Faculty Issues

Despite recent criticism of student reviews of faculty members, there is a system that’s working, AAUP conference is told.

Move -- by 2-to-1 margin -- follows several years of heated debates at association’s annual meetings.

MIT students reported that taking course online -- instead of same course on campus -- was less stressful than their in-person classes.

A dispute about a sociology test question on slave families ended in a lecturer's termination this spring at the University of Tennessee.

Scholarly database JSTOR explores -- through a white paper and prototypes -- how to redesign the scholarly monograph for digital reading.

Many humanists have difficulty presenting their case because they are used to speaking one way among themselves and another way to outsiders, argue Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro.

Move is part of a goal to significantly raise graduation rates.

Which histories matter? Which literatures? Who gets to decide? These questions are particularly complex with an international student body, writes Deborah L. Williams