Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

What is the job of a professor? A professor differs from a regular teacher in that he or she has attained the highest rank in the academic profession. Full professors differ from adjunct, assistant ...

Amy Wax and free speech groups say the university is trampling on her academic freedom. Students ask whether her speech deserves to be protected. The University of Pennsylvania law school has been ...

Maura Finkelstein is one of many scholars discovering that the traditional protections of academic freedom are no longer holding. Maura Finkelstein at her home in Brooklyn in April.Credit...Stefan ...

Colleges and universities have long exuded a beguiling aura of accessibility and elusiveness, especially if you find yourself on the outside looking in, wanting to become a full-time professor.

Being a university professor is in no way the least stressful job for 2013. In fact, 2013 is likely to be one of the worst years to be a university professor. But many pixels are being spent across ...

What’s the most fulfilling part of being a professor? When Ben Y. Zhao, a professor of computer science at UC-Santa Barbara answered the question at Quora (later republished at Slate), he listed some ...

A Texas A&M University professor was suspended, investigated and ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing for allegedly criticizing Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick during a lecture about the opioid crisis. The ...

First, the term professor refers to a rank in an academic setting for those who teach in higher education, it does not indicate the type of degree one has. Usually, the rank goes from the instructor ...

A number of seniors at Texas A&M University–Commerce who already walked the stage at graduation this year have been temporarily denied their diplomas after a professor ineptly used AI software to ...

As academics get older, their roles and functions at a research university evolve. Throughout the academic lifespan, there are diverse and changing ideas, conceptions, and goals concerning academic ...