Faculty Issues

Gender-based discrimination in the academic workplace isn’t always overt, but the “shrapnel” of small indignities stays with you. That’s the premise of a new book on this kind of bias, and how to alleviate it.

Computer-generated gobbledygook can pass for the real thing with many faculty members, study finds.

Proponents of digital badges and alternative credentials have valuable goals, writes Colin Mathews, but are pushing a universal language of credentialing that is unnecessary and unfair.

Responding to sharp criticism, regional accrediting agencies will focus extra attention on institutions with below-average performance.

New study adds to evidence that student reviews of professors have limited validity.

Author discusses new book on the relationship between the "sharing economy" and the erosion of faculty rights.

In each of two new novels, Loner and Diary of an Oxygen Thief, it is the narrator's attitude that sticks with the reader more than the events recounted, writes Scott McLemee.

Technology experts should have the academic freedom to speak on behalf of what's best for education, not just a university's bottom line, Jonathan A. Poritz and Jonathan Rees argue.