Faculty Issues

Colleges can dramatically improve success rates of low-income, first-generation students by working across units, argue Adrianna Kezar and Elizabeth Holcombe.

Can “light-touch, targeted feedback” to students via email improve their perceptions of and performance in a class? New research says in some cases the answer is yes.

Proposal to lift cap on college programs offered through unaccredited entities stirs concerns about giving companies back door to federal student aid.

Printer closures and paper shortages create scheduling headaches for academic authors and staff at university presses.

Scott McLemee reviews Anthony Bonato's Limitless Minds: Interviews With Mathematicians.

Authors discuss new book about the diversity and strength of religion in academe -- as well as some of the tensions.

New cookbook from the Modern Language Association celebrates the subtle and not-so-subtle links between literature, food and drink.

Historians and language professors discuss strategies for improving advising and graduate education in general at recent annual meetings.