May 27, 2016

The universities aren’t aggressively recruiting in faraway states, but they are reaching beyond traditional boundaries and trying other strategies to hit enrollment goals.

Reeling from financial crises, the workhorse of public education is being reshaped on the fly.

Long before the term “alt-ac” was known, some Ph.D.s found work outside academe after years of fruitless job-hunting at colleges.

Among the topics are working conditions for campus custodians, and the impact on college women of having “helicopter,” “bystander,” or “paramedic” parents.

Maricopa Community Colleges’ new chief says she plans to reach out to new populations and create stronger ties with businesses.

Bathroom Brawl Chances are pretty good that if you’re reading this, you may be a regular user of bathrooms on a college campus. Even so, they may not be a topic you’ve spent much time thinking about. You go in, do what you need to do, wash your hands, leave. Unless someone in another stall takes a…

A 12-volume novel on the social history of London reminds a university president of the value of the arts and humanities.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

Top Chief Executives Bethany College (Kan.), William Jones Central European University (Hungary), Michael Ignatieff Denver School of Nursing, Cathy Maxwell Finger Lakes Community College, Robert Nye Foothill College, Thuy Thi Nguyen Maricopa Community Colleges, Maria Harper-Marinick Milwaukee…

Awards and prizes June 1: Humanities. The Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council is accepting nominations for its Outstanding Archives Award, which recognizes the outstanding efforts in archives and records work in Georgia. The organization has twelve different award categories for individuals…

Philippe-Joseph Salazar spent a year and a half studying ISIS propaganda. His takeaway: Let’s cut our losses and negotiate.

Which is the menace? Perhaps both.

An unorthodox anthropologist goes face to face with the enemy.

An HBCU works with a top research university to help minority students transition from the master’s.

The standard of “affirmative consent” in sexual encounters has spread to many campuses, but students are still trying to figure out how to apply it.

Hundreds of colleges and a few states have adopted policies requiring affirmative consent. An unusual conference in Texas highlighted moral and philosophical objections to the new approach.

In a long-running lawsuit, three academic publishers have asked for an injunction that would require Georgia State University to closely regulate all faculty uploads to course websites.

Yves Bradley, chair of the college’s board, describes attempts to save the college — including a last-ditch proposal to merge with another institution — and what it was like to decide that time had finally run out.

Michigan State University has begun a series of mandatory workshops for police officers to confront issues of fairness.

Four political-science professors contemplate the improbable rise and fall of an obscure academic text in the time of Trump.

Through his foundation, the billionaire libertarian Charles G. Koch has given millions to the university. For some faculty members, that raises concerns about his influence.

New research finds that the government’s college-comparison tool had an impact, but that it was concentrated among advantaged students.

An online petition site is changing how some student activists operate by offering them free coaching, advice on how to “optimize” their demands, and even protest posters.

Carol Geary Schneider, who will retire in June from the presidency of the Association of American Colleges & Universities, describes what we know about a high-quality education and its greatest threats.

After protests rocked its flagship campus, the system is seeking an executive who possesses a broad range of qualifications. The question, one faculty leader asked, “is whether any human alive can meet all of them.”

“We handle it really well” is not the answer a mother and daughter were looking for.

Oregon State University is among colleges that are redesigning arena classrooms and bringing higher production values to how they use them, to help keep students engaged.

At Rutgers University and elsewhere, they are raising questions about how race factors into tenure and promotion — and, in some cases, advocating for scholars whose bids were denied.

Why graduate students should be allowed to see the letters we write on their behalf.

Jay A. Perman, president of the University of Maryland at Baltimore, talks about how his institution worked to help the city before the recent unrest there, and how it has intervened to help at-risk youth before they reach college age.