Feb. 12, 2016

Goucher College’s José Antonio Bowen thinks the admissions process is “insane.” To fix it, he’s calling on the skills he developed as a musician.

Arthur Dunning says the newly consolidated institution will emphasize preparing students for jobs.

Sweet Briar’s new president says things are looking up, students at the University of Oxford want a statue of Cecil Rhodes to come down, and a Suffolk University squabble hits the newspapers.

Enforcing a strong work ethic is the best way to prepare students to compete in the workplace.

A book describes a faculty diversity effort that has been so successful that many people would like to take credit for it.

On the trail of a centuries-old Hamlet mystery.

Literature can help cure historical amnesia.

Their free-market theories are governed by an intellectual command economy.

On campuses and the national stage alike, skepticism toward extremes and certitudes is always wise, if rarely chic.

The best teachers create a world where they’re no longer needed.

To the Editor: Benjamin Breen reviewed my book, The Invention of Science, and Steven Weinberg’s book, To Explain The World (“Vial and Error,” January 15). I will not try your patience by defending myself. But I feel I should spring to the defense of Steven Weinberg on one simple, fundamental point.…

To the Editor: Having retired after 50-plus years of teaching at U.S. universities, I beg to differ with Todd Rose and Ogi Ogas’s conclusion about what is truly at fault regarding the organization of our universities (“The Faulty Foundation of American Colleges,” January 22). The fundamental…

To the Editor: I can imagine that the life Hannah Arendt lived in America could inform her “life of the mind” in ways the books she read in America might not. If Richard H. King’s book Arendt and America omitted how her years of life among the Americans mattered, the reviewer Charles Clavey…

To the Editor: I thank John Herron for his helpful and informative summary of my book Lincoln’s Ethics (“Lincoln the Political Operator,” December 11). However, I disagree with two of Herron’s criticisms. 1. Herron writes, “When the Whigs dissolved, he joined cause with the Republicans but also a…

Expressing the same frustrations in 1975 as they do today, some part-time instructors made early attempts to organize.

Top Chief Executives Western College, Daniel Corr Arizona Elizabeth City State University, Thomas Conway Jr. Hawaii Pacific University, John Yukio Gotanda San Jose State University, Mary Papazian Appointments Martin Ahumada, vice president for academic affairs, to interim president of Dine College.…

Awards and prizes February 16: Academic affairs. Active Minds invites applications for the 2016 Active Minds Healthy Campus Award, which celebrates leadership, innovation, collaboration, and excellence in campus health. The award recognizes U.S. colleges and universities that are prioritizing…

The University of Michigan at Flint has long considered itself loyal to its community. Now campus leaders have been challenged to prove what that loyalty is worth.

Big gifts are critical, but with concerns about the future of the liberal-arts institutions, some would-be donors are asking tougher questions before giving.

Nearly three months after the University of Missouri’s top two officials resigned amid student protests, Michael Middleton leads an institution still wrestling with its path forward.

Christine Ortiz, a dean of graduate education, envisions a new kind of college, built from scratch for today’s needs and with today’s technology.

The president of Mount St. Mary’s University of Maryland has drawn fire for comments about steering underperforming freshmen from the campus. He says bad communication turned the situation messy.

Groups designed to respond quickly to offensive speech on campuses are becoming more popular. Here’s what they do.

Getting into and through college involves a string of complex decisions. Researchers are increasingly using behavioral interventions to help.

The social network for sharing academic papers says the idea is just under consideration, not a done deal, but the critics have responded with outrage on Twitter.

A new course teaches humanities majors how to market themselves for the new economic normal.