Cornell University names president; Ozarks Technical Community College gets new provost.

Anna Deavere Smith, master of documentary theater, talks about personal narrative, empathy, and colleges’ potential to reach vulnerable students and to disrupt cliques.

Alarmed by the spread of unreliable news sites, Melissa Zimdars started keeping a list of the worst offenders. She had no idea how popular — or controversial — that list would become.

City College of the City University of New York names an interim president; Stanford University chooses its engineering dean as provost.

A University of California professor who just wrote a book about public higher education in shambles talks about restoring support, kludging administrators, and California noir.

Marvin Krislov, president of Oberlin College, reflects on student demands, inauthentic bánh mì, and the tumultuous final years of his decade-long term.

To help relieve the state’s doctor shortage, Barbara Ross-Lee is leading a site of NYIT’s College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State.

A law dean considers what law schools should teach, now that more legal work is handled by artificial intelligence.

With the golden age of higher education over, a book argues, it’s important for each institution to differentiate itself.

The new titles cover such topics as the transformation of the faculty and student-affairs leadership.

Robin Forman, Tulane University’s new provost, says math helped prepare him for the enormous intricacies at universities.

The former Harvard professor who once led Canada’s Liberal Party hopes he can help reform graduate education through his new role.

To prepare for today’s challenging conversations, says a college-consortium leader, we need to encourage students to practice respect.

Paula A. Johnson, a medical doctor, has a long history of breaking barriers to leadership.

A book about 1930s Alabama reminds an English professor of the unalloyed racism that still exists today.