The state’s Board of Higher Education voted to approve the money for Chicago State, Eastern Illinois, and Western Illinois Universities.

A former tutor says she took entrance exams and entire courses for student-athletes.

Ms. DeVos is also a former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party.

Concerns about Yik Yak and analysis of MOOCs and online teaching were among the most popular stories this past year on our Wired Campus blog.

The Chronicle is seeking suggestions for our annual feature on people trying to solve big problems facing campuses with the help of technology.

The technology has powerful implications in distance learning. At the University of Maryland, researchers are using it in projects involving health care, public safety, and education.

Need to scan a few photos quickly? There's an app for that — and, as Amy Cavender notes, it does a reasonably good job.

Jason Jones looks at ways Slack and other groups are using emoji to make group communications more relevant.

A better way to teach technical skills: detailed, illustrated tutorials that involve introducing participants to new and unfamiliar technologies.

We are not "normalizing" Donald Trump but bringing our own ethics and mores into accordance with a very different set of standards, says Lucy Ferriss.

Ben Yagoda tracks the president-elect's poor spelling, thin skin, self-aggrandizement, and occasional graciousness and subtlety. But he can't find any reaction to hateful harassment and threats since the election.

Anne Curzan considers the case for another spelling reform, which would undo some historical meddling into English orthography.

A change in his students' usage causes Bill Germano to reflect on the senses of base — the release from and the foundation upon.

The journalist Salena Zito came up with the antimetabole that "the press takes [Trump] literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally." How valid was her formulation? Ben Yagoda explains.