Faculty

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.

By Scott McLemee

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

By José Antonio Bowen

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.

By 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.

West Virginia University defends right of Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos to speak, but also right of students and faculty members to answer back when he attacked a professor who advocates for gay and minority students.

New book highlights intellectual property practices that the author says are dangerous for the public's interest in higher ed.