By Colleen Flaherty. Faculty members are critical agents in student success but are surprisingly underemployed in that effort, according to a new paper from the Education Advisory Board, a best practices firm advising college and university administrators. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. College of Charleston professor says he's been forced out of a job for refusing to list learning outcomes to please an accreditor. He's suing and says academic freedom is being violated. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Employees of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York and Yale Universities sued their respective institutions on Tuesday for allegedly allowing them to be charged excessive fees on their retirement savings, The New York Times reported. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. After an alleged harasser holds on to a powerful academic position, professors try to limit his influence, in part by excluding his work from their syllabi. Is that the right strategy. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Academics fact-check the persistent idea, promoted at GOP convention, that liberal professors politically indoctrinate their students. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Students may no longer apply to the Master’s International program with ties to the Peace Corps on any campus, The Keene Sentinelreported. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Hamilton College's new requirement that all majors incorporate diversity into their curricula sparks debate about what constitutes diversity and where it's best studied. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. It’s hard to separate Lincoln University in Missouri from its history: after the Civil War, veterans of the 62nd and 65th U.S. Colored Infantries headed back to the Midwest from Texas and Louisiana, where they had served, to establish a school for African-Americans. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. With lawsuit seeking the right to keep guns out of their classrooms, three UT Austin professors try to reshape the debate over campus carry. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Vassar professors want to reduce their teaching loads, but some question a new plan to do so at the expense of course offerings. Read more...