Feb. 19, 2016

A primer on tweeting for those who have never used Twitter or have underused it.

Vague criteria may signal to some faculty members, especially women and minorities, that a promotion to the top is out of their reach.

Remarkable opportunities exist at the intersection of the two fields. It is time to seize them.

The Mount St. Mary’s U. president who spoke of drowning bunnies fired faculty members last week — and drew searing criticism.

Aaron Devor, who founded the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria, was named to the trailblazing post there.

Scholarly writing’s an easy target, but its fairness and rigor are necessary and wondrous.

Young students gave him more hope than his honesty had given them.

Academe offers art shelter from the marketplace — but on strange, prickly terms.

The earliest known prison memoir by an African-American writer shouldn’t be overfreighted with historical implication.

The MLA set ponders Karl Ove Knausgaard.

In 1976, “two-way communication between student and machine” was a novelty worth noting.

Top Chief Executives Capital University, Elizabeth Paul Daymar College at Bowling Green, Bruce Wilkerson Geneva College, Calvin Troup John F. Kennedy University, Debra Bean Lewis University, David Livingston Marist College, David Yellen Ohio Technical College, Bill Hantl Stanford University, Marc…

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Awards and prizes February 25: Humanities. Applications are being accepted for the Leonard Boyle Dissertation Prize for Medieval Studies. This prize is awarded to a deserving doctoral dissertation in any field of medieval studies. The dissertation must be written by a Canadian or by someone who is…

The stir over a museum’s “Kimono Wednesdays” gave a lecturer a way to engage students in discussions about stereotyping.

An annual survey, now in its 50th year, found that first-year students of all races reported being more likely to take part in demonstrations than just a year before.

Disrespecting students and trampling the rights of faculty members at the Maryland university contradict the mission of Roman Catholic higher education.

The president’s final budget proposal includes a boost for community colleges and gives science researchers reason to worry. Here’s a look at the key items.

Facing stagnant enrollment, some foreign-language departments remake the curriculum to demonstrate their value to students and colleges. They may have lessons for other beleaguered programs as well.

The American Association of University Professors and free-speech groups are among those condemning the university’s abrupt dismissal of two faculty members this week.

One student’s perspective: “It’s Thursday night and you have two big homeworks due Friday. Your friends are going out. You’re just like, I just want to finish this, I don’t really care how this gets done.”

As Title IX complaints have multiplied, the government has issued more-expansive mandates for the colleges it has investigated.

Faculty leaders are criticizing proposed policies that were devised to replace job protections stripped out of state law. They say the proposals leave professors far too vulnerable to layoffs.

Gov. Matthew G. Bevin questioned whether such students should be “subsidized by the taxpayers like engineers.” But little of the state’s money supports students in any foreign-language study at all.

That’s a thorny question, as the resignation of a molecular biologist at the University of Chicago demonstrates. Without hard evidence or standard practices, professors struggle to balance the presumption of innocence with a desire to protect their own grad students.

Public universities should deepen their engagement with their communities and make those partnerships part of their core academic missions, says Robert J. Jones, president of the University at Albany.

A study finds the pervasive misuse of test scores and too much homophily.