Faculty Issues

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.

Educators shouldn't be so quick to embrace a critique of colleges that is based on a narrow testing tool, writes Robert J. Sternberg.

As U.S. panel studying accreditation begins to set agenda, it is urged to focus on "prodding" over "fixing."

Historically, universities such as Columbia, Oxford, Yale, Princeton and Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have defined their value...