Faculty Issues

Philosophers should embrace new media as a tool to broaden their discipline's influence, Peter Adamson writes.

Socrates couldn’t get a job today in a philosophy department. Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle think that’s a problem.

MLA debates when and how it should enter political debates, and whether it should endorse boycott of Israeli universities -- with scholars on all sides invoking academic freedom.

Arbitrator says U. of Hawaii must hire longtime non-tenure-track faculty member for permanent post. Could contract provision on which ruling was based help others?

Universities "unbending" on fee-free demand as talks with Elsevier resume.

The Great Books can be relevant and life-changing for classes of low-income students and for those fortunate to teach them, writes Tamara Mann.

Scholars at MLA discuss how their teaching -- and an emerging field of criticism -- reflects challenges facing academe.