Whether it’s by volunteering, doing research, or getting ready for the job market, many college students around the country try to make the most of their time off.

These experiences are short. Making the most of them requires careful planning.

A new approach to managing students’ behavior focuses on working with them to head off problems, not doling out punishment later.

What winter break? For players, it’s often taken up by training. So at Davidson College, career advisers plan accordingly.

Valerie Ashby suffered from impostor syndrome until she identified the phenomenon and spent a year practicing 10 steps to overcome it.

About half of historically black colleges and universities reported increases in the number of applicants from 2014 to 2015.

Roger A. Ramsammy will become president of Hudson Valley Community College, and Remylin Bruder was named provost at Rochester College.

A Harvard alum’s privacy-breaching email to applicants underscores the potential hazards of bringing outsiders into the process.

After white nationalists’ rally, emails show that administrators, donors, and parents saw Teresa Sullivan’s rhetoric as too equivocal.

More than 3,000 pages of documents show how administrators slowly came to grips with a menacing mob, which might not have turned violent if warnings had been heeded.

Students and colleges are beginning to tally the tax changes proposed in the House. For many graduate students, the increase would be big.

In a polarized America, talking about political issues is challenging. Faculty members from some Pennsylvania universities have organized events to make those tough discussions easier.

The department did so after a Democratic senator asked for such a step from the Obama administration last fall.

A mix of risk factors has made the problem particularly pervasive in the college workplace.

Students are asking the university to re-examine its policies, saying the sanctions imposed on a professor who violated those polices were weak.

Enrollment marketers eye another hot new way to reach prospective students, despite some nervousness.

When right-wing fire-starters descend, campus officials face a conundrum: how to get students, and everyone else, not to feed the trolls.