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Brent Chesley found himself the only faculty member on a committee of administrators. He shares the experience.

Wick Sloane recommends a Massachusetts union's trenchant series of reports on the foibles of higher education finance.

Sure, digital humanists can count how often Huckleberry Finn says "ain't," but that's not the point. Scott McLemee looks at a caricature -- and the real thing.

It's time for higher education leaders to admit that the way they treat those off the tenure track is unethical, and to commit to change, write Adrianna Kezar, David Longanecker and Daniel Maxey.

The deans with the greatest challenge today may be those who lead liberal arts divisions, writes Michael Bugeja, who says it's time they received some support.

Lucinda Roy, a Virginia Tech professor who reported concerns about Seung-Hui Cho before he killed, writes that the idea of arming faculty members is foolish and dangerous.

In wake of numerous reports of colleges submitting false information, Myron Roomkin argues that institutions should audit the data they share publicly about their academic performance.

On a literary lecture tour in China, Martin Puchner finds much interest in how American authors responded to industrialization in the 19th and 20th centuries.