Faculty Issues

Once, the e-book reader was a futuristic fantasy. Scott McLemee faces the ambivalence of living it out.

Just about any discussion of academic hiring these days, after the natural focus on the tight market, tends to come...

As publishers and analysts again wonder if e-books are about to take off, the growing popularity of rental options may play as important a role as technology.

The status of the United States in the international higher education ecosystem -- and, particularly, whether it is losing its...

A new book examines the only student-run homeless shelter in the country.

College football is so notorious a breeding ground for controversy that it's difficult even to say what constitutes a scandal...

Rice U. shuts down its digital university press -- going against recommendations of outside reviewers. With 2 other presses closing, some see growing vulnerability for small outfits.

A Texas Tech professor replaces traditional textbooks with a cartoon story -- and finds that students respond.