Nov. 4, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s plan would require the federal government and the states to find a new way to work together. How would that play out? The federal highway system might hold some answers.

In his book Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance demonstrates how relatively tiny differences in culture can make an enormous difference in access.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

The high cost of college sent some students into the “body commodification” market, where they exploited the value of their own skin and what’s underneath it.

To help relieve the state’s doctor shortage, Barbara Ross-Lee is leading a site of NYIT’s College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State.

A law dean considers what law schools should teach, now that more legal work is handled by artificial intelligence.

Administrators at the university oppose a move to organize unions at the department level, and a regional labor-board director will decide whether the effort can proceed.

Sinister forces have shaped the lies and memes of the alt-right.

The field failed to foresee 2016’s electoral chaos.

Studies by WWII-era social scientists provide a starting point for explaining Trump’s appeal.

How an absurdist ’60s fable augured our made-for-TV electoral dystopia.

Navigating class discussions during a chaotic election season.

Strikes are settled at Harvard and 14 state colleges in Pennsylvania, while jurors in the “Rolling Stone” defamation trial hear testimony. And Shakespeare will share the credit for some plays.

Top Chief Executives Central Connecticut State University, Zulma Toro-Ramos Lenoir-Rhyne University, Frederick Whitt Manhattanville College, Michael Geisler Robeson Community College, Kimberly Gold University of Akron, Matthew Wilson University of Tennessee at Martin, Keith Carver Appointments…

Awards and prizes November 1: Humanities. Gettysburg College offers the $50,000 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, which is awarded annually. The prize is given for the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or a subject relating to their era. Publishers,…

Psychiatrists have long abided by the “Goldwater rule,” which bars them from offering professional opinions on public figures they have not examined in person. This year’s Republican nominee has some specialists wavering.

Limited funding and a narrowing pool of prospective students leave the state’s regional public institutions facing a difficult future.

The GOP presidential nominee floated a plan that surprised policy experts. Some of them lamented the lateness and the lack of substance of his ideas.

College housing’s student workers have long been relied on to resolve roommate disputes, but the heightened enforcement of the federal gender-equity law has made them key reporters of sexual violence.

Georgia’s university system skipped a formal search in selecting a controversial state politician to run Kennesaw State University. Professors are fighting the move to keep it from happening again.

He had enormous impact on higher education. But in his later years, his work on two of his great interests were especially influential.

Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern University, discusses how his institution has used a combination of global focus and experiential learning to raise its profile, and how colleges should be preparing students for the job market of tomorrow.

The hiring department is looking for a person, not just a CV.