July 8, 2016

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

For one thing, they are more likely to want careers that serve their communities.

After sex-harassment scandals, increased vigilance has prompted new rules for interactions between professors and graduate students.

The U.S. Supreme Court called race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin “reasoned” and “principled.” The governor of Kentucky called the University of Louisville Board of Trustees “dysfunctional.” And many people called Pat Summitt the greatest coach ever.

How one university is changing a sink-or-swim culture to broaden the appeal of a Ph.D.

They know a lot about creating a sense of belonging for people from underrepresented groups, says Marybeth Gasman.

At Fordham and Penn, the presidential candidate would have studied Islam, seen the first coeds on campus, and skimmed the dull parts.

Martha Tedeschi will direct the museums, which recently went through an architectural transformation.

A writing professor is captivated by a book that tells students their dreams of a creative life need not be derailed.

Top Chief Executives Briar Cliff University, Hamid Shirvani Franklin Pierce University, Kim Mooney Lamar Institute of Technology, Lonnie Howard Marywood University, Sister Mary Persico Pamlico Community College, Jim Ross Richland Community College, Cristobal Valdez Schreiner University, Charlie…

Topics include college for people with autism and the reimagination of academic libraries.

Awards and prizes July 31: Business/management (Faculty/Research). The Journal of Investment Consulting is accepting submissions for its 2016 Academic Paper Competition on topics that examine research relevant to investment consulting and private-wealth management. The competition is open to…

As back-to-back campaigns grew more common, so did criticism — and defense — of their wisdom.

The corporate university steals it — let’s grab it back.

Why another academic witch hunt could take off.

The one broadly marketable skill a humanist might acquire in graduate school is the ability to teach.

The university is making progress in enrolling more students eligible for Pell Grants. Now it is wrestling with how to better support low-income students once they enroll.

Research from Harvard suggests that measuring “reach” — how closely one journal author is connected to others — could be a key factor in career advancement.

A former mayor of Minneapolis says “different schools” will help close the achievement gap between white and minority students.

The nature of the discipline makes statistics create headaches.

Who wrote the first novel on a word processor, and what is the future of writing technology?

Historians of the right face a reckoning in the time of Trump.

The Fisher II decision signals, in a time of deep unrest, that race matters.

Shifts in economics and student demographics, along with resurgent activism, have altered the tenor of the discussion about affirmative action over the past eight years.

Some scholars argue that the reading list represents neither diversity nor a commitment to social justice.

To her colleagues and students at Trinity College, Marjorie Van Eenam Butcher mattered deeply. The feeling was mutual.

In a year when student activists pushed colleges to reconsider racially charged monuments and building names, researchers who investigate campus history have found new momentum.

As distance learning goes mainstream, colleges are rethinking how they train faculty members.

A search for a new provost proved that many applicants fail to keep their readers in mind.

Philip B. Stark found that student evaluations of teaching can be tainted by gender bias. He’s spearheading an effort among his peers to rely on those evaluations less, and to use other methods instead.

It is possible to create spaces of opportunity and rich intellectual inquiry, but we have failed to summon the necessary will.

Michael H. Schill, president of the University of Oregon, also talks about his plans to focus marketing efforts more on academics and less on athletics.