Faculty Issues

When you hit an awkward or incorrect sentence in a student essay, writes Mark Longaker, remember the learning process.

Higher ed associations create panel to study and suggest changes to quality assurance system -- not least to ward off government action.

To get students more engaged in texts, some professors hold marathon sessions where students read the books out loud.

Some states see the online, competency-based Western Governors U. as a way to boost college completion rates without increasing higher ed spending; some professors see it as a parasite, not a panacea.

A legal dispute between college bookstores and Amazon about the Internet giant's advertisements takes the textbook war on an unusual foray outside the marketplace.

Universities treat adjuncts as if contracts don't matter, writes Cliffton Price, who has had enough.

Massachusetts union debates whether part-timers -- who are in the majority by far -- should get full vote in electing leaders.

A new book, The Constitution Goes to College: Five Constitutional Ideas That Have Shaped the American University (New York University...