Filter & Sort
Targeting Fetal Tissue Researchers
Congressional inquiry seeks the names and identities of academics, including graduate students, prompting criticism from scholars who say the probe is more about intimidation than information.
If You Say You're Sorry
Marquette suspends controversial tenured faculty blogger whom last year it moved to fire. And university says he must apologize for some past statements to keep his job.
Questioning the 'Myth' of Linguistic Bias
Analysis finds little evidence linking language to acceptance or rejection by journals.
Title IX as a Threat to Academic Freedom
AAUP attempts to reframe debate and put focus on due process and the importance of faculty freedom of speech.
$31 Million Court Win for a For-Profit College
Federal judge backs finding that an accreditor misled the Education Department about a now-closed for-profit institution, and relieves most of the college's debt.
Opinion
Fish Tales
Scott McLemee reviews a new biography on the scholar Stanley Fish, who, if he wrote a book of career advice, could title it The Art of the Deal.
For Freshmen, Only Full-Time Faculty
Governors State U, with many at-risk students, and without much money, opts to fill freshman program course sections with full-time faculty members only.
'Lesson Plan'
Two former college presidents, both longtime scholars of higher education, discuss their new book on the problems -- real and imagined -- facing academe.