Faculty Issues

High court says public employees don't have to pay regular agency fees to unions that represent them in collective bargaining and more, which could hurt faculty and staff unions.

New study says "tension" between graduate training in research and teaching is false and that teaching training may actually build research confidence and output.

Vermont Law School plans to cut professors' tenure to deal with budgetary concerns. Skeptics wonder if it will hurt the institution more than it helps.

Lecturer at University of Washington says he's standing up to political correctness. Many challenge his facts.

Scott McLemee reviews Alex de Waal's Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine.

Journal article that was withdrawn last year amid intense debate is republished by the National Association of Scholars.

Deborah Parker describes how it feels to be an Asian faculty member in Italian, a field in which there are very few minorities, and how greater diversification offers a way forward.

The 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment has long been considered a window into the horrors ordinary people can inflict on one another, but new interviews with participants and reconsideration of archival records shed more light on the findings.