An expert on civil discourse suggests three ways to set aside grand political theory and focus on your institution’s needs.

Take control of the ways that you and your work are perceived.

Colleges need the good will of legislators and the public. To get it, they must explain what they do and why it’s important. Michigan State University is training faculty members to do that.

A growing number of institutions offer opportunities for faculty members to learn how to talk to the general public about their research in a way that is easy to understand.

For students, stepping out of comfort zones and interacting across racial and ethnic lines is key to their education, says Beverly Daniel Tatum.

Faculty members, not students, should decide who gets to speak on campus.

After a decade of investment and hype, what has the field accomplished? Not much.

The 1970 shootings were about racist police brutality, not the Vietnam War.

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How the wooing of students, and the cultivation of their desires, shifts the priorities and the role of the modern university.

City University of New York campuses made a strong showing on a measure of how far college students rise above their parents’ economic circumstances.

A General Electric executive will lead the University of Montana; 15 academics are among the winners of the MacArthur awards.

Plenty of states are facing similar challenges, but none have proposed a restructuring plan on the scale that Wisconsin is considering.

A heavy police presence? Check. Logistics for a Milo Yiannopoulos appearance? Definitely. A sense of security across campus? That’s much harder to come by.

Graham Spanier rolled out the red carpet for the intelligence services to conduct covert operations involving colleges.

The university’s 11 campuses were hard hit by Hurricane Maria. Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, a professor of the humanities at one of them, describes his experience of the storm.

As the latest scandal shows, the NCAA isn’t doing its job. Let’s tear it down and start over.

In the spotlight of a Supreme Court case over whether Wisconsin lawmakers drew the state’s districts unconstitutionally, the discipline sees both its power and its limits.

Obama-era guidance led to more lawyers representing accused rapists on campus. Now that the guidance has been rescinded, even more lawyers may get involved.

Student protesters stopped the head of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Virginia office from speaking. She called their actions a “classic example of a heckler’s veto.”

Students on the Ann Arbor campus want the perpetrators caught, and administrators more vehement in their condemnation.

A recent move by a school at George Washington University raises the question of how to best encourage gender diversity at the events, whether on campuses or at academic conferences.

The education secretary’s aversion to the national news media and her communication style have created a knowledge gap for college leaders seeking to understand her philosophy on higher ed.