Faculty Issues

A new book maps the corporate genome of composition studies. Scott McLemee has a look.

The way professors prefer to teach may not match the way students can gain the most, writes Robert J. Sternberg.

Brendan Boyle considers the fictions of summer reading programs.

The leaders of two student surveys -- used by hundreds of colleges but questioned lately by some researchers -- defend their projects.

State board approves joint bargaining unit for tenure-track and adjunct professors, but administration vows to go to court to block a single chapter.

Politicians and academics occupy different spheres. Scott McLemee looks at a new book on statecraft and scholarship.

The latest book to suggest that American higher education needs to face up to a period of radical change is...

Survey finds that male and female college students pursue science and technology degrees for different reasons -- and they agree that K-12 preparation should be improved.