Feb. 16, 2018

Not all students are privileged enough to be cavalier about their academic performance.

“There is an abundance of talent in every community in every ZIP code in this country,” says Daniel Porterfield, president of Franklin & Marshall College. If you can’t find it, try harder.

Skill development and guidance from colleagues take precedence at the University of Denver.

At key junctions in their careers, professors at the University of Denver are urged to seek advice from more-experienced colleagues.

At the University of Denver, faculty members overcame anger and distrust to hammer out a novel set of post-tenure policies.

The lack of pedagogical training for graduate students persists even though, in many fields, the jobs they compete for increasingly emphasize teaching.

Miles K. Davis, Shenandoah University’s business dean, will lead Linfield College, and Karen L. Abrams will be dean of Duke Law School.

The Johns Hopkins University announced a gift of $75 million that will allow it to greatly expand its philosophy department.

Can the college experience be re-engineered to reduce sexual violence? Researchers at Columbia University are observing undergraduates’ social lives to find out.

The professor who invited the former White House strategist and Breitbart News executive says he disagrees with Bannon’s politics. But disinviting the speaker, he said, would send the message that “there is no space for other ideas on campus.”

In a simulation described in a new journal article, candidates for the posts at Penn State’s medical school were asked to respond to a faculty member who was upset about not having enough time for research.

John Ziker describes developing an app that helps faculty members record how many hours each week they spend doing their jobs and why it’s beneficial for the public to know.

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the university called the law firm’s report “a work of advocacy dressed in the garb of impartiality and independence.”

Many have blamed the student exodus on a bruising, two-year budget stalemate. But the real story of Illinois’s enrollment struggle goes back decades.

Jonathan Burdick of the University of Rochester explains his team’s approach, which he says avoids superficial reviews and “vanilla” freshman classes.

But holding the university or its employees accountable for wrongdoing in any of the several investigations that are underway may prove difficult.

A faculty career can last 30 or 40 years. That’s a long time to be plagued with self-doubts.