How systems thinking can prepare students for a complex world.

A selection from Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes From a Pre-American Life.

Improving how colleges find new presidents is a perennial concern. Here are the key points from some articles and reports on the topic.

Bethel College in Indiana prefers to rely on standard best practices and spiritual guidance in finding its leaders.

A project that brings together students from a military academy and a liberal-arts college is a step toward building a strong democracy.

Meaningful collaboration is hard to achieve, a dean observes, but it can be an effective route to change.

Why some colleges skip hiring consultants and a national search to focus on internal candidates.

In Silicon Valley, where cutting-edge skills may matter more than particular degrees, colleges are struggling to adapt.

Topics include affordable course materials and techniques for more dynamic lecturing.

Grounded in facts and reason, scientists could solve the nation’s policy problems, says Shaughnessy Naughton. Her advocacy group 314 Action is trying to get them in the game.

Peggy F. Bradford is the new president of Shawnee Community College, and Jamel Santa Cruze Wright, interim president of Eureka College, has been named permanently to the post.

An $8-million gift to a community college to help construct a new building is among the recent gifts.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

A new program at the City College of New York will teach activism with a nuanced approach to politics.

Medievalists have been wrestling with their field’s connection to white supremacists. Now, one of their own has sharply challenged their fears, revealing a struggle to define the discipline’s future.

Ryan Shapiro takes his crusade against government secrecy to the steps of the White House.

The field has not adequately rebuked the white supremacists appropriating its subject.

The shift at the huge public-university system casts new attention on questions about how colleges decide who’s ready for college-level work.

James Ryan, dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and a former law professor at UVa, will lead an institution that has gone from crisis to crisis.

Can universities preserve both free speech on campus and the safety of speakers, audiences, and protesters? The answer involves myriad practical decisions, which campus leaders are making now.

A Native American group argues that a plot of land owned by the university is theirs by ancestral right. Scholars of indigenous studies at Brown cast doubt on the claim.

If you are running a search without a consultant — and sometimes you should — do it under the right conditions.

In the 20th century, amid two world wars and a depression, poets found shelter in the university. But is that where they should stay?

They distract us from colleges’ systemic failures.