Faculty Issues

Yale's arts and sciences faculty wants the institution to seize the day on faculty hiring, but wealthy institutions continue to practice restraint -- maybe even for the long term.

The racial and wealth inequality built into our nation's most viable system of opportunity -- the education sector -- should be at the forefront of any policy conversation, argues Stella M. Flores.

Community colleges cannot lay off faculty members and then hire adjuncts to teach their courses, the Illinois Supreme Court decided.

Authors withdraw controversial article concluding that working with a female mentor might hurt young scientists' careers.

Scholars pledge not to speak at University of Mississippi until it reinstates a colleague who publicly questioned why his chair rejected a grant, allegedly for political reasons.

The work we do now sits squarely in the middle of what so ails our nation and what is required to fix it, writes Matthew C. Moen.

Discrimination against a race is vastly different from discrimination against an ideological viewpoint, argues Jennifer Ballengee.