We urge OU to affirm the right of instructors to teach, grade, and research without political interference, unlawful mandates ...

Warnings about the decline of the liberal arts are ubiquitous these days, but they are hardly new. Jacques Barzun, the renowned scholar and dean at Columbia University, pronounced the liberal arts ...

The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance: Professionalization and the Modern American University by Larry G. Gerber. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Larry G. Gerber, professor ...

Before the COVID-19 global pandemic, before the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and before the summer of 2020 with its many protests and public statements calling on this ...

In the last decade, conservatives have launched multiple attacks on faculty tenure in higher education. As we understandably focus on these episodes in states such as Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, ...

The AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure approved a statement in June that called on colleges across the United States and Canada to reconsider their partnerships with Chinese language ...

In 2025, the size of the global executive search market will likely exceed $58 billion, and by 2030 it could approach $95 billion. This year, the United States is estimated to ac­count for about $10.3 ...

Most faculty members have been asked by those working under the umbrella of the student affairs division to attend workshops on (and even give over instructional time to) matters with which the ...

Early on in my first tenure-track job at Michigan State University, in the late 1970s, I happened to be riding the same train from Lansing, Michigan, to Chicago as the department chair who hired me, ...

Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education by Yingyi Ma. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. In the past fifteen years, the increasing ...

The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) defines accreditation in higher education as “a collegial process of self-review and peer review for improvement of academic quality and public ...

Campuses have become increasingly polarized in recent years, with the individuals and groups that populate them drawing firmer lines around their allies and enemies. Hardly a week seems to pass ...