More than half of the federal support for higher-education R&D spending came from the Department of Health and Human Services.

All nine of the University of California campuses open to undergraduates were among the most expensive in the country for in-state students.

Their leadership styles may differ from the status quo, and not just because they use Twitter.

My faculty colleagues are often condescending. Maybe it’s just because I look young — or maybe it’s because I’m a woman of color.

As academics turn to nontraditional measures of their scholarly work’s impact, the notion of “alternative” will fade, predicts a pioneer in the field.

It’s about using the right techniques to engage the right audience about a relevant topic at the optimal time.

Doctoral training doesn’t exactly prepare us to admit areas of ignorance or demur from participating in some conversations.

Faculty members in some states prepare for new laws that will allow concealed weapons in their classrooms.

This year The Chronicle’s Great Colleges to Work For survey is based on responses from more than 46,000 people at 281 institutions: 189 four-year colleges and universities (109 private and 80 public), and 92 two-year colleges. All accredited institutions in the United States with an enrollment of…

Frumpy or chic? Sometimes clothes make the professor.

Five presidents hit that mark in 2015, and three of them were in Texas, according to The Chronicle’s annual analysis of compensation at the top.

The Supreme Court’s decision leaves the courthouse door open for every program to be judged on its particular facts.

Gun Violence, Again The fatal shootings of five police officers and the killing of the sniper who gunned them down engulfed El Centro College, a community college in downtown Dallas. The urban campus, which serves some 10,000 students, had locked down before the shootings began, a precaution in…

Matthew A. Waller is one of the first business deans in the country to be drawn from the area of supply-chain management.

A newspaper article reminds an engineering professor of the importance of learning from failure.

Top Chief Executives American Public University system, Karan Powell Antioch University at Santa Barbara, William Flores Bemidji State University and Northwest Technical College, Faith Hensrud Canada College, Jamillah Moore Ferrum College, Joseph Carson Spooner Fresno City College, Carole Goldsmith…

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…

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

How much can a half-semester course shift a lifetime of experience?

New details reveal a clearer timeline of what happened after the man suspected of killing five police officers burst into a building at El Centro College.

Aided by a public outcry, the publisher thwarted a plan to shut it down. It’s now on firmer footing, but like other university presses, it is still weathering the challenges of a shifting market.

America built its economic strength and political vitality on the backs of its public universities. What will it take to sustain them?

With Sen. Bernie Sanders expected to bow out of the presidential race on Tuesday, campus activists who supported him are divided on Hillary Clinton and remain focused on broad political change.

Scholars have been studying the role of race in fatal police shootings for decades. Here’s a survey of what they’ve learned.

Two administrators are spearheading an effort to make the university more welcoming to students from diverse backgrounds. But, as one of the leaders puts it, they’re “up against a lot in terms of history.”

Three years after the university system’s Academic Senate approved a bold plan to make faculty research freely available, only 25 percent of professors are putting their papers in a state-created repository.

Emergency aid may make all the difference, but not if students don’t know it’s there, or regulations prevent colleges from distributing it.