Faculty Issues

Scott McLemee reviews Daniel H. Weiss’s Why the Museum Matters.

Preliminary data from the NSF indicate that COVID-19 hit Ph.D. production hard in 2021, but job-placement data are surprisingly rosy—just not in academe.

In the early pandemic, educators rallied to provide academic continuity in unprecedented ways. That spurred online teaching innovations, many of which are worth preserving and enhancing, a Stanford self-study says.

A chemistry instructor at the University of California, San Diego, interrupted class last week to malign “Mexican” campus workers. He’s now suspended for the term, but this hasn’t satisfied everyone—if anyone.

Susan N. Kahn calls for higher standards for entry into college and university teaching.

Universities should ban fossil fuel industry funding for research on climate change and energy, Jake Lowe and Connor Chung write.

A proposed bylaw change as to how UVA selects faculty board reps reveals lingering mistrust between campus constituencies.

Authors discuss their new book on how Black students and their families should navigate their choices on where to go to college.