Faculty Issues

Discipline urged to pay more attention to issues of race and inequality, and to diversify.

A dean at William & Mary sends out an e-mail to faculty members asking them not to use the word "retard."

When public university leaders kill programs in crucial disciplines on the basis of low enrollments, they distort the responsibilities of professors and administrators, writes Rebecca Gould.

The life of the Northern Illinois grad who killed 5 there is recounted in new book -- with lessons for colleges on gun control, mental health and what they do right.

Dominican U. of California tries a four-course sequence to teach new students how we ended up where we are.

Citing demographic and pedagogic trends, growing number of colleges rename departments "world" or "modern" languages.

Will a new series from Yale University Press aimed at young readers (and the occasional grown-up) catch fire? Scott McLemee takes a look.