Faculty Issues

Scott McLemee reviews Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan.

As scrutiny of college prices and outcomes mounts, a new panel co-chaired by leaders of Gates Foundation and state-college group aims to examine the value of postsecondary credentials.

Gordon College announces cuts to majors, consolidating history, philosophy and political science into a single department and eliminating stand-alone majors in chemistry, foreign languages, physics and other fields.

Webster U is looking into how it handled a harassment complaint against a game design instructor that a student says went unresolved.

Historian at U of Minnesota "celebrates" tenure with a scathing critique of her governing board's recent actions against a building-renaming proposal. She says she couldn't have risked these statements without job security.

Charles M. Schweik describes four ways higher education could make much more of such educational opportunities.

WPI wants associate professors to understand what's possible, and offer options that go beyond traditional research.

Muslim students who observe Ramadan have found themselves fasting during the most stressful time of the academic year. How are colleges helping them?