Faculty Issues

U. of Nebraska Press sold almost one million copies of Black Elk Speaks. The director moved to SUNY and now the book is moving too. Fair game or unfair edge?

Phil Ray Jack shares the realities of long-term adjunct status -- and what it means to finally gain a permanent position.

For-profit giant releases study designed to show how much learning takes place, but were the "before" and "after" comparisons of the same group?

Study finds that in much of higher education, collective bargaining hasn’t stopped erosion of tenure-track lines. Community colleges may be different.

Kevin Carey sees flaws in the increasingly international business of rating colleges -- but also sees legitimate reasons for the comparisons.

In many quarters within American higher education, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is viewed (unfairly, she and her supporters would argue)...

A college's new curriculum is designed for the much-changed student population it now serves -- largely low-income, minority "urban learners" (for lack, but not of trying, of a better term).

Most union pacts have little detail on the growing contingent of non-tenure-track professors, but that is starting to change.