates vow to take such criticism to other campuses.