Faculty Issues

In a bid to gain market share, publishers have slashed the cost of digital textbooks.

A recent study questioning the value of such practices mistakenly assumes that just making them available suffices. How they are implemented is crucial, George Kuh and Jillian Kinzie write.

Prominent psychologist apologizes and resigns as journal editor over allegations of aggressive self-citation and more.

A lesson in Ethan Tussey’s The Procrastination Economy: The Big Business of Downtime is that a large, voracious and profitable cultural apparatus is absorbing and monetizing every second of your attention, writes Scott McLemee.

Montana State's Faculty Senate narrowly votes down proposed economics research center to be funded by an active Charles Koch Foundation grant.

Essay on "erotics of mentorship" sets off debate about whether sexuality has any place in academic relationships.

Survey finds strong faculty support for free expression on campus, even for ideas some would consider offensive.

Researchers challenge conventional wisdom and past studies linking widely promoted educational experiences to timely college completion.