Faculty Issues

The California State University system is considering an aggressive tack in assessing students' competence.

As more groups demand that part-time faculty jobs become full-time positions, could Georgia State U. provide a model?

Education Department panel blasts controversial accreditor of liberal education programs, restricting its authority for 6 months.

Anthropologists, furious that research may have inspired some Abu Ghraib tactics, vow not to assist in torture.

Listen to some critics of higher education, and you'll hear constant calls for more accountability and assessment. Colleges don't do...

While ETSs paper backs national measures of student outcomes, a discussion reveals differences with U.S. commission's approach.

By now, it is widely accepted that curricular efforts to "engage" students -- to involve them deeply in the process...

Rice killed its press a decade ago. Now it will return -- with all materials online, but with peer review system akin to print operations.