Dec. 18, 2015

They spoke out about racism.

She helped make trigger warnings a campus debate.

The firm has professionalized hiring and injected more secrecy, too.

He pulled together a group of colleges to rethink how students apply.

She pushed back on a culture of victimization.

She spurred a rallying cry for women in science.

He forced a reckoning with deep problems in science.

He repealed state laws that protected tenure and shared governance.

She translated the economics of higher education for a broad audience.

She led an insurgency to keep Sweet Briar College open.

The National Institutes of Health turns toward the “invisible glue” of research universities to help with a glut of postdocs.

What you need to know about the past seven days.

The essay spoke for and through its time, writes the essayist herself. But now she sees that it was rooted in her own relationship to Hollywood.

Lecturing in a toga risks ridicule, but risk is part of the lesson.

Its opacity notwithstanding, Mulvey’s theory cleared the way for further challenges to “the look” of others.

Colleges should incorporate the ugly history of bigotry into their curricula.

Four decades later, Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” continues to illuminate.

The players in films may have changed over the past 40 years, but the narrative remains the same.

Dietary reformers have long given us ethically infused advice to chew on.

Mulvey’s essay captured an enduring ambivalence about cinema.

Mary Pope Hutson, the new vice president, was part of a group that sued to keep the women’s college open.

A book by a poet and marine zoologist inspires a university president to think more deeply about word meanings.

Assessing Study Abroad: Theory, Tools, and Practice, edited by Victor Savicki and Elizabeth Brewer (Stylus Publishing; 344 pages; $95 hardcover, $35 paperback). Combines theoretical perspectives with case studies to examine what is achieved by study abroad. Black Men in the Academy: Narratives of…

Thanks to educators and pastors, fear of Muslims is steadily taking root in Christian theology.

The activism of 50 years ago laid the groundwork for the campus unrest of today.

On many campuses, students, not professors, are the ones pushing for change.

Justice Antonin Scalia drew widespread condemnation by raising the idea that black students might fare better at “less-advanced” colleges. Scholars have been studying — and debating — the “mismatch” theory he referenced for years.

As the justices heard oral arguments on race-conscious admissions, protesters discussed links between college access and the demonstrations over racial climate that have recently roiled campuses.

In revisiting a challenge to the University of Texas at Austin’s consideration of race, the justices pressed lawyers for data showing whether the policy is necessary.

Studies suggest that when minorities account for 35 percent of the student body, a campus’s climate improves. But researchers hesitate to endorse a specific figure for diversity goals.

With many Muslim students fearing for their safety in a contentious political climate, Muslim professors and students say their roles as campus leaders are shifting before their eyes.

Leaders of historically black colleges say there’s reason to be concerned about professors’ being poached by wealthier institutions. But they can make a convincing case for faculty to stay where they are.

Student hunger and homelessness appear more widespread than many campus leaders had realized. Hattie Elmore, director of a program that helps students at a New York college navigate money and housing problems, talks about the issues she confronts daily.

Colleges face growing pressure to hire more minority professors, but the latest data show little progress in awarding more doctorates to black students.

How much do we play into the professorial stereotype that our students want us to portray?

President Sari Feldman of the American Library Association discusses programs that preserve tweets as well as books.