Faculty Issues

Move was opposed by civil rights groups and faculty leaders, who see a violation of academic freedom.

After a year of constant debate and considerable divisiveness, three texts seek to make the discussion more productive.

Unorthodox lecturer Alexander Coward, once caught between students who praised him and a math department that didn’t, still employs his teaching skills at UC Berkeley -- even if it’s on an unofficial basis.

A. W. Strouse, whose students represent a planet’s worth of distinct backgrounds, offers guidance on how to encourage them to speak up in their own way.

As debate over statues and building names moves from Confederate generals to researchers, editorial in Nature receives intense backlash.

Tommy Curry, the philosopher at Texas A&M whose comments on race set off a furor, discusses his new book on how critical theory has ignored the realities of black maleness.

In True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century, Emily Skidmore describes how manhood in that day was as much a moral status as a sexual category, writes Scott McLemee.

Beverly Daniel Tatum discusses revised 20th-anniversary edition of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?