Faculty Issues

Education Department's proposed rule for student debt forgiveness could threaten traditional colleges as well as for-profits, particularly over its broad view of what counts as misrepresentation.

A roundup of student protests, college vigils, controversies and academic groups' responses to a week of shooting deaths.

A new initiative designed to challenge colleges to get students involved in the democratic process is questioned for perceived ties to the White House.

In an age of narcissism, we need to protect professors by putting cameras in the classroom, argues Amir Azarvan.

Student sues U of Cincinnati after being told she can't have male partner in physics lab. Emails suggest multiple university officials defended the policy, but university now says it was not mandatory.

Students at Michigan State University will no longer have to take college-level algebra, thanks to a revision of the general-education math requirement.

The old joke that consigns people who graduate with English degrees to a permanent life in food service says less about them and more about our culture, writes Robert Matz.

Australian universities' use of adjunct instructors grows much faster than other types of faculty employment -- especially for teaching-only positions.