Faculty Issues

Lincoln University’s decision to suspend its history major ignores W. E. B. Du Bois’s belief in the power of history to shape lives in the present and his vision of the university as a center to help reconstruct the world, argues J. Mark Leslie.

A new off-Broadway play features a character based on a real media studies professor.

In Return to Cold War, Robert Legvold gives a succinct, lucid, fairly dispassionate and almost incessantly even-handed presentation of relations between the United States and Russia, writes Scott McLemee.

Philadelphia-based start-up Yellowdig is betting it can help students connect with their peers -- and faculty members understand what captures students' attention.

While most faculty members are still unaware of open educational resources, use in introductory courses nearly rivals that of traditional textbooks, study finds.

Author asks why some countries are better than others at science and technology.

This month's edition of the “Pulse” podcast features an interview with Jason Gad, vice president of business development at ExamSoft.

Academics fact-check the persistent idea, promoted at GOP convention, that liberal professors politically indoctrinate their students.