Faculty Issues

Campuses are targets of the alt-right. A new group is proposing a broad, campus-based countermovement.

Union of Concerned Scientists has launched a tool for federal employees to report political meddling in science and research. It’s the latest way science advocates are responding to what they see as the Trump administration’s anti-science policies.

In The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, Linda Gordon emphasizes broad patterns, making the book more timely than even the headlines of the past few days would suggest, writes Scott McLemee.

Author discusses new book on how the value of higher education is discussed -- and how issues of gender influence that discussion.

University says it is blocking event not because of the ideas involved, but for reasons of safety, post-Charlottesville.

Sociologists talk about teaching in the political now, with an emphasis on critical media literacy, ground rules for a discussion and an understanding that students see sociology classrooms as somewhere to try to make sense of current events.

Sociologists call for a systematic response to online targeting of and threats against public scholars.

Conservative websites publicized and mocked a syllabus offering to let students grade themselves. Syllabus was pulled. But professor says he never intended the statement as more than a way to start a conversation.