Faculty Issues

FAFSA verification can be a burden for students and institutions alike. College access advisers and financial aid administrators say data sharing and changing how the Education Department selects students for verification could provide relief.

Students at the University of Illinois at Chicago escalate their calls for a law professor accused of racism to be fired, now that he’s scheduled to return to the classroom. The professor says he’s caught up in something that isn’t really about him.

S. Brooke Vick from Muhlenberg College shares three ways mentoring efforts can support students of color.

New research argues that increases in GPAs are responsible for the rise in college completion rates since the 1990s.

Higher education thought leaders and colleges are working together to create a three-year bachelor’s degree program that will offer all the value of a four-year degree—for less cost.

Constraints on discussions of important social issues, however sensitive, subvert the goals of a liberal arts education, write David Wippman and Glenn C. Altschuler.

While open-access science has made research available worldwide, some scholars worry that misinformation, fraud and politicization have become rampant in a system that rewards speed and sparkle.