Feb. 9, 2018

They are set up to help privileged students, and that’s not who comes, or needs them, argues Temple University’s Lori Salem, a maverick writing-center director.

You don’t have to look far to find them. Here’s what they want you to know.

Harlan M. Sands will become president of Cleveland State University, and Dorothy Browne was named provost and vice president for academic affairs and student affairs at Bennett College.

The feeling is endemic to academic life. How can we overcome it?

It was time to stop disguising my social-media surfing as productivity.

When I lost my son, my personal and scholarly worldview changed forever.

While stressing the merits of sobriety, consider the reasons so many students get high in the first place.

James J. Hudziak has created a tech-savvy living laboratory at the University of Vermont.

A holistic wellness program at the University of Vermont takes on an entrenched campus party culture, with some signs of success.

Jared Farmer wants to change the way we think about climate change.

These days the rhetoric of the meeting and of universities is aimed at getting Ph.D. students out of the professoriate.

Of the 18 colleges that have produced at least three first-time presidents for other institutions since July 2012, six had enrollments of fewer than 10,000 students.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

A new analysis by the Anti-Defamation League has found 346 incidents since September 2016 of fliers, stickers, banners, or posters from the racist groups.

I can’t be the only faculty member to notice that sweet, lovable Christine is an unrepentant academic cheater.

Stories from across the Lone Star State illuminate the difficulty of balancing First Amendment protections with student safety.

Federal and college sexual-assault programs and policies are not inclusive to students with disabilities, a study found.

John Engler, a former Michigan governor, was appointed to the temporary post in the wake of the Nassar scandal. Some faculty members are skeptical about his lack of academic-leadership experience.

Colleges and universities saw a 1-percent drop in fall enrollments and a 3-percent drop in applications.

Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation into the Larry Nassar case is seen as an effort to build a legal defense for Michigan State, not to shed light on sexual-assault accusations. One trustee says that Robert Noto, the university’s general counsel, must go.

An exercise based on a reality-TV show was meant to bring novelty to a program-prioritizing meeting at the University of Baltimore.

The university proposed using the quote “I’m OK, everything’s OK” instead of the victim’s suggestions for a plaque.

An institution in turmoil asks what comes next. People echo similar themes: openness, a president who will take ownership of what happened, and an effort to do right by the victims.

Colleges established training, policies, and procedures in the wake of the Penn State sex-abuse scandal. It wasn’t enough.

And the academy only hastens our forgetting.

A $75-million gift to the philosophy department at Johns Hopkins has spurred conversations about how best to use the money.

In a speech at Northwestern University, Jesse Panuccio said it’s likely that campus speakers would not be shouted down, and violence would “abate,” if offenders faced “serious consequences.”

The student said in a lawsuit that an assistant professor at Bellarmine University had begun an inappropriate relationship with him. But the Kentucky institution found that the relationship was consensual.

How can we, as educators, not discuss with students the real threats posed by climate change, immigration policies — and nuclear brinkmanship?

They made you an offer that you may want to refuse.

It is not just contributing to this country’s disastrous political condition; it is putting decent civilization at risk.