Restricting academic freedom is often thought of in terms of universities telling professors what they can and cannot do or teach. But that isn’t the only scenario.
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Nationally, about 11 male educators die by suicide for every 100,000 people, compared with a rate of almost 23 for all Americans.
Should a rap album be counted as a scholarly work? We asked a scholar who makes hip-hop and hit the recording studio to earn his Ph.D.
From educational gag orders to the decline of tenure-track positions, academic freedom in the United States has been worsening in recent years.
Laws that scrap diversity, equity and inclusion programs on campus are likely to result in less support for LGBTQ+ students, a psychology professor explains.
9 Black women who were working on or recently earned their PhDs told a researcher they felt isolated and shut out.
Scholars say Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s schools, universities and museums are part of an ongoing project to destroy Palestinian people, identity and ideas.
Politics and the lack of compensation are among the factors that can undermine the peer review process, which is important to the quality of knowledge in academic journals.
As the professor class has shrunk, so has the number of PhD graduates.
Scholars differ over whether having students use AI in their assignments will help or hurt their careers after graduation.
Ghanaian traditional gender norms are the main barrier to Ghanaian women pursuing academic careers.
Educators need to carefully consider ChatGPT and issues of academic integrity to move toward an assessment system that leverages AI tools.
The ability of professors to freely teach and write about controversial topics without fear of retribution is nothing new.
The author of a book collecting the experiences of college professors who teach in prisons explains how they are changed by the experience.
Different professors teach differently. If you’re a student with choices in a program, it makes sense to find out what you’re getting.
Despite being the subject of criticism and negative news, business schools do a lot of good for society, a veteran business professor explains in a new book.
Over the course of a career and retirement, gender pay gaps lead to a difference of roughly half-a-million dollars for women professors relative to their male counterparts.
Faculty in a cross-country survey recommended modifying metrics used to gauge productivity to account for the differential impacts of the pandemic on women and racialized faculty.
Where policies do address online abuse and harassment, they’re largely ineffective in a world where academics engage with people in a variety of public platforms and through social media.
Professors of color are few and far between at America’s business schools. Hidden obstacles in the search process help explain why.
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Education, University of Florida
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Programme Officer for Research (Higher Education), Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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Associate Professor, Tarleton State University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, King's University College, Western University
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