Faculty Issues

We know about gender bias in student ratings of professors. A new study finds the same, troubling trend in evaluations of teaching assistants.

Scott McLemee reviews Political Perversion: Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering by Joshua Gunn.

Furman professor resigns suddenly after an anonymous critic outs her as white, not Chicana, as she'd claimed.

In educational institutions today, students must grapple with real life-and-death decisions, writes Rita Kirk.

Guiding students in effective collaboration is one of the best ways to mentor them in this crisis, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis argue, offering advice for how to do so successfully.

Teacher education programs were facing major problems even before the pandemic, but are they dying of natural causes or being killed off? Either way, what's lost when they go away for good?

With some colleges and universities planning to continue online learning into the spring, students are now looking at over a year of learning from home. How will their well-being and academics be affected?