To improve civic literacy and ease student-loan debt, a voluntary national-service program for high-school graduates, leading to two years of a free college education, is an idea worth considering.

The university will hire more teaching-focused faculty members and cut enrollments in hundreds of courses.

Jonathan I. Levy, who earned his Ph.D. in history at Chicago, says the university offers attractive opportunities for collaboration.

Steven Bahls, president of Augustana College, in Illinois, says the book reminded him of the importance of listening.

What you need to know about the past seven days.

Two online publications, Campus Reform and The College Fix, have found ways to make conservative anger at colleges go viral.

With external concerns preoccupying presidents, colleges look to chief academic officers to lead innovation and build consensus.

Top colleges have become more diverse, but they’re still bastions of elitism.

Neuroscience doesn’t even begin to explain aesthetic understanding and response.

Is mathematical symmetry the key to unlocking nature’s mysteries?

The plagiarism-detection tool efficiently dispenses with a laborious task. But is it fair to students?

Instructions on handling a social-media firestorm, from colleges that should know.

A growing protest movement on the Columbia campus shows how quickly and easily tensions can flare up over their issues.

Affirmative-consent rules set clear standards for what’s required of students. They’re also changing how colleges adjudicate alleged assaults.

A court filing by New York’s attorney general paints a deeply unflattering — if disputed — portrait of the institution’s leaders.

The Wisconsin governor has taken an aggressive stance on the role of college. It’s one that has left professors troubled.

J. Bruce Harreld, a career businessman, visited the campus on Tuesday. While openness to nonacademic leaders has grown, it’s still an idea that makes some uneasy.

A scholar took an irreverent stand against a common academic criticism and watched his paper go viral. But there’s a serious point in the paper’s vulgar title.

The disabled professor who wrote a censored essay for Northwestern University’s medical journal speaks out.

The project tried to replicate the results of 100 psychology studies. Only 39 percent withstood scrutiny.

How academe can open up debate about the future of doctoral education to graduate students.

We no longer seek perfection in thought or art, war or faith — but we can do better.