Faculty Issues

Study calls Spellings Commission recommendation "misleading" because of wide differences in outcomes by academic discipline.

Research university group plans voluntary accountability system, but Spellings panel chairman knocks pace of reporting.

Education Dept. offers compromise on measuring learning outcomes, but colleges say plan would still "federalize" accreditation.

Shakespeare wrote one of the most savage plays in the canon. Scott McLemee visits the dark side.

Students not enrolled full time have less faculty interaction -- and so do full-timers at colleges with many part-timers, study finds.

AFT seeks to reshape the debate about a core value by emphasizing issues of job security, or lack thereof, for adjuncts.

Here's why the work of a U.S. panel reviewing federal rules on accreditation matters.

More colleges offer incentives for tenured professors to end careers -- sometimes through gradual shift away from full-time work, report finds.