Why wouldn’t a struggling English department jump at the chance to offer a class on the drama of the Hogwarts crew?

Ryerson and Clemson Universities are among those helping students develop career skills in their campus gigs.

No budget? No problem. A few tweaks, and no additional funds, can make students’ jobs more relevant to their career goals.

The connection between recreation and re-creation is a more effective, permanent way of learning new things, says Mitchel Resnick, of the MIT Media Lab.

Iowa State University has named its agriculture dean as the next president. The University of Arizona Honors College has chosen a new dean.

Among highly selective private nonprofit colleges, Harvard University was most successful in keeping federal student-loan debt low.

Faculty members and administrators recall lessons large and small.

How a season of racial protests turned Evergreen State College’s self-examination into a national spectacle.

Through her “Academic Freedom Syllabus,” Rebecca G. Martinez, an assistant professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia, hopes officials will be less likely to condemn instructors who are targets of digital anger.

The director of Bard’s Hannah Arendt Center responds to critics of his decision to invite a German far-right politician to give a talk.

The invitation to the German politician Marc Jongen “does not constitute either legitimation or endorsement.”

A hearing transcript sheds light on the case of a former medical-school professor at Wayne State University, who, according to administrators, was doing “nothing.”

Online programs are nothing new, but many traditional colleges are still struggling with how to develop and run them effectively.

It was a mistake to invite a racist, xenophobic German philosopher and politician to your conference.

As Richard Spencer’s white-supremacist event loomed, Kent Fuchs employed emotionally laden language seldom heard from a public-college president.

Ruth J. Simmons, a former president of Brown University and Smith College, will become the president of Prairie View A&M University.

Colleges aren’t solely to blame for students’ mental-health problems, but we’re not doing all we can to relieve some of the pressures.

Some institutions have changed their policies to mandate punishment for hecklers. In other cases, state legislatures have gotten involved.

A study of computer-science professors found that, in 80 percent of cases, their research-output patterns resisted the traditional perception of an early burst of publication followed by a gradual decline.

Three books offer different theories and solutions on what helps us get our work done.

All types of colleges are embracing research at the undergraduate level. Finding the best features and combinations of experiences, however, is very much a work in progress.