Faculty Issues

Wisconsin regents aren’t done changing the way faculty members are evaluated. This time, they are seeking to give administrators independent power over posttenure reviews -- a move faculty groups oppose.

In a democracy, students need to learn to live with a high tolerance for ambiguity, writes José Antonio Bowen.

New book explores different classroom strategies for teaching first-generation, underrepresented students.

In Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Hotel, author Christopher P. Dum portrays not only inescapable squalor but also efforts to create order in seriously damaged lives, writes Scott McLemee.

Focus on any single labor market metric to judge colleges’ outcomes will create flawed policy, but a mix of such measures can help evaluate institutions’ performance, scholarly study finds.

When we as professors step outside the regular habits of the classroom, we can make a difference in how students see themselves and approach their own learning, writes Esteban Loustaunau.

Author discusses new book about how arrival of women in American higher education changed colleges’ sense of moral mission.

Is “identity liberalism,” widespread on college campuses, to blame for Donald Trump’s rise? Scholars are divided.