Faculty Issues

Anthropologists discuss student debt and other concerns about the "commodification" of higher education, and debate role of faculty members in reform efforts.

U. of Oregon graduate teaching assistants walk out, with end of semester looming, after failed negotiations over paid leave.

Scott McLemee considers "The Americans" and a new book on childhood during the Cold War.

Back-to-back essays by two Vassar professors, one of them a former dean, renew a debate about treatment of minority faculty members.

It's time for professors to move beyond complaining about how students are distracted by social media, writes Michelle Miller. Faculty members need to teach about why attention matters.

While college leaders elsewhere who recently pushed civility faced a backlash, U. of Wisconsin Madison faculty approves policy against bullying.