Faculty Issues

Since Wednesday, students have occupied part of humanities college at Seattle University, demanding shifts in curriculum and resignation of dean alleged to have used slur to refer to book title.

Conference at Georgetown U discusses how to train future ed-tech leaders and whether creating a new discipline is the answer.

Too often, service learning prioritizes students over the people with whom they work, Randy Stoecker argues in a new book.

In a changing market, authors increasingly find themselves negotiating with publishers to see their work to completion, even after they successfully navigate academic peer review, writes, Michael S. Evans. The solution is to make journal acceptance portable.

Open access is not fully realized without open peer review, which would provide opportunities for scholarly dialogue and critique throughout the writing process and beyond, argues Alex Mueller.

Study by faculty members at West Point finds students perform better academically when laptops and tablets are banned from the classroom.

Controversial Ball State U professor earns tenure despite past allegations that he pushed creationism in the science classroom.

The mission of land-grant universities can encourage philosophy as a discipline to return to an outward focus that addresses the most complex challenges of our time, write Christopher P. Long and Michael O'Rourke.