Sept. 2, 2016

Business is booming right under colleges’ noses. It’s not just papers and assignments anymore. Now it’s the whole course.

If clients ask, the man from Nairobi, Kenya, is supposed to say he is American or British.

The value of college is increasingly found in the connections it creates. We should embrace that role, aiming for deeper and more lasting ties to graduates.

A change in federal labor law that takes effect in December has institutions scrambling to sort out which salaried employees will be due extra pay if they work more than 40 hours in a week.

A president gains new understanding from a book on the Arctic that he first read as a student at the college he leads.

Diploma mills had become a multimillion-dollar, worldwide industry, attracting some memorable characters.

No attempts at persuasion could keep him at the University of Cincinnati when he had a chance to lead a university in his Canadian birthplace.

The news has been good for graduate-student unions, bad for University of California chancellors, and absurd for anyone following the guns-on-campus debate in Texas.

Top Chief Executives Colorado Christian University, Donald Sweeting DeVry University at North Brunswick, Steven Nelson Laredo Community College, Ricardo Solis Ogeechee Technical College, Lori Durden Resurrection University, Therese Scanlan Tarrant County College District, Eugene Giovannini United…

Awards and prizes October 10: Humanities. The Austrian Cultural Forum New York is accepting submissions for the 2017 Translation Prize. A $5,000 award will be given for outstanding translations of contemporary Austrian literature (both poetry and prose). Selected texts from a living author have to…

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The NLRB’s ruling on Tuesday, that graduate students are employees, prompts a look back at the labor-union battle that started it all.

The National Labor Relations Board’s decision in a case involving Columbia University has made clear that graduate-employee unions are legal at private colleges. Experts predict a surge in organizing similar to what has taken place among adjuncts.

The recipient of a prestigious scholarship talks about how he will navigate his freshman year after the passage of the state’s controversial “bathroom bill.”

A state-budget stalemate means the colleges haven’t seen permanent funding in over a year. Administrators now wonder if the crisis will reverberate for years to come.

A discipline with little federal funding now has some momentum. But the researchers who study firearms violence and policy still face emotional and financial demands.

To outwit them, you’ve got to hypnotize yourself, shaking off the shackles of everyday routine.

What can fly-fishing teach us about theoretical physics? More than you might guess.

If a coherent antiviolence strategy exists, it’s built on two precepts: Think small, and start by creating jobs. Both of those guidelines present researchers with challenges.

The abrupt announcement on Tuesday that Nicholas B. Dirks will step down as chancellor leaves professors and others wondering how the campus will pick up the pieces.

The letters, which allude to a “tainted” admissions process and students being “set up for failure,” drew quick rebukes from students who said the language was racially insensitive.

Student activism and demands at Towson University, Oberlin College, and the University of Washington took different shapes. But the leaders of all three institutions are searching for common ground between protesters and administrators.

The controversial philosopher discusses ethics, challenging students, and the importance of surfing.

A lack of resources and an unwillingness to confront reality may hold institutions back, but like students, they may also benefit from studying postdoctoral career paths.

Colleges with large endowments have long faced criticism for not serving more of the neediest students. But there’s no clear standard on how many they should enroll.

Members of Prism, or People at Rockefeller Identifying as Sexual Minorities, say they founded the group to shed light on the particular challenges they face in the sciences.

It typically takes months to shepherd a piece through the peer-review process at top publications. What should scholars do when their work examines how an outbreak might spread within days?

Historians can serve a useful political role — but at what cost?

With help from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other groups, some colleges are experimenting with ideas for reorienting the humanities Ph.D. to today’s job market.

Three of the system’s chancellors discuss the potential benefits and consequences of a Republican-backed measure that, starting in 2018, will slash tuition at their universities.

Breadth requirements, often loathed as annoyances, get retooled to be more coherent, interconnected, and appealing.

Defending the humanities in a skills-obsessed university.

They don’t move mountains, they move minds. And the making of the arguments is its own reward.

Counseling and other support for troubled students have become easier to find in recent years. But many professors still deal with their problems in isolation.

A new book details how stories about sexual assaults by players extend far beyond each perpetrator. Coaches, administrators, and to some extent the news media all run the same plays when a new case breaks.

“Good prose requires dedication to the craft of writing, and our profession simply doesn’t reward it.”

In the Obama administration’s waning months, hundreds of colleges remain under investigation. Legal challenges may change the landscape, but the government’s action has already left its mark.

David Longanecker, set to retire as president of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, says colleges must become more “friendly” to low-income and first-generation students.