Feb. 26, 2016

Correction (2/22/2016, 11:30 a.m.): Because of an editing error, 19 colleges were left off the list of bachelor’s institutions producing the most Fulbright students in 2015-16. The list has been corrected.

State Department officials, study-abroad experts, and Fulbright alumni agree: The best way to diversify is through mentoring and word of mouth.

How the astronomer’s case signals a new era of activism against sexual harassment.

Academics see themselves as above the law, says Rep. Jackie Speier. Punishing offenders by cutting off their grant money might change that.

Those who enroll within a semester of earning a high-school diploma are far more likely to earn a college degree or certificate, a study finds.

A look back at an essay the author wrote 35 years ago shows that progress has been largely illusory.

In an age of trigger warnings, an associate professor wonders if he dares teach a sexually frank gay classic.

John Haldane, who has long taught in Scotland, says he likes the “wide-ranging intellectual conversation” in America.

America is squandering opportunity when it withholds aid from academically qualified students whose parents brought them into the country illegally.

Are federal student-aid programs hopeless? Is Missouri’s Melissa Click? How about Mount St. Mary’s Simon Newman?

Diploma Mills: How For-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream, by A.J. Angulo (Johns Hopkins University Press; 203 pages; $29.95). Traces the long history of American for-profit colleges and universities, their rapid expansion in recent years, and the abuses that have…

An emphasis on being “right” can drain meaning and vitality from self-reflection.

A lit scholar’s profound psychedelic experience propels him into the theater.

In orienting himself, Jonathan Ned Katz helped orient gay America.

Spinoza, Voltaire, Darwin, Marx, secretly inspired by Christianity? Not so fast.

The veneration of an individual figure is a profound distortion of the collective nature of research.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

Awards and prizes March 1: Health/medicine. Call for nominations for the 2016 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, which recognizes a physician, biomedical scientist, or group of physicians or scientists who have made extraordinary and sustained contributions to…

Top Chief Executives Alfred University, Mark Zupan Centenary College, David Haney Eastern Michigan University, James Michael Smith Frostburg State University, Ronald Nowaczyk Lake Erie College, Brian Posler North Orange County Community College District, Cheryl Marshall St. Vincent’s College,…

Federal legislation in 1977 would have let colleges send tenured faculty members on their way at age 65.

Academics are increasingly turning to renegade websites like Sci-Hub to view subscriber-only articles free. The trend is putting librarians in an awkward position.

A state legislative committee will soon investigate what the University of Tennessee at Knoxville does with money earmarked for diversity. How can campus officials persuade lawmakers who appear to be unpersuadable?

Jane Sanders, now an advocate for her husband’s presidential bid, took aggressive steps to expand Burlington College as its leader, but it has been on the brink ever since.

The passing of the sharp-tongued Supreme Court justice doesn’t alter the math of a ruling on the University of Texas at Austin’s policy. The long-term conversation about race-conscious admissions is another story.

The former private-equity chief executive threw his hat into the ring on the last day applications were accepted, promising to bring national exposure to the Maryland campus.

Many in academe have been quick to criticize Simon P. Newman’s response to the furor on the Maryland campus. Here’s how PR professionals would have done it differently.

The secret history of conservative foundations’ plans to co-opt scholars and scholarship.

The university must undertake a major effort to streamline its operations, its chancellor said, even as he acknowledged that some of the changes could be “painful.”

The job interview is not a spontaneous exchange, it’s a minefield.