March 4, 2016

It’s more than just dining halls and parking lots.

A veteran president bases his predictions on recent events in North Carolina’s public higher-education system.

Five tips from leaders and lawyers about how to prepare for and what to do in times of crisis.

New pressures threaten the faculty’s role in leadership.

In the age of social media, college leaders must be accessible and honest — and fast.

What is the best way to assess faculty activity?

When measuring scholarly output, it helps to ask faculty to develop their own yardsticks.

“Bringing in the Bystander” and “Know Your Power” are two campaigns that aim to teach people how to prevent sexual violence.

The company’s work represents a danger to higher education everywhere, says a Rutgers professor.

While public scrutiny centers on how colleges handle sex-assault complaints, institutions are focusing more of their own efforts on preventing assaults before they happen.

The University of Central Missouri works to keep them from dropping out.

As college instructors hear calls to use “trigger warnings” and avoid “microaggressions” to avoid upsetting students, many suspect the real goal is limiting campus debate.

The University of Chicago inspires other institutions with a strong statement in favor of open debate.

The job is as multifaceted as it is hard to define. But some qualities are crucial: technical ability, design skills, pedagogical knowledge, and a deft interpersonal touch.

Should a college debater have to warn an opponent that the chosen subject is a sensitive one?

It’s a necessary partner to admissions, experts say, even if some colleges still don’t want to admit it.

Base your efforts on what students actually want.

Welcome to our second annual Trends Report. The past year has seen plenty of upheaval in higher education — student protests over racial inequality, controversies over free speech and so-called trigger warnings, rising complaints over the handling of campus sexual-assault cases, scandals involving…

More information and a digital format can empower the “quantified student.”

An emerging credential ecosystem offers new roles for colleges and employers.

NYU is using this ed-tech company to create a master’s-degree program for teachers.

Corporate influence and outright fraud undermine academic science.

Along with the Coca-Cola funding scandal, several other cases of alleged impropriety have put research credibility in the spotlight.

A year after an infamous video, a former student leader nurtures diversity at the University of Oklahoma.

Angela Evans, who leads the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, is working to strengthen its ties to Washington.

Fareed Zakaria’s book, a president says, has one shortcoming: It doesn’t say enough about less-selective nonprofit colleges.

More colleges are allowing dissertations to take digital or other nontraditional forms, but students need to prepare for the career consequences.

Lessons on Faculty Productivity and Metrics

Low-income students know that education is vital to improving their lives. Colleges must provide the support services they need.

In 1978, the Supreme Court’s “Bakke” decision limited the purposes to which colleges could put such policies.

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Algebra and other theoretical-math courses are barriers to college and prevent students from graduating while offering little tangible benefit, a political scientist argues in a new book.

The assistant professor of communication, who was caught on camera in November trying to prevent a student journalist from covering a protest, had been vilified by state lawmakers.

For cash-strapped institutions that want to increase enrollment, such deals can be a boon. But if done poorly they could leave colleges “stuck with an albatross.”

She leaves an organization that is in strong financial shape as a result of its digital publishing but continues to struggle to serve a changing academic work force.

The Faculty Senate president at the University of Houston suggests that his colleagues “drop certain topics” from their curricula after a campus-carry law takes effect in Texas.

Candace Thille says colleges shouldn’t let proprietary “black boxes” control the future of personalized learning.

Small grants, coupled with other strategies, can help keep low-income students on track to a degree. An official at Georgia State University describes how the approach is working on his campus.