Faculty Issues

Short essays are not mere vestiges to be taught out of a sense of tradition or a lack of imagination, argues Zachary M. Schrag. They do real work in the world.

When it comes to building a better learning system, such a perspective presents a false choice that will intensify rather than diminish economic and social inequity, writes Debra Humphreys.

County College of Morris let six untenured professors go. The college said declining enrollment drove the decision, but the fired faculty members say the administration wanted to clamp down on their union.

Weeks after the University of Pennsylvania announced repatriation plans for a controversial collection of skulls, a separate set of human remains is bringing scrutiny. Princeton University is implicated.

Scott McLemee reviews The Man Who Lived Underground: A Novel by Richard Wright.