Faculty

Let’s do it, if we’re going to do it.

By John Warner

Tenure can be confusing, even for those who have it. Here’s why academia’s most unique work practice is—and isn’t—so special.

By Deepa Das Acevedo

University officials say the planned event violates the collective bargaining agreement, as well as Ohio law. Faculty say this is “untrue and a gross mischaracterization” of the teach-out, which was intended to be celebratory.

In publication, as in teaching, academic life is full of threshold moments.

By Philip T. Starks

The Department of Commerce has scrubbed part of its scientific-integrity policy that banned political interference with its agencies’ research and...

Also this month: Several unions are entering mediation to hopefully wrap up monthslong bargaining efforts, and Auburn University faculty begin to formalize their pushback to recent policy overhauls.

Ohio State University will pay the government $2.1 million to resolve allegations that it failed to disclose federally funded researchers’...

A year of conversations with editors, agents and scholars taught me that breaking through takes practical know-how and remembering how to teach.

By Susan D’Agostino