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New paper explains effort to fight gender bias in political science, and, perhaps, in other disciplines as well.

When Tina Cheuk discovered firsthand that academe can still penalize women in their childbearing years, she founded a network for positive change.

If you want a classroom where students can speak freely and assess dangerous ideas, then you can't be a helicopter professor -- whether you’re a liberal, conservative or something in between, writes Francis J. Beckwith.

UW Madison professors oppose legislative proposal to ban university system from requiring that campus chancellors and presidents have academic backgrounds.

Finding your passion in one particular area and cultivating it more intensely is a useful strategy, advises Adriana Bankston.

Sexual assault takes away a victim’s power and agency, and to assist with their healing, universities need to affirm their agency and re-empower them, argues Cybill Rights.

By targeting the comments of presumably left-wing professors, the right is using free speech as part of their long-term strategy of delegitimizing higher education itself, writes Victor Ray.

American U scholar says provost cherry-picked negative student ratings of her teaching to deny her a promotion