Jan. 22, 2016

We must redesign college education with individuality in mind.

The support they need to overcome barriers to aspirational careers comes too little, too late.

A book on the big-money culture of college football is a cautionary tale for the entire academic enterprise, a professor says.

Steve Kay says he and Peter Schultz want to bring discoveries made by scientists “further down the value chain.”

Universities should join forces for programs that tap their combined strengths.

The National Institutes of Health, for one, is building a national database to link minority students to informal advisers at other universities or within companies, with plans for training in “culturally responsive mentoring.”

In flashes of overwhelming experience, he transcended despair.

How did her adopted nation influence her thinking?

Professors are tempted to do almost anything to engage and inspire their students.

Too many efforts to stem global warming focus exclusively on the hard sciences.

Colleges should be allowed to use preferences for underrepresented minorities — and to do so explicitly.

Cross-disciplinary work should increase understanding of, and respect for, one another’s fields.

In the State of the Union Address, the president sounds upbeat. On Wheaton College’s campus, some students sound distressed. And David Bowie’s music still sounds rebellious.

Awards and prizes January 22: Professional fields. The Society of Professional Journalists is accepting entries for the Mark of Excellence Awards, which honors student journalists. Entries are welcome for print, radio, television, and online collegiate journalism. The contest is open to anyone…

Top Chief Executives Cazenovia College, Ronald Chesbrough Cuyahoga Community College Western Campus, Donna Imhoff Johnson & Wales University-North Miami, Larry Rice Kalamazoo College, Jorge Gonzalez National University, David Andrews NewSchool of Architecture and Design, Marvin Malecha Pennsylvania…

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

The case of Larycia Hawkins resonates beyond the Illinois campus because it’s a cautionary tale for all institutions, faith-based and secular, that seek to protect their core beliefs.

Last year PLOS ONE published 10 percent fewer papers than it did two years ago. Its editors say that’s a sign that more major publishers are taking open-access publications seriously.

The 12 kinds of email a professor got after she became a national spectacle.

The national poll sheds light on racial disparities between students who feel prepared for college and those who don’t.

If we expand service-learning projects to include collaboration, what new types of learning might we discover?

A dispute at Wheaton College of Illinois that started with a Facebook post about Christianity and Islam could end in a professor’s dismissal. For other faculty members at the evangelical Christian institution, that raises troubling questions.

Three years ago, President Obama directed federal agencies to conduct or sponsor research on gun violence. The flow of those dollars to such projects is still small, but signs are growing that other groups are interested in supporting the work.

This is why professors who quit academe can’t stop talking about it.

Bernard J. Milano, president of the Ph.D. Project — a nonprofit organization committed to diversifying the faculty ranks at the nation’s business schools — talks about how the Ph.D. Project works, its track record, and why faculty diversity matters.