Faculty Issues

Gathering draws students from numerous campuses who endorse a statement of principles about the value of open expression in higher education.

If you are a faculty member who is not in math, know that what's happening in many math departments can be directly hurting your own department and possibly your teaching preferences -- as well as the students themselves, writes Alexandra W. Logue.

Paraphrasing tools, freely available online, can fool plagiarism detection software, study finds.

Study suggests professors widely oppose campus carry as inimical to academic freedom, but fewer would alter their teaching habits under the law.

The controversial conservative author has decided not to speak at Berkeley, saying it would not be safe.

Response to Gap ad shows perils of attempting to define or monetize academic fashion.

Collapse of undergraduate curricular reform at Duke illustrates the difficulty of building consensus on just what students need to learn.

In Paranoid Science: The Christian Right’s War on Reality, Antony Alumkal shows that hostility toward science -- including a kind of fearful contempt toward scientists -- is fairly palpable, writes Scott McLemee.