Faculty Issues

Husband-and-wife professors at Yale law school (she gave us the "Tiger Mother" debate) publish book about why some racial and ethnic groups are more successful than others. And no, it's not because they value education.

At one small liberal arts college, retiring professors get one last chance to teach that course they've always wanted to.

U. of Colorado releases extraordinary report about sex bias and incivility in department, and brings in outside chair to change the culture. Move comes in a discipline regularly criticized for lack of support for women.

President joins the ranks of politicians who suggest liberal arts disciplines don't lead to jobs.

Editors discuss themes in new book of essays, written by multiracial college students.

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are penetrating pop culture, and it's not even Poetry Month. Carolyn Foster Segal explains why she finds hope in that happenstance.

After many years in which professors and administrators clashed at Baylor, President Kenneth Starr has won over the faculty.