Faculty Issues

Lumina releases draft "profile" of what students at various levels should know and be able to do, regardless of discipline; accreditors and private colleges to test it.

Landing a job in today’s economy is tough for most college graduates. For those seeking a career in the fine...

While faculty endlessly debate general education and requirements for the major, they should also focus on the potential of electives, writes Dan Edelstein.

If part-time faculty members assembled the equivalent course duties of a full-time job at a Pennsylvania community college, they still...

Voluntary accountability system for community colleges releases first draft set of standards for small group of two-year institutions to test.

If the purpose of a college education is for students to learn, academe is failing, according to Academically Adrift: Limited...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" is a feminist classic. Scott McLemee looks into the story behind the story.

Digital journal aggregators move en masse to join Google in making full-length books available in searchable archives.