Faculty Issues

Scott McLemee reviews Susan Schneider's Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind.

Newman University wants to align its philosophy program with its new seminary. What does that mean?

It’s not enough to passively continue with the same curriculum and hope that students, their families, politicians and the public at large re-recognize the value in what we do, argues Laura L. Behling.

Female academics have about half the followers of men on Twitter and wield otherwise diminished influence there, according to a new study. The analysis pertains to medicine, but women across fields say the findings ring true.

Higher education suffers from an inertia that sets in when professors who weren't taught how to teach draw from the outmoded teaching styles that they experienced as students, writes Laura Freberg.

Colleges and universities must have the flexibility to deal with matters of conduct without the government looking over their shoulders, argues Sigal Ben-Porath.

We're not teaching students enough about weapons of mass destruction -- and it shows, warns Sarah Bidgood.