Faculty Issues

As we approach the new year, Scott McLemee gives a preview of some of the new books coming out in 2019.

How do professors respond to regrade requests? One department encourages instructors to pass them up the chain.

Such feelings aren't more common in people of any particular gender, observes Roshini Pinto-Powell.

Pilot project seeks to eliminate bias.

When we take positions and make decisions based on a political litmus test, we hurt the very core of our institutional mission, argues Raynard Kington.

Students at Northwestern want controversial visiting scholar who muses on race, intelligence and beauty, and who has been accused by colleagues of "bad science," off their campus.

Legislation in California concerning ESL instruction reflects a huge lack of understanding of what it takes for the human brain to learn another language, writes Parviz Parsafar.

Professor at UC Irvine takes to Twitter to demand action on her complaint against a fellow instructor, whom she views as a harasser.