Faculty Issues

Initiatives to raise awareness of open educational resources are working -- with more faculty choosing OER over traditional textbooks, survey finds. Advocates say pandemic and recession are also driving interest.

Colleges adopted an array of flexible assessment policies because of COVID-19 last spring. Many are reverting to their normal practices this fall -- though the term will be anything but.

New AAUP statement urges institutions to treat their adjuncts as essential team members during the pandemic -- and after.

While some students criticize the quality of online learning in the age of COVID, those in one class describe a highly positive experience -- and how it allowed them to reimagine pedagogy.

Andrew Joseph Pegoda gives advice for how to be mindful when initiating or engaging in conversations about it in class this fall.

Faculty parents are once again being asked to perform a miracle: Get their students and their own kids through the semester in one piece. Does it have to be this way?

Brown establishes what it says is the first endowed professorship in Palestinian studies at a U.S. research institution.