Faculty Issues

Scott McLemee ruminates on the memoir of Barbara Ehrenreich, who, while more or less an agnostic, undergoes what sounds like the sort of crisis described by saints and mystics.

To do justice to students and as a matter of professional duty, faculty members should be at the center of defining and measuring undergraduate learning outcomes, argue Josipa Roksa and Richard Arum.

New book unveils faculty-led effort to chart concepts and competencies students should learn in six academic disciplines, with plan to create standardized tests. Will faculty members warm to this version of "learning outcomes"?

Literally walking side by side with students while teaching a class can bring unexpected benefits, writes Del Doughty.

On college campuses, voter turnout is low. But voting behavior varies widely across disciplines and regions, a new study finds.

John Fea, a history chair, describes what he learned on his daughter's college tours about the presence or absence of a liberal arts ethos.

Indiana U says important research on Alzheimer's disease is imperiled by new state abortion law.

Recent incidents at DePaul and UC Irvine raise the question of what obligations a college has to make sure that protesters -- while objecting to an event -- can't shut it down or block its ideas from being heard.