Oct. 28, 2016

Artificial intelligence has become more widespread in higher education.

The group Excelencia in Education recognizes programs that benefit Latino students. Those practices could help others, too.

Higher education must show students how to adapt to the fast-evolving 21st-century economy before outside ventures step in and do it for them. Here’s where to start.

Colleges too often plunge into innovative strategies without thinking about how much they will cost.

An experiment at Carnegie Mellon University hints at a new world of networked devices. But we’re not there yet.

Research shows that powerful emotions like awe contribute to lasting knowledge. Two psychologists ask: Can those feelings be evoked from a distance?

It’s time to look at diversity within subfields. If all of a department’s minority faculty members share the same specialty, is the department truly diverse?

Rousseau and Thucydides can shed light on our era, a historian argues.

Why colleges might look to the armed forces for guidance on serving low-income students.

Today’s students expect more help finding a job than ever before. Colleges — and companies — are trying to help them design their futures.

This is how colleges — and their students — can benefit from the findings of user-experience teams.

The way companies evaluate job candidates is evolving, and the certifications that liberal-arts colleges offer must evolve as well.

What if, in the next wave of innovation in online learning, colleges tried to provide what students really needed?

Practices from the software-development world can be adapted to disrupt undergraduate education’s “seat time equals learning” model.

Visualizations of survey responses show the university where its students feel they belong and where they don’t.

What worked 20 years ago might not work now, and those methods will only become more precarious as our technologically infused future gradually arrives.

Examples from innovative colleges suggest that one key step in improving career prospects is for colleges and employers to collaborate in deeper ways.

The U. of Iowa’s electronic futures market doesn’t see much future for Donald Trump’s candidacy. Pennsylvania’s 14 state colleges see a strike by faculty members. And the College of New Rochelle’s president is shown the door.

After a conservative speaker faced off with protesters at DePaul University last year, the campus’s leaders have struggled to find the right response.

The tension between Teresa Sullivan and the governing board, which ousted and then reinstated her, went deeper than a clash of strong-willed figures.

Robin Forman, Tulane University’s new provost, says math helped prepare him for the enormous intricacies at universities.

With the golden age of higher education over, a book argues, it’s important for each institution to differentiate itself.

The new titles cover such topics as the transformation of the faculty and student-affairs leadership.

Appointments Carolyn Hess Abraham, executive director of corporate and foundation relations in the Tepper School of Business, to associate dean of advancement for the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. Eliezer Berm√∫dez, chair of applied health sciences, to interim dean of the…

Awards and prizes October 31: Education. Nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education, which honors innovation in education. The prize recognizes outstanding individuals who have dedicated themselves to improving education through new approaches and whose…

An update to labor law requires colleges to give raises to some employees in the time-intensive field, pay them overtime, or scale back their hours.

Years of close calls during collective bargaining led the 14-campus system to develop contingency plans in the event of a work stoppage. The test now is how well those plans will work.

Michigan State University is rethinking how it communicates with students, especially those who are freshmen or the first in their families to go to college. Sending hundreds of emails isn’t the best way — but what is?

After learning about four such cases at one institution, Patricia A. Matthew couldn’t believe that leaders there had failed to see they had a problem. So she gathered essays about the experiences of minority scholars on the tenure track.

Dining-hall workers have been walking the picket line for two weeks. The university, with a $35-billion endowment, has been walking a line of its own as concern grows over economic disparity.

The presidential candidate caught many observers off guard by talking about a substantive higher-ed policy idea. Here’s some context to help make sense of his proposal.

Through a grant program, 22 institutions got a chance to move beyond “tried and true” programs and experiment with new approaches to training faculty and students and changing campus culture.

Why I gave up tenure for a yet-to-be-determined career.

In a Chronicle video, Nariman Farvardin, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, describes balancing its hands-on majors with the liberal arts.