Faculty Issues

At MIT, professors grapple with how to teach students to communicate about numbers in clear English.

For a college president, Michael Schneider of McPherson College spends an awful lot of time talking about horsing around on...

As classroom devices proliferate, institutions look to campuswide adoptions to ease costs for students.

Citing concerns about educational quality, a faculty union in Washington State refuses to budge from practice of adding full-time slots.

As U.S. panel brainstorms about big-picture changes to accreditation, ending agencies' role as gatekeepers and moving away from a regional system appear to gain favor.

As the federal committee that oversees accrediting agencies meets, the consensus is that the Education Department is becoming more stringent.

It will surprise no one familiar with her work that Naomi Schaefer Riley is not a fan of tenure. In...

At university press meeting, some see advantage to having their works copied without permission.