Faculty Issues

New study of computer scientists says that when it comes to research output, where Ph.D.s get hired matters more than where they trained.

Governors State University president Elaine Maimon pens an open thank-you letter to a transformative English composition instructor at a community college.

Provost, who had said university was ending its support for university press this year, extends it for another year and suggests more support could be coming in the future. New approach comes amid widespread criticism.

Study examines what colleges say they want students to learn and how they are measuring that learning.

Sociologist at the Connecticut liberal arts college who studies whiteness is again in trouble for his comments about race, but his college has his back -- more than it did in 2017. He blames this wave of backlash on an ongoing fight over club dedicated to preserving the Western tradition.

Want to know how to handle a Me Too-related incident and related public relations snafu? Don't ask the Society for American Archaeology.

In teaching, we can embrace the ways that rage is a legitimate response to felt injustices and draw on it as a sort of compass and wellspring of creativity, writes Deborah J. Cohan.

Editors discuss new volume of essays on the ways higher education is changing because of issues of race, gender and sexuality -- and how they think higher ed needs to change even more.