April 15, 2016

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, long dismissed in academe as a relic of the culture wars, has a resonant message for disruption-prone college boards. Not everyone is happy about that.

Michael A. Nutter says he was attracted to the university, in part, because his daughter studies there.

The way colleges teach math has long been criticized as outdated. Now a new player is fostering fresh approaches.

Students protest from Ole Miss to Princeton, the Antonin Scalia School of Law changes its name, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security creates a fake college.

In Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel, the suppression of speech begins on campuses. What’s the chance that could still happen here?

Making disadvantaged students subsidize the attendance of their more privileged peers is as regressive as it is indefensible.

The Black Liberation Collective uses online platforms the way the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee used the black press in the 1960s.

For MIT’s point person on digital learning, the best approach is to persuade colleagues through engagement and research.

The free online atlas, developed at the University of Richmond, presents social developments in a compellingly interactive way.

At the University of Pittsburgh, she brings the science of education to the field of rehabilitation technology.

As president of LaGuardia Community College, in New York, she has sought out unlikely partners to help students get jobs.

The rationale is simple: More anonymity means more scrutiny for published papers, and more scrutiny means more errors are caught.

As a co-founder of Civitas Learning, he provides a cloud-based platform that helps users avoid “analysis paralysis” and use data to help students succeed.

Digital tools like an open-source timeline builder allow the work of one group of students to enhance the learning of the next.

Technology, responsible for so much mental absentia among millennials, can actually deepen their presence in the classroom.

He says the prevailing mind-set behind digital companies is how to sell them for lots of money, not how to make them sustainable or benefit their workers.

A new network will allow college instructors to share and exchange digital tools and the lessons they create.

According to an online editing tool that advertises its ability to make Hemingways of us all, Papa’s prose wasn’t so hot.

A professor asks students to observe their use of tech and make healthy and effective changes based on those observations.

Today’s college classroom sits at a crossroads between the principally print past and a print-plus future.

Faculty members who resist moving their classrooms online may be expressing a fundamental concern about preserving their traditional roles.

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William J. Bennett, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, said colleges were failing at their “great task of transmitting a culture.”

Arizona State offers several small-campus environments in addition to the big one everyone knows about. But getting prospective students to understand that can be a challenge.

David Broockman and Joshua Kalla exposed major flaws in a celebrated piece of political-science research. Their new paper builds on that debunked project — but this time, they say, the data are real.

The new officials at Yale and Princeton hope to bring about structural changes on their campuses. But first they’ll do a lot of listening.

The controversy over sexual-harassment cases at Berkeley highlights the larger battle over faculty protections and the call for a swift conclusion of complaints.

The candidate’s name, scrawled on sidewalks, has left some students feeling threatened. Colleges are now grappling with how to respond to such concerns.

Paying lip service to complaints without acting on them risks arousing student anger.

Some observers have worried that states’ efforts to make colleges more efficient could box out less-advantaged students. New research suggests they may be right.

The university announced it would not remove the former president’s name from two prominent spots on its campus, and set forth a series of diversity initiatives.

Faculty members share their techniques for keeping pace with the changing demands of higher education.

An unusual study of faculty compensation finds gaps based on union status, proximity to cities, and institutional size.

Coaches and administrators should be challenging college athletics’ culture of misogyny, racism, and social injustice.

Instead of failing students for intellectual dishonesty, shouldn’t we try to help them not fail?

The best way to lend support to higher education is to “help colleges do what they need to do,” says Josh Wyner, executive director of the College Excellence Program at the Aspen Institute.