Faculty Issues

Education Dept. offers compromise on measuring learning outcomes, but colleges say plan would still "federalize" accreditation.

Shakespeare wrote one of the most savage plays in the canon. Scott McLemee visits the dark side.

Students not enrolled full time have less faculty interaction -- and so do full-timers at colleges with many part-timers, study finds.

AFT seeks to reshape the debate about a core value by emphasizing issues of job security, or lack thereof, for adjuncts.

Here's why the work of a U.S. panel reviewing federal rules on accreditation matters.

More colleges offer incentives for tenured professors to end careers -- sometimes through gradual shift away from full-time work, report finds.

NEA releases own draft of plan to promote equity and full-time jobs. Its approach differs from other unions, but faces similar tensions.

Almost from the beginning of its work, the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education made it...