Melissa Bruninga-Mattaeu is a single mother who relies on food stamps and Medicaid to survive. Her take-home pay is $900 a month, of which $750 goes to rent and $40 goes to gas. Where does she work? She's a PhD who teaches humanities courses at a state college in Arizona.

Yes, finals week -- where Adderall is God's gift to procrastinating college students, Starbucks and Red Bull is more coveted than tequila and Budweiser, and social media sites become used more than textbooks.

More Americans from every color and creed are now earning college educations so college faculty should reflect that. While students can certainly learn from people outside their own sex, ethnicity and belief system, faculty with similar backgrounds provide stronger role models.

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Pablo Pomposiello, Biotechnologist The short answer: I was denied tenure at the University o...

The students were paying me zero attention, the thread of dialogue was going in a different direction than I had planned, and I felt like a complete failure as a member of the faculty. And then, the actual professor asked the class a question and I quickly remembered, "Oh... yeah... this isn't my course."

Hopefully not last on your list of your on-campus priorities, the courses you are taking require work, time-management, and careful dealing with an unusual form of life known as universitatis professor, or, in simple English, the college professor.

College administrators will continue to rely heavily on adjunct instructors and faculty who won't be eligible for tenure, according to a new poll of h...

I view the campus now as my work space -- and feel liberated from a cloistered office. I can rationalize that my office is now far bigger than it was during my deanship. Still, I do miss having my own bathroom.

All life is stressful, and academic life is no exception. The wise professor is one who tries to relieve some of that stress, or at the very least, not to make it worse.

The challenge facing students today is how to go from being one amongst the blur of hundreds to a recognizable face, especially should you plan to ask for a recommendation or career help.

College professors have the least stressful job in America, beating out seamstresses, according to a new ranking from CareerCast.com, and it's causing...

Over several days, Redditors have been tossing around what they call "money saving, grade boosting, life altering tips" to fellow college students. ...

The rising cost of textbooks has been vexing college administrators for decades. Then there is Southern New Hampshire University. SNHU President Paul Leblanc decided recently to use a novel approach to fight the high cost of textbooks.

Sometimes it is hard to get a hold of your professor. We are sure they are doing worthy things such as teaching other people or doing research, but s...

Pardon me for being so bold, but... What's so bad about TAs? In my eyes, comparing a professor and a TA isn't necessarily about one being better than the other. Rather, I think they offer two very different teaching styles.

Ever have a professor that wasn't up to snuff? Too boring or too specialized, or merely too hard to find? Haven't we all. The Princeton Review rec...

Here is an experience almost all faculty have periodically: taking on a class assignment for a topic they haven't taught before, and that possibly falls outside their area of expertise.

Have you ever gotten an assignment and said to yourself, "I do NOT want to do this!" Unemployedprofessors.com, a website for the ethically challeng...