Faculty Issues

At the University at Buffalo and the U of Virginia, professors fear that too many requirements and not enough thought about them may detract from students' learning. Both move toward more thematic approaches to general education.

The biennial Scholars at Risk gathering focuses on threats to scholars and academic values globally.

At many colleges, new assistant professors earn close to or even more than long timers. U of Washington is trying to do something about it -- and finding out how hard it is. Among other ideas: countering expensive retention raises with new salary steps subject to approval by one's peers.

Faculty members and students worry they're paying the price for construction projects amid a focus on cutting administrative costs.

Scholar vents "bitterly sarcastic" 500-tweet attack on another scholar's book on King Lear.

Scott McLemee reviews a new book that examines the long literary and political history of a femme fatale that embodies two aspects of Eden: the beguiling female and the deceiving reptile, merged, literally, into one.

Members of the American Anthropological Association narrowly vote down a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions.

A new play suggests a surprising traditional route out of poverty, writes Sanford J. Ungar.