Faculty Issues

Making cuts to liberal arts courses overlooks the significant benefits such an education provides to students, workers and the economy, writes Roger W. Ferguson Jr.

A project that aims to slash the cost of producing monographs could help make more of them available to the public for free. But will scholars participate?

Scott McLemee reviews Melissa Gregg's Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy.

Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education will combine to create one giant education publisher focused on digital content. Observers aren’t convinced that’s a good thing for students.

New study of computer scientists says that when it comes to research output, where Ph.D.s get hired matters more than where they trained.

Governors State University president Elaine Maimon pens an open thank-you letter to a transformative English composition instructor at a community college.

Provost, who had said university was ending its support for university press this year, extends it for another year and suggests more support could be coming in the future. New approach comes amid widespread criticism.