Faculty Issues

It's not just you: sociology's publishing expectations have doubled in recent decades, by some measures, and that threatens research ingenuity, according to one study.

Inspired by University of California’s decision to drop its “big deal” with Elsevier, university librarians are laying the foundation to follow suit.

President Trump's executive order is all about protecting only certain kinds of speakers, argues Patricia McGuire -- those toward the right side of the political spectrum.

Bennett College, to keep its accreditation and access to federal aid, follows a playbook used by other small religious colleges.

Franciscan U of Steubenville is seeking to block faculty members from talking about university matters anonymously to the press and to limit what they may otherwise discuss publicly.

How do you prepare to teach such a class, a junior professor asks -- especially if you'd never have suggested offering it in the first place?

The truly momentous part of President Trump's executive order is its embrace of earnings data to judge every academic program, Anthony P. Carnevale writes.

In the wake of President Trump's executive order, David R. Harris explains why he opposes free speech at colleges and universities.