Faculty

Professors seek a united faculty voice against legislative incursions into the curriculum with respect to the teaching of race.

The policy has significant benefits for both the instructor and the students, who appreciate being incentivized to do something that actually helps them, writes Zachary Nowak.

By Zachary Nowak

Under a new initiative from MIT Press, early purchasing commitments from a subset of libraries will make the spring 2022 slate of monographs and edited collections open access.

Colleges employed 4 percent fewer people in fall 2020 than they did pre-pandemic, U.S. data show. Community colleges, service workers and part-time employees suffered disproportionately.

Why isn’t the American higher education community, Terri Taylor asks, talking more—indeed, doing more—about this broad assault on academic freedom?

By Terri Taylor

How a dispute over pandemic-era funding for graduate education is putting the entire department’s future at risk.

By the end of Thursday, the committee had voted on most of the issues up for regulation, but so far members have only agreed on proposed regulatory language for two of them.

University of North Carolina will create an internal unit to build and manage online programs from the system’s 17 campuses for learners largely ignored by many universities.