Faculty Issues

In their new book, Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth argue that the First Amendment is not crucial to academic freedom. Instead, they call on faculty to develop the rules.

False dichotomies, oversimplifications and an ahistorical before-and-after framing are hallmarks of accounts of the humanities’ decline, Harvey J. Graff writes.

If Grove City College’s review of its diversity efforts was meant to settle a debate over whether the institution is headed in the right direction, it didn’t.

A new law will task state regents with overseeing free speech polices and censorship complaints at Oklahoma’s public universities. Opponents say it’s unneeded and unfairly maligns state institutions.

Faculty members and students rallied around a professor at California State U, Los Angeles, after police physically removed her from a mayoral debate on campus. More such confrontations are expected on campuses in the current political climate.

After a week of protests over news that New York University was weighing a faculty job for scholar who resigned from MIT over sexual misconduct findings, NYU and Dr. David Sabatini part ways.

A researcher explores academe’s version of the “big quit”—what’s distinctive about it and why campus leaders need to take it seriously.

Now more than ever, higher education institutions need to provide a place of safety and belonging for students from Ukraine and other parts of the world in crisis, writes Rima Gulshan.