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After the president tried to bar travelers from six countries, the personal effects are still being felt.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

Zachary Wood wants to ensure that conservative voices are heard along with progressive ones at Williams College. His classmates don’t always agree.

Academics were among the winners of the PEN America Literary Awards and the Pulitzer Prizes. Fellowships were awarded to academics doing research on education and public engagement.

The risk of failure — that we might not “get it” — is the price we pay for the gift of new knowledge.

Stepping down from Princeton U. Press’s directorship, Peter Dougherty advises colleagues to find niches and think proactively.

Women in science and engineering may overcome some of the barriers they find in the United States by being more involved in international collaborations, a new book says.

Bills pending in Congress do not bode well for the rights and interests of the academic community.

Christopher J. Lebron, a Yale philosopher, says the movement should be set on firmer conceptual ground.

If minority professors are going to be effectively recruited, developed, and retained, white faculty members must become more deliberate and effective cross-race mentors.

Formal mentoring programs like those at two universities in Iowa aim to diversify the professoriate, especially in the sciences and mathematics.

In a republished essay from 1939, a president finds persuasive arguments in support of the liberal arts.

New education deans were appointed at Austin Peay State and Quinnipiac Universities.

What’s the difference between an adviser and a mentor? Iowa State University has stepped up its training for professors who give students more than just advice.

This upstart publisher wants to open Canadians’ eyes to their nation’s history.

Cass Sunstein exaggerates the web’s polarizing effects.

The problems result from issues that are structural, not stylistic.

As economists explain in a new collection of essays, there is nothing inexorable about Thomas Piketty’s conclusions.

Can Yascha Mounk save liberal democracy?

Among the new books is a collection of autobiographical essays by 13 Native American undergraduates and graduates of Dartmouth College.

Columbia University ranked second-highest among four-year nonprofit institutions in the average amount borrowed by each undergraduate who took out federal student loans in 2014-15.

In 2017 two universities got unwelcome visits from a prominent white supremacist as a result of policies that let outsiders stage events on campus.

As the campus leader’s job has become more dynamic, the traditional career trajectory toward it has become more varied. The provost’s office is no longer a mandatory steppingstone.

Richard Spencer brought his defense of the alt-right movement to the Alabama institution on Tuesday, against the wishes of university leaders.

When Washington State closed its theater and dance department, in 2011, the displaced professors were forced down circuitous career paths. But the closure presented opportunities for some.

Strained relationships among boards, presidents, and faculties have led to no-confidence votes at two institutions in recent weeks. But experts say it doesn’t have to be that way.