Faculty Issues

Author of new book discusses an offbeat tradition at Miami University.

Media studies professor says traditional journals and presses need to become more open and dynamic if they want to avoid becoming dead on their feet.

A new book maps the corporate genome of composition studies. Scott McLemee has a look.

The way professors prefer to teach may not match the way students can gain the most, writes Robert J. Sternberg.

Brendan Boyle considers the fictions of summer reading programs.

The leaders of two student surveys -- used by hundreds of colleges but questioned lately by some researchers -- defend their projects.

State board approves joint bargaining unit for tenure-track and adjunct professors, but administration vows to go to court to block a single chapter.

Politicians and academics occupy different spheres. Scott McLemee looks at a new book on statecraft and scholarship.