Faculty Issues

Study finds recommendation letters for academic jobs signal doubt about female applicants more than they do for men, with real, negative effects on their job chances.

While external peer reviews of scholarship provide the benefit of both expertise and objectivity, peer reviews of teaching often suffer from the lack of both, argues Pamela E. Barnett.

AAUP censures Nebraska-Lincoln for alleged violations of academic freedom in Courtney Lawton case. Iowa and Stillman removed from lists of sanctioned and censured institutions.

Promising open-access anthropology publication abandons its business model and faces criticism over allegations that top editor and others created toxic environment.

Scott McLemee reviews Michael Ohl’s The Art of Naming, which explores some of the one million animal species that have been identified.

Discussions at AAUP annual meeting show range of views.

Describing his service on a voluntary visiting team, Bob Ubell defends regional accreditation as a form of “deliberative democracy” and urges us not to hand it over to a federal education police force.