Faculty Issues

Six colleges will pilot an initiative to increase adjunct faculty engagement in their campuses’ completion agendas.

Oberlin once again changes its stance toward Joy Karega, suspending the professor pending an investigation into her remarks on social media.

After an alleged harasser holds on to a powerful academic position, professors try to limit his influence, in part by excluding his work from their syllabi. Is that the right strategy?

Scott McLemee highlights more new books due out from university presses this fall.

Amid declining book sales, university presses search for new ways to measure success.

Nonelite law schools face an existential threat due to market-based disruptions, write Michele Pistone and Michael Horn, who describe innovations that can help.

San Bernardino Valley College calls off a play about the December terrorist attack on a local public facility after receiving complaints about subject matter.

Technology think tank says standardized testing by outside groups and alternative forms of credentialing could create helpful competitive pressure on higher education and the traditional college degree.