Sept. 25, 2015

Recent research suggests that the body is the brain. The part between our ears is not in charge.

Wendy Laura Belcher traces how the continent’s literature has influenced, and not just been influenced by, Western narratives.

The author abhorred it, except when he yearned for it.

Sven Birkerts seeks the fleeting human spirit in our pixelated wasteland.

When gender identity collides with subject-verb agreement, something’s gotta give.

What you need to know about the past seven days.

To help students learn, one university tries to make teaching transparent.

The costs can be high, but, as one president puts it, repairing campus facilities says a lot to parents and prospective students about how much a college cares about itself.

The Best Kind of College: An Insiders’ Guide to America’s Small Liberal Arts Colleges, edited by Susan McWilliams and John E. Seery (State University of New York Press; 303 pages; $80). Writings by 30 award-winning professors on the virtues of teaching, learning, career, and community at small…

If federal subsidies go mostly to state institutions, as presidential candidates have proposed, many small private colleges will have to close their doors.

Recent attacks on colleges’ endowments betray a fundamental misunderstanding about their purpose and function.

The number of doctoral students in the arts and humanities fell from 2009 to 2014, says a new report. For some, the change is long overdue.

In seeking to take a stand against statements that offend, the California system’s leaders have managed to pick a fight with free-speech advocates and many others.

For parents and students, a great deal of the current uncertainty about selecting a college may vanish overnight. Not so for colleges.

The jury is out on whether Tennessee’s two-year colleges are siphoning off students from elsewhere. But some four-year institutions are working harder to attract them.

The revamped tool includes some new numbers on graduates’ earnings. But it has limits — as do state websites that collect wage data.

Sen. Bernie Sanders delivered a speech at Liberty University — a sign of how far the presidential hopeful and the institution have come in expanding their profiles.

From the clamor surrounding Sweet Briar’s planned shutdown, you’d think that a college had never closed before. The work of two self-appointed archivists says otherwise.

When research projects broadcast candidates’ party affiliation in nonpartisan campaigns or ask drivers to break traffic laws, are they stepping over the line?

Critics of the businessman’s selection as president say they’re skeptical that the process played out fairly.

Students will be able file a key form earlier, using tax data from two years earlier. The payoff: quicker information about their eligibility for aid.

Of course you haven’t. But Cow Country — a newish novel that one critic thought was secretly written by the famous author — takes on the subject.

Current thinking views higher education as job training. That’s a mistake.

The university’s online bachelor’s degree program has not attracted as many out-of-state students as officials had hoped it would.

Any doctoral reform has to happen under the Ph.D. banner to avoid being demeaned as a second-class substitute.