Faculty Issues

The scholarly database JSTOR, recognizing its role as a starting point for research, sees major growth in its ebook program.

An American student enrolled in an intensive language program affiliated with the University of Tehran is among the prisoners released by Iran.

The Education Department's inspector general is auditing Western Governors U over the faculty role in its competency-based programs. The high-stakes audit is relevant to other colleges and forms of online learning.

Northeastern is latest university where first contract with adjunct union has included substantial salary increases and other key benefits -- such as payments for classes that colleges cancel.

Experts attempt to make sense of Khan Academy's patent application for A/B testing in education -- and whether it can even be patented.

Facing third of trifecta of no-confidence votes, Ithaca College's embattled Tom Rochon plans to retire -- but not for another 18 months.

Celebrate or hate it as you will, writes Scott McLemee, Wikipedia has metamorphosed from its beginnings as a gangly cultural interloper into the de facto reference work of first resort.