Faculty Issues

NYU offers to permit election on collective bargaining for teaching assistants, but not for research assistants. Move marks shift for university, but union leader says it is based on "arbitrary distinctions."

With many professors balking at giving up their intellectual homes, some institutions create emeritus colleges.

At gathering focused on global learning, faculty and others discuss diverse strategies for integrating it within the curriculum.

A new book gives tips and tricks to boards, presidents and would-be presidents to avoid leadership disasters.

U. of Southern Maine is latest institution to consider closing its physics department. Are there disciplines whose lack of popularity with the masses shouldn't doom them?

Long forgotten, J. Redding Ware was a philologist of slang and detective-fiction pioneer. Scott McLemee looks into Ware Studies.

5 years after SUNY Press raised eyebrows with the way it obtained book rights that had been held by U. of Nebraska Press, the work is returning to the Plains.