March 11, 2016

Student poverty, homelessness, and hunger didn’t used to be colleges’ problem. Now they are grappling with how much to help.

Saint Mary’s College of California has had a few smirches on its reputation for inclusiveness, but Tomas Gomez-Arias is leading it forward.

A former dean’s book describes how students at elite universities are overparented. Adult students elsewhere may not have that burden.

Recent studies, many of them by early-career scientists, are teasing out a more nuanced story than the one in the headlines.

Donald Trump speaks to college students, or at least those whom his campaign lets stay in the audience.

Books shelved at Winthrop College’s library were threatened by an effort to save energy.

A well-nourished mind prevails over a broken body.

It helps us grapple with the evolution of our consciousness.

It was an interracial movement from the outset, and slave resistance was crucial to it, a new book argues.

Timothy Snyder’s ambition outreaches his reasoning.

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A trove of nearly 2,000 pages of communication obtained under the Freedom of Information Act shows increasingly difficult negotiations, with UVa ratcheting up the pressure on the Education Department to soften its findings.

The now-defunct university, which promised to “turn anyone into a successful real-estate investor,” is the subject of lawsuits filed by the New York attorney general and former students in California.

The sudden announcement that nonstudents would not be permitted to sit for the test on Saturday has provoked a raft of speculation. FairTest’s Robert Schaeffer offers his views.

Simon Newman’s “drown the bunnies” comment triggered the crisis that led to his resignation as the college’s president. But it was his temperament as a hard-nosed private-equity executive that may well have doomed his tenure from the start.

The state’s fiscal problems are once again putting the squeeze on higher education, leaving colleges bracing for another round of sharp cuts.

The company says it is trying to thwart fraud, but test-prep tutors say it is blocking their access to the SAT because it wants to limit scrutiny of the test’s revamp.

The former education secretary has been the target of loud protests and questions about her background, but some faculty members are wary of alienating her.

As presidential turnover roils historically black colleges, a new executive-search firm hopes to help solve their leadership woes.

Pretty much everybody agrees that grades are not an effective measure of learning. So what are they good for, and what might be better?

His scholarship was as impressive as his fiction, and he pursued both with a good-natured humility.

A PowerPoint slide that circulated last week stirred fears that the presence of guns in Texas classrooms could cause professors to avoid sensitive subjects.

A recent study found that black students are underrepresented in majors that lead to high-paying jobs. But the progress being made is coming from historically black institutions.

A young sociologist lands a big book deal, wins a MacArthur Fellowship, and seeks to avoid the controversy that engulfed Alice Goffman.

To be called a “popularizer” is the kiss of death for an academic only if the actual writing is sloppy and sensationalized.

With the BDS movement, we have unwittingly embraced the same form of bullying of which Israel is often accused.