Faculty

As postelection protests continue, tactic people associate with the Vietnam era returns -- and so does debate about symbolism, patriotism and history.

Scott McLemee delves into The Quantified Self by Deborah Lupton, a study of how digital self-tracking is insinuating itself into every nook and cranny of human experience.

By Scott McLemee

Book argues that faculty’s diminishing influence puts higher education at risk. Suggested interventions include changing tenure to save it -- namely by ending it for professors at 70 years of age.

The traditional definition of at-risk students is wrong, and we need to do more to help students caught in an institutional blind spot, write Angela Baldasare, Melissa Vito and Vincent J. Del Casino Jr.

By Angela Baldasare et al.

Leaders of state universities hear differing views on how to uphold academic values at a time when many students feel under siege and misunderstood.

Research suggests that new courses at liberal arts colleges these days may increasingly be coming from practical fields.

A new book argues that friendship isn’t necessarily a distraction in college but may be essential to academic success.

Presidents of tiny liberal arts colleges work to make themselves heard above talk of mergers and large institutions.