Faculty

More than a dozen states considered or passed legislation targeting critical race theory this year. How has this academic concept become so politicized?

As colleges and universities return to in-classroom teaching, what practices that emerged during the pandemic will carry over? Shigeru Miyagawa and Meghan Perdue offer some answers.

By Shigeru Miyagawa and Meghan Perdue

Scholar discusses his book on “old South rhetoric at Southern universities.”

On the first of five days of comment hearings, speakers advocated for and against changes to the Title IX regulations made by former secretary of education Betsy DeVos.

Switzerland classifies “unjustified” self-citation or claiming authorship despite contributing little as grounds for sanctions.

Hannah-Jones case costs the university a noted chemistry faculty recruit. Professors there worry about even bigger recruitment problems ahead.

If universities can sack tenured faculty without due process, it will set a dangerous precedent -- one that could ultimately be a death sentence for the profession, argues Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt.

By Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt