Faculty

At the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting, momentum builds in favor of a boycott of Israeli universities.

The summit underscores a tension in the Obama administration’s higher ed approach: how to promote colleges' and universities' successes while holding them more accountable.

Anthropologists discuss student debt and other concerns about the "commodification" of higher education, and debate role of faculty members in reform efforts.

U. of Oregon graduate teaching assistants walk out, with end of semester looming, after failed negotiations over paid leave.

Back-to-back essays by two Vassar professors, one of them a former dean, renew a debate about treatment of minority faculty members.

Scott McLemee considers "The Americans" and a new book on childhood during the Cold War.

By Scott McLemee

While college leaders elsewhere who recently pushed civility faced a backlash, U. of Wisconsin Madison faculty approves policy against bullying.