Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

First-generation faculty members at Old Dominion University connect with first-generation students to ease the isolation that many of them feel.

David Felsenthal says predictive analytics reveal where to spend time and money to graduate as many students as possible.

To find out, a program at Tufts monitors students’ voting rates.

Pitzer College aims to broaden the worldview of students from the Claremont Colleges consortium as well as their prisoner classmates.

A course on democracy changed his life. Now he wants to pay it forward.

Voter drives, community organizing, service learning, and new course offerings connect them with the world beyond the campus gates.

The ability to express one’s opinion, no matter how unfounded or false, has become the test of free speech. Knowledge is the casualty.

This is the campus free-speech problem nobody talks about.

The academy has always been a hothouse of invidious comparison. This website makes it worse.

College presidents must be collaborative, adaptable, and willing to share power to guide their institutions to success in the 21st century.

Merodie A. Hancock will become president of Thomas Edison State University, and Daniel Alfonso was named vice president for facilities management at Nova Southeastern University.

Many major gifts to colleges come from older alumni, but the Rochester Institute of Technology recently received a $50-million gift from a 2009 graduate.

When Hurricane Maria plunged the University of Puerto Rico into gloom, professors and students had no choice but to bring back the light.

Georgia’s Brewton-Parker College, Shorter University, and Truett McConnell University have doubled down on their religious identity. But two of them have seen sharp declines in enrollment.

Recent efforts by a right-wing activist to recruit conservative students to spy on their liberal professors are just the newest iteration of what has become a notorious campus pastime.

At some public regional universities, the foundation’s conservative politics have made it a tough sell. But a growing number of prestigious institutions now are among the top recipients of Koch funding.

When private companies hold data that scholars need, what becomes of academic research?

“You may be tempted to call me a coddled millennial,” said Mya Roberson in a message to the university’s trustees and chancellor. “But I am human. I am black. And I am fed up.”

For the City University of New York’s faculty union, the answer is $7,000 per course.

The case for free speech must be made with appropriate sensitivity to the perspective of its critics.

The Yale historian has become a prominent critic of liberalism. But what’s he for?