March 17, 2017

Experiential-learning opportunities help students apply the classroom to the real world, but many of them don’t get the chance.

You might assume that your presidential-search firm is doing all the appropriate background checks. You might be wrong.

A higher-education researcher knows that determination is just one of the ingredients low-income students need to have a shot at succeeding in college.

Extremists want to co-opt her as a symbol of meek, old-fashioned white womanhood. They don’t have a clue.

A team-based approach to initial reviews of applications can often save time and may allow for better evaluations.

Governed by many rituals, admissions offices often resist change. When Rick Bischoff heard that other colleges were doing initial evaluations of applicants in two-person teams, he scoffed. “The stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of,” he recalls saying. But Mr. Bischoff, vice president for enrollment…

An admissions official at the University of Pennsylvania explains its new way to do holistic review and why other colleges are following suit.

Wright State University appointed its first female president, and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth named its first African-American leader.

A case in point: Elon Musk’s Hyperloop.

Professors should expect administrators to exempt low-risk human-subject research from the scrutiny of institutional review boards.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

Colleges are its most crucial defenders. They don’t have time to wallow in self-pity.

Kwabena Boahen’s work is playing a huge role in bringing neuromorphic computing toward reality. In doing so, colleagues say, he’s demonstrated the importance of welcoming researchers from abroad.

Despite careful preparations and lots of listening beforehand, the event with Charles A. Murray still ended in an ugly fashion.

Students and scholars affected by the president’s new executive order say they feel as if they already face heightened screening in order to come to the United States. Here’s why.

While the new executive order provides some reassurance to students and scholars already on campus that they can travel freely, it offers little guidance to those seeking to enroll this coming fall.

Intellectual intolerance poses an existential danger to the university.

Do you like electricity, computers, TV, radio, smartphones, and GPS? How about your health and your extraordinary life span? Thank basic research.

Young people who haven’t secured temporary protection from deportation are finding themselves in an especially precarious position.

No, this is not an argument for women to act more like men in the hiring process.