Faculty Issues

Anne Dwyer's students questioned the idea of reading the novel, even in a course on Nabokov. Here is her explanation of why the work should be taught.

At an institution that prides itself on its use of technology, one professor goes in the opposite direction -- banning all electronic devices in his classes.

New findings: college students actually perform worse with access to digital course-planning platforms that show how previous students performed.

Scott McLemee explores a few -- perhaps somewhat surprising -- new pricing models for books and journals.

Department offers few details in release of regulatory agenda, and some say review may be as much symbolic as substantive.

Injunctions against excessive nonacademic acknowledgments are not new, explains Richard Hughes Gibson.

Researchers in machine learning, a field in which journals are generally open, vow not to read, submit or review for Nature Machine Intelligence, which will charge subscription fees.

AAUP says University of Nebraska-Lincoln violated Courtney Lawton's academic freedom when it ended her teaching appointment over a high-profile political dispute on campus.