Nov. 10, 2017

The three baccalaureate colleges that scored highest in the 2017 Sustainable Campus Index were all in Vermont.

In an attempt to get more women into the technology industry, Duke University has launched a program that matches female undergraduates with internships.

Older generations aren’t trying to gripe about today’s college students, but to understand them, says the generational researcher Jean Twenge.

The wildly popular program lets high-school students earn college credits cheaply and easily. But it’s not available to all students equally.

Eleven scholars tell us about new and forthcoming books they’re looking forward to reading.

Students are leading the assault on free speech — and faculty members and administrators are enabling them.

The president of Harvey Mudd College shares the strategies it’s used to interest more female students in computer science.

Here’s a look at the different ways colleges are trying to increase the proportion of women and underrepresented minority groups working at technology companies.

Laura Monks is the new president of Tennessee College of Applied Technology at Shelbyville, and Harry Williams was named president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

Dartmouth’s Mark Bray has become the scholar who explains antifa to the world. What’s his place in academe?

Amid feverish speculation but little solid information, a lawyer for one of the faculty members says the inquiry has nothing to do with her client’s research.

The Roman Catholic university’s health-insurance plan covers 90 percent of its employees and more than 3,000 students.

“The transition group was very circumspect about how much information they gave me about then-current policy,” the education secretary said in a new profile published by Politico Magazine.

Remarks by the White House chief of staff, John Kelly, sparked a debate about slavery’s role in the conflict. Historians have long fielded such questions and say very little can change the minds of those convinced the war was about some other issue.

A higher-education summit brings together influential educators to plot strategies for lifting college-completion rates.

For community-college students, the answer might be three in-person courses and two online ones, according to new research.

Regional airlines are looking to hire students as quickly as possible. The only problem is that they’re hiring instructors too.

With a novel about a shady law school and the student-debt crisis, the best-selling fiction writer could shape popular views of higher-education policy.

Strayer Education Inc. and the Capella Education Company announced on Monday that they would combine.

The vote comes one month after the student-government vice president led a protest during the Pledge of Allegiance.

Topics in the class at the small Christian college in Missouri include map reading, the formation of American government, and rifle marksmanship.

Jerry Falwell Jr., leader of the evangelical online-learning behemoth, continues to be the U.S. president’s closest ally in higher education.

The acting assistant secretary for civil rights spoke to a congressional task force as the Education Department weighs changes in Title IX policy.

The university says the proposal is merely an effort to align with “current law and best practices.” Some professors say making collegiality a criterion in faculty evaluations is an attack on academic freedom.

With declines in applications at many American business schools, especially from abroad, students and alumni fear their programs will close.

For research universities, the machines confer big-league status. But in-house experts, who can guide researchers to the best computing options, are growing in esteem.

Kenneth L. Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and a professor at Baruch College of the City University of New York, has criticized the department for overreaching on sexual harassment.

With income inequality in the headlines, colleges are playing up their role as engines of opportunity. But a new report says some of those institutions now admit a smaller share of needy students than they did 20 years ago.

Bad news from his predecessor’s rocky term in office keeps on coming, and the demand for change on campus hasn’t receded, says Gary May.

Jamienne S. Studley, formerly deputy under secretary of education, will become president of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges’ commission on colleges in January.

Research universities, even major ones, take years to complete hiring sprees of this scale.

Nixon? Reagan? Jackson? Historical analogies are simplistic, misleading — and absolutely essential.

In granting football scholarships, colleges agree to cultivate student-athletes’ thinking on the condition that they risk serious cognitive harm.

The I-Corps model is winning admirers in a variety of scientific enterprises. The question is whether it can solve social problems too.

Inviting more voices into the academic conversation can be anti-academic.

Tiya Miles maps forgotten corners of slave history.

Frederick Crews’s capstone biography offers a most unflattering case history.