Faculty Issues

Two institutions grapple with how they should deal with revelations of faculty members' histories of sexual misconduct. Court orders reinstatement of one.

Co-author of new book discusses its critique of societal values, how young people are taught to think about the world and free exchange of ideas in higher education.

In the future, we won't be able to sidestep the ethical and policy issues linked to the use of technology, writes Lynn Pasquerella, so we must confront the question of how we best prepare students for it.

Harry Brighouse shares instructional practices that undergraduates say they have rarely encountered and think should be more widely shared.

Rutgers University ruled that a professor's supposedly satirical comments on white gentrification violated university policy. In response to public backlash, the university is reviewing its initial decision.

Emory is investigating a law professor who used the slur in a torts class about a case involving the word "Negro."

It's not a concept for a sitcom -- UC Santa Cruz is so strapped for space it is asking faculty and staff to open their homes for students to rent.

In Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self, Marc Wittmann underscores how little separates ordinary consciousness from other forms of it, writes Scott McLemee.