Faculty Issues

Several of novelist Philip Roth's books called out academics as misguided, hyper-political or overtly ambitious. But professors say he was happy to be taught at colleges.

Academe sees a new wave of faculty-student dating bans in the era of Me Too.

Most institutions say they value teaching. But how they assess it tells a different story. University of Southern California has stopped using student evaluations of teaching in promotion decisions in favor of peer-review model. Oregon seeks to end quantitative evaluations of teaching for holistic model.

Jonathan Zimmerman considers the late writer's fiction and nonfiction on the subject.

Do the students know what they’re supposed to be doing in their tutoring sessions? Or after? And how can we best guide them? Rachel Wagner explores some answers.

Unlike most of the institutions that have failed recently, Marylhurst isn't in the Northeast or Midwest. But it is a Roman Catholic institution with a modest endowment.