Faculty Issues

American Chemical Society and Elsevier are again suing academic networking site ResearchGate in an attempt to stop it distributing copyrighted research papers.

A conservative professor is under fire for comparing -- facetiously, he says -- Judge Brett Kavanaugh's alleged actions to "spin the bottle," and for suggesting limiting judicial nominees to rapists. Students say his words are dangerous, but he thinks he's collateral damage in the culture wars.

Report says international graduate enrollments were down for the second straight year last year, after a period of significant growth. Experts said it's hard to ignore the Trump factor.

Researchers hoped that online communications would prod students to nearly double their study time. It barely budged, but their study shows how scholars can measure impact (or lack thereof) of educational interventions.

Editors of book series stop publishing with Springer Nature to protest its acquiescence to Chinese government censorship demands.

Historians join political scientists in documenting the unprofessional and illegal behavior women experience at annual gatherings.

His social media posts raise questions of professional responsibility, sexism and free expression.

Scores of full-time, non-tenure-track instructors were promoted last year under a recognition and reward system at Penn State.