Faculty Issues

Anthropologists, furious that research may have inspired some Abu Ghraib tactics, vow not to assist in torture.

Listen to some critics of higher education, and you'll hear constant calls for more accountability and assessment. Colleges don't do...

While ETSs paper backs national measures of student outcomes, a discussion reveals differences with U.S. commission's approach.

By now, it is widely accepted that curricular efforts to "engage" students -- to involve them deeply in the process...

Rice killed its press a decade ago. Now it will return -- with all materials online, but with peer review system akin to print operations.

State college groups flesh out plan for members to make public a "bundle of information" about learning climate and student outcomes.

Calif. community college district is using bonds to provide retiree benefits -- and to free up money for current faculty members.

As federal panel talks of testing what students learn, college officials accept accountability but fear a national mandate.