Faculty Issues

A Texas Tech professor replaces traditional textbooks with a cartoon story -- and finds that students respond.

Rice U. shuts down its digital university press -- going against recommendations of outside reviewers. With 2 other presses closing, some see growing vulnerability for small outfits.

Georgia Gwinnett has boosted retention by giving its faculty smartphones and encouraging students to call them.

Adjuncts consider outreach to their more privileged peers to better achieve labor goals.

At a meeting of advocates for those off the tenure track, two groups present ideas to improve job security, working conditions and pay.

Research, teaching, service. Faculty members regularly debate the relative priorities of those items on the classic list of criteria for...

Academe hides lots of realities in fancy words, writes Steve Street, including the truth about who teaches.

A steady stream of reports from faculty groups warns of the consequences of having too large a share of sections...