Faculty Issues

Looking ahead to the next semester, J. Mark McFadden shares what he's learned over the past months about how to be a more effective instructor.

The most discriminated-against higher ed employees -- those on the right or center-right -- are ignored in public universities ostensibly but falsely obsessed with diversity, argues Richard E. Vatz.

Nature sets article processing charge at the equivalent of $11,250 for researchers selecting open-access publishing.

California State University will require students to take ethnic studies, but the faculty and system remain divided over how to put the new requirement into place.

Scientists want to know why a major journal published findings that female mentors may be bad for your career, even after reviewers pointed out flaws in the paper’s methodology and analysis. Nature Communications says it’s investigating.

Scott McLemee highlights the considerable number of current and forthcoming books flagged as pertinent to COVID-19 and its impact, or to pandemics more broadly.

Broadway may be closed, but performing and other arts are thriving at some colleges, writes Margot Singer, who describes why and how institutions should double down on that.

COVID-19-related changes to teaching and dealing with students' mental health continue to weigh on professors, with implications for their own mental health.