Faculty Issues

Scott McLemee reviews Vice, Crime and Poverty by Dominique Kalifa.

After controversy over professor who turned down student request for a recommendation because she planned to study in Israel, Michigan says faculty members should base such decisions "solely on educational and professional reasons," not on politics.

Academics fear global reach of new Singaporean legislation could result in censorship of international academic journals.

A Norwegian consortium has signed a new kind of subscription deal with Elsevier that includes open-access publishing -- a first for the publisher. But the new rights come at a cost.

Chapman University removes posters from prominent places in its film school after students object to centrality of a work full of racism.

Does movement against DePaul scholar -- focused on his tone and rhetoric -- violate academic freedom?

Despite a viral tweet that was picked up by news outlets, there is no evidence that students must pay for recommendations.