Is delivering video courses and short quizzes all it takes to develop knowledge and skills?

Across higher education, executive searches are growing in number and cost. Colleges and their governing boards should exercise caution before signing on the dotted line.

Eight presidents consider what they wish they had learned before taking the top job.

Intangibles are what make a campus a community, which is worth remembering as we try to bridge the divisions that the presidential race exposed.

His tax-reform plan holds the key to making college affordable again.

If students, alumni, board members, and other leaders pull together, they can help launch a renewal in the sector.

A college president identifies some of them and suggests a united front in response.

Those in the academy should focus on getting more women and faculty of color into the influential professorships. We can make the pipeline.

Let’s not spend the next four years whining. Let’s raise our voices for justice, equity, and the liberation of the American psyche from the demons that haunted us in this election.

The Education Department will probably survive. Free college, not so much.

Board members have a duty, both legal and ethical, to be fully engaged in the hiring of a new leader and in the months that follow.

But it can be regained, college by college, with a commitment to define a compelling, shared vision.

Division I sports leaders must act with a greater sense of urgency to prioritize the educational aspect of intercollegiate athletics, say the head of the Knight Commission and a former U.S. education secretary.

In his book Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance demonstrates how relatively tiny differences in culture can make an enormous difference in access.

The '60s radical called on universities to be a humanizing force, liberating us to think and act in new ways. That’s a tough sell in 2016.

He was the most thoughtful and articulate voice on a host of educational issues.

It's time to look at diversity within subfields. If all of a department's minority faculty members share the same specialty, is the department truly diverse?

Rousseau and Thucydides can shed light on our era, a historian argues.

He had enormous impact on higher education. But in his later years, his work on two of his great interests were especially influential.

Our quest for efficiency could sever a crucial connection to the past.

The leader of a Catholic college within a public university says religion will never disappear from human experience, any more than will rejection and critiques of religion.

To help students find their way in the new arts economy, we must teach them to market, produce, and present their own ideas.

Conversations about what a student truly needs and what a college can reasonably offer should be part of the admissions process.