Faculty Issues

Illinois governor's pick for state higher education board questions the way academic freedom is defined, the need to defend faculty rights and scientific consensus on evolution.

The Obama administration announces a new $100 million competitive grants program to stimulate the expansion of free community college programs and connect college graduates to in-demand jobs.

Decision to grant a publisher the right to print the writings of Aaron Swartz -- viewed by some as a martyr of the open-access movement -- sets off a debate about copyright.

The diversity requirements at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst demonstrate a troubling shift from proscription of speech to prescription of political attitudes, argue Daphne Patai and Harvey Silverglate.

Wyoming college accused -- twice now -- of retaliating against a student newspaper by threatening the job of its faculty adviser.

W. Robert Connor suggests five alternative -- and more effective -- ways to talk about the value of the humanities.

Several dozen faculty members, administrators, employers, and others recently came together to discuss how to measure student success in the humanities. Paula M. Krebs describes some of the strategies they identified.