Faculty Issues

New book tries to help readers cope with that faculty colleague who never liked a new idea or offered to help.

Elsevier’s acquisition of Bepress’s institutional repository platform is heralded as a smart move for the publisher, but not all of Bepress’s customers are impressed.

The time is right for a more courageous approach to difficult conversations, writes Ronald A. Crutcher, who meets regularly with students to discuss controversial issues across lines of difference.

Montclair State strips adjunct of courses amid controversy over tweet wishing someone would shoot Trump. Trinity of Connecticut details students and gifts lost amid furor over professor's hashtag.

Academic leaders decry “ideological hit” on Center for Civil Rights at UNC Chapel Hill.

Education secretary plans to shake up student loan servicing again. The department remains committed to single website for student borrowers.

Byung-Chul Han’s In the Swarm: Digital Prospects describes how our society is well down the road toward a dramatically different, digital world. Much harder to discern, writes Scott McLemee, is where, or if, Han sees an off-ramp.

Setting goals can help students do better academically, and shorter-term, tangible goals are most effective, paper finds.