Faculty Issues

Author discusses new book on defending and explaining science.

Educators from the university and elsewhere consider whether innovation is still possible in liberal arts education.

University library exhibit included photos of students from the 1920s in blackface. Now the library director is suspended -- and some of her faculty colleagues say Doane made the wrong call.

Making cuts to liberal arts courses overlooks the significant benefits such an education provides to students, workers and the economy, writes Roger W. Ferguson Jr.

A project that aims to slash the cost of producing monographs could help make more of them available to the public for free. But will scholars participate?

Scott McLemee reviews Melissa Gregg's Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy.

Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education will combine to create one giant education publisher focused on digital content. Observers aren’t convinced that’s a good thing for students.