Faculty Issues

Analysis commissioned by advocacy group documents how major companies' business strategies could help them lock up research and learning data that colleges and scholars need.

Scholars question decision -- particularly as it comes from one of the world's wealthiest universities and will limit publishing by a highly respected press.

Vanderbilt scholar was talking about his new book, Dying of Whiteness.

Scott McLemee reviews Vice, Crime and Poverty by Dominique Kalifa.

After controversy over professor who turned down student request for a recommendation because she planned to study in Israel, Michigan says faculty members should base such decisions "solely on educational and professional reasons," not on politics.

Academics fear global reach of new Singaporean legislation could result in censorship of international academic journals.

A Norwegian consortium has signed a new kind of subscription deal with Elsevier that includes open-access publishing -- a first for the publisher. But the new rights come at a cost.