Faculty Issues

With the start of a new academic year -- and a new crop of freshmen leaving home for the first...

California's community colleges toughen graduation requirements. Some see changes as overdue; others fear standards are too high.

While many professors still distrust the popular encyclopedia, some have joined a new effort in which they will work with students to improve entries.

The only meaningful way to help adjuncts is to grant them tenure, writes Cary Nelson. And that will require full support from those who have tenure.

Daytona State says switching to only electronic textbooks will lighten the cost burden on students.

Susquehanna U. Press is placed "on hiatus." Move follows decisions at Rice, Scranton and SMU.

Once, the e-book reader was a futuristic fantasy. Scott McLemee faces the ambivalence of living it out.

Just about any discussion of academic hiring these days, after the natural focus on the tight market, tends to come...