May 6, 2016

For poor kids, “college for all” isn’t the mantra it was meant to be. The national push may be doing more harm than good.

Hearing American officials say the United States should emulate a near-universal college-attendance rate, some higher-ed experts in the East Asian nation scratch their heads.

Does historical memory further peace or incite conflict?

In our Googled world, everything’s an entry and nothing’s a discovery.

Where a professor sees literary irreverence toward religion, his students see heresy.

Why is wellness such a dirty word in academe?

In a best-selling book, Allan Bloom argued that the liberal arts had given up on teaching universal truths.

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Buzz Aldrin, who is 86, advises a center run by his son that is bent on figuring out how to get people settled on a neighboring planet.

An adjunct professor of literature discovers a book that helps her foster her students’ intellectual independence.

The two disciplines seem so different that their students may be reluctant to learn from one another. But the future depends on their doing so.

Colleges are exploiting advances in analytical modeling to engage professors in discussions of teaching cost in relation to quality.

Awards and prizes May 15: Humanities. Call for nominations: The American Historical Association recognizes a wide variety of distinguished historical work, which can take the form of an exceptional book in the field, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, and even on film. The…

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“Serious and troubling questions” land the University of California at Davis chancellor on administrative leave; a third of financial aid at top public institutions goes to students who don’t need it; and more news from this week.

But the Boulder campus’s invitation of visiting professors of conservative thought may not work elsewhere.

From a more progressive band of conservatives to “Terps for Trump,” the University of Maryland at College Park’s Republican groups mirror the national divide.

Some good news: Last year saw the largest number of states to increase per-student spending in the past quarter century.

An American scholar. A Mexican village. The U.S. military. What could go wrong?

Two-year colleges have been steadily losing students, and that’s not just because of an improving economy. New research has found that four-year colleges are luring students away, too.

After grilling university officials over diversity offices, diversity spending, and diversity goals, Republican legislators in Tennessee have now sent a bill to the governor’s desk with sharp restrictions.

Faculty leaders at Hope College say President John C. Knapp’s decision to ask his provost to resign caused friction with the Board of Trustees. Such disputes over personnel decisions often signal broader tensions.

As protests over race grew at the University of Missouri in November, internal emails show a shaken administration trying to appease demonstrators, calm student fears, and assess a barrage of violent threats.

A male athlete who was found responsible for sexual misconduct asserts that his university mistreated him because of pressure from the government. Some experts doubt, however, that federal guidance is compelling colleges to side with accusers.

“I still have the standard anxiety of a struggling musician: Regardless of the gig, I want to be invited back.”