What you need to know about the past seven days.

In a world of perpetual material insecurity, the humanities really are a luxury.

What would it take to bring civility to the web?

Primo Levi’s voice of compassionate reason is an antitoxin to our age of bluster and bilge.

How has the “war on terror” affected the millennial mind-set?

History and historians are taken for granted. But if they have no future, you have no past.

Data mining puts a high-tech spin on the age-old competition for students.

David Rosenfield first taught psychology at Southern Methodist in 1976. Much later he set out to join the permanent faculty again.

Ginger Clark, a professor of clinical education at the University of Southern California, says non-tenure-track faculty members have gained in status there.

Ivy on the walls is not what helps students succeed, a university president concludes after reading a book on admissions mania.

David Smith-Soto, a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso, opposes a new state law that will allow guns on campuses. He quickly registered his dismay after the governor signed the bill into law.

A tangled investigation highlights the many challenges prosecutors face in some cases.

College officials can use the tool to compare strategies for preventing underage and dangerous alcohol use, based on what research says about their effectiveness and cost.

A criminology journal’s meteoric rise in impact factor seemed like a Cinderella story. But a researcher now demonstrates how easy it is for publications to pump up their own citation stats.

Unlike his predecessors, the visiting Pope Francis appears unlikely to push Catholic institutions to uphold doctrine in ways that alienate faculty members.

With two colleagues dead, faculty members at Delta State University wrench at loss that defies explanation.

The results provide a sweeping look at the prevalence of sexual misconduct on campuses. But some experts said it might be hard to compare the findings to others.

The university has advertised a tenure-track position that is open-discipline and open-department, prompting speculation that the listing is a hoax. Here’s the real story.

Much has been written about the new consumer tool. Now, let’s hear from some of the students it’s meant to help.

With the humanities under siege, the Council of Independent Colleges concludes a three-year campaign to emphasize the value of a liberal-arts degree.

Four law professors tried to persuade a live audience in New York to side with either courts or colleges.

How could a 2001 study of the drug Paxil get the facts so wrong? A team of volunteer researchers spent two years trying to find out.

On average, male biomedical researchers received start-up packages nearly two-and-a-half times larger than those awarded to female scholars.

Critics have long grumbled that “disruptive innovation” is just a buzz term. Now a new study casts far more substantial doubt on the popular theory.