Faculty Issues

Stanford professors want the university to distance itself from a closed conference on academic freedom, saying it’s silencing debate and harboring racist thought.

Failing organic chemistry kept me from pursuing medicine and pushed me to pursue my passion for journalism. That may have been a good thing, Pamela Gwyn Kripke writes.

And coming to terms with “robot writing” might just improve writing instruction, S. Scott Graham writes.

Lingering free speech concerns from past events at Yale Law School prompt a conservative judge to call for his colleagues to avoid hiring graduates as clerks.

Florida International University’s president is returning to campus as a professor—to the tune of $377K per year—after a sexual harassment scandal.

Scott McLemee reviews Daniel H. Weiss’s Why the Museum Matters.

Preliminary data from the NSF indicate that COVID-19 hit Ph.D. production hard in 2021, but job-placement data are surprisingly rosy—just not in academe.