Faculty Issues

With colleges under intense pressure to find new sources of revenue, many are applying business ideas or creating closer ties...

Robert Eisinger makes the case for emphasizing fluidity over concreteness and probability over facts in the college classroom.

ETS says new research shows its program can be superior to human evaluation of college students, but MIT scholar says claims are built on false premises.

Adjuncts at Columbia College Chicago say that administration's replacement of 100 long-serving instructors, without explanation, is an act of 'war' on their union.

This year marks the four hundredth anniversary of an influential translation of the Bible. Scott McLemee hears echoes of it everywhere.

Colleges need to harness their own research expertise to focus on how students advance or fail to do so, writes Diana Chapman Walsh.

Furor over outspoken adjunct's testimony in Washington highlights rift between tenured and contingent faculty.

UNC-Chapel Hill plans to scale back controversial online Spanish 101 experiment after three semesters.