Due to be released in March at the AFT/NEA National Higher Education Issues conference, the 2008 issue of American Academic will also be available online at www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_academic/index.htm. Here are some of the articles that will appear:

"Faculty Diversity" by Lezli Baskerville

"The Trouble with Faculty Diversity" by Walter Benn-Michaels

"Can the Academy Live the Work and Walk the Talk? Lessons Learned from a Long-Term Faculty Dialogue about Racism" by Stephanie Cox Suárez

"Tenure Denied: Cases of Sex Discrimination in Academia" by Catherine Hill and Sarah Warbelow

"Why ‘Diversity' Should Include ‘Disability'" by Sara D. Knapp

"Faculty Diversity in the Heart of Dixie" by Derryn Moten

"Establishing Effective Mentoring Relationships for Faculty, Especially Across Gender and Ethnicity, to Increase Retention" by Lynn S. Shollen, Carole J. Bland, Anne L. Taylor, Anne Marie Weber-Main and Patricia A. Mulcahy

"Do Organizational Structures and Strategies Increase Faculty Diversity? A Cultural Analysis" by William G. Tierney and Margaret W. Sallee

"Building Academic Excellence through Gender Equity" by Joan C. Williams and Donna L. Norton