Faculty Issues

An Auburn professor spoke out about athletics officials advocating for an otherwise unpopular major in which football players were clustered and lost his chair. A jury says he deserves more than half a million dollars in damages.

Scott McLemee reviews Leslie Kern’s Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies.

The Education Department has left room for online colleges to innovate while maintaining eligibility for federal financial aid. But the lack of clarity carries some risk that colleges could run afoul of unarticulated rules.

Adjuncts walk out indefinitely, demanding better pay and job security, among other changes. University of California strike continues.

Charging history or English majors lower tuition in line with lower labor costs could attract back students who have been abandoning the humanities, Fidel J. Tavárez writes.

We can do more to help those across the political spectrum understand how to apportion their trust in science and be less vulnerable to partisan denialism, says Michael Schwalbe.

Eastern University says it will now hire LGBTQ employees, risking its membership in prominent group for Christian colleges.

Some 48,000 graduate student workers, postdocs and researchers across the U of California are striking for a major pay increase. The pressure is on.