They are propelling a reckoning with slavery’s legacy on campuses, in cities, at companies. What Hilary Beckles is doing represents the next step. It’s the marshaling of scholarship for a political aim: payback.

A new report shows a drop in new enrollments from abroad, ending an era of unprecedented growth.

Pitzer built a fossil-fuels-free index fund and “analyzed it seven ways till Sunday,” says the chair of the investment committee. He thinks it may interest other colleges.

It’s a dreaded but familiar exercise at colleges when budgets are tight and enrollment pools shrinking. There are ways, though, to minimize the distress for both faculty members and students.

Position your institution for the future, then proceed with caution.

Morningside College eased the pain by bringing faculty members aboard to evaluate and rank programs ahead of $2.7 million in spending reductions.

Tisa Mason will become president of Fort Hays State University, and Brown Bannister was named interim director of the School of Music at Lipscomb University.

To begin with, involve faculty members in the decisions from the start. Top-down mandates are likely to be met with suspicion.

Through technology, multiple institutions can link together to deliver essential services at a discount.

The plan would count tuition waivers as taxable income. That could push some students past their financial breaking points.

Top academic and student-affairs officials who have handled appearances by Milo Yiannopoulos and others shared lessons at a meeting held by the Council of Independent Colleges.

How an effort to improve a classroom control panel helped one university’s professors, administrators, and tech staff find common ground.

The company’s proposed $5-billion project stands to have a transformative effect on one region and its higher-ed sector. But it’s unclear how much of a selling point that sector will be.

Members of minority groups at Michigan and Wisconsin reported feeling discriminated against more often than white students did.

The planned overhaul would place new tax burdens on colleges and students, and some critics argue that it could undermine charitable giving to the institutions.

Women aren’t aggressive enough in negotiating incoming salaries, and they are less likely to ask for raises later.

Roughly 140 private colleges and universities would pay 1.4 percent of their net investment income under the House’s bill. Under the Senate’s bill, that number would shrink to about 27.

Administrators say the goal is to help overwhelmed students graduate on time by streamlining course offerings, not to cut costs.

The tenuousness of their job security does no good for either teaching or learning. That’s bad for every American.

Search committees often consider a woman’s relationship status, but not a man’s, a study has found.