Faculty Issues

Nature sets article processing charge at the equivalent of $11,250 for researchers selecting open-access publishing.

California State University will require students to take ethnic studies, but the faculty and system remain divided over how to put the new requirement into place.

Scientists want to know why a major journal published findings that female mentors may be bad for your career, even after reviewers pointed out flaws in the paper’s methodology and analysis. Nature Communications says it’s investigating.

Scott McLemee highlights the considerable number of current and forthcoming books flagged as pertinent to COVID-19 and its impact, or to pandemics more broadly.

Broadway may be closed, but performing and other arts are thriving at some colleges, writes Margot Singer, who describes why and how institutions should double down on that.

COVID-19-related changes to teaching and dealing with students' mental health continue to weigh on professors, with implications for their own mental health.

A group of non-Black scholars, Learning Scientists for Racial Justice, invites other professors to work together to strengthen teaching and take concrete actions in support of Black lives.

Janet Wood Varner, a veteran K-12 teacher who's now become a full-time college instructor, describes what educators from both worlds can learn from each other.