March 9, 2018

Why higher ed has become an easy target.

Faculty members will be on guard. To reassure them, leaders must share goals and visions, and frankly discuss how changes could affect careers and budgets.

The landscape of internships is ambiguous, unregulated, potentially exploitative, and — for many students — inaccessible. Here’s what colleges have to do before mandatory internships should be considered.

You will make better decisions about curriculum changes by taking strong steps to use data effectively.

Provocative political speakers have set their sights on colleges. Whether the firebrands get their stage or not, the cost to colleges can be high.

A project coordinated across 11 states will shed light on how policy variables affect the success of completion grants.

If higher education doesn’t become more interdisciplinary, graduates won’t succeed.

The problem facing universities in 2018 isn’t so much that peer review has inevitably evolved, but that scientists collectively have failed to respond with a better replacement.

A young university that serves low-income and Hispanic populations closely monitors students to ensure they graduate on time.

Lawsuits, for one thing.

The $20-billion controversy surrounding the influenza vaccine illustrates the problem of relying too heavily on published articles as a measure of scientific reliability.

Doctoral programs have an urgent directive from students, the public, and the professors who run them: It’s time to change.

A chronology of some of the Trump administration’s key deregulatory steps affecting higher education.

Fraternity deaths drew intense media coverage in 2017. But will that prompt real change?

Academic jobs may be drying up, but the need for scholarly thinkers is greater than ever. Here’s how graduate programs can ready Ph.D.s for alternative careers in the professional workplace.

Strategic recruitment plays a big role in the resurgence.

Andrew Coffey, 20, of Pompano Beach, Fla., was a civil-engineering student and Pi Kappa Phi pledge at Florida State University. He died in early November at an off-campus “big brother night” party that the fraternity’s executive committee had organized. According to court records, he consumed a…

Their enrollment in American colleges is leveling off – and not just because of Trump.

As prospective students become increasingly digital natives, so too should higher-education leaders. That’s one of the ways black college leaders are expanding their flocks.

Colleges must provide an intellectual infrastructure that supports data analysis in a broad range of fields.

New interdisciplinary programs spring up to meet job-market needs, but do they make sense?

Find out how innovative college leaders are responding to 10 key shifts in higher education.

Demographic, institutional, and political changes are putting more power in their hands.

Whether someone graduates or drops out can come down to as little as a thousand dollars.

Thirty-four states are expected to have more high-school graduates in 2025-26 than they did 13 years earlier.

How much growth is slowing, and which countries send the most.

The nine top producers of undergraduate-alumni Peace Corps volunteers in the 2017 fiscal year were all state flagship institutions.

David R. Harris will lead Union College, in New York; a University of California center names its inaugural class of free-speech fellows.

The China-sponsored institutes, on more than 100 campuses, are drawing increased scrutiny as America’s rivalry with China grows and as worries about Russian meddling expand.

The group, claiming to represent senior faculty members, vowed to take down the Confederate monument on its own. Then it eased off the threat.

In a narrow vote, professors condemned T. Florian Jaeger, who was largely cleared of misconduct by an independent investigation.

Emails show that administrators discussed whether they could eliminate more than two dozen programs without consulting professors.

For example, would weapons training count toward the service component of a person’s tenure file, or would it be lumped in with teaching evaluations?

Did the university’s handling of one professor’s sexual-harassment complaint keep other women from coming forward for decades?

Faculty members say Lou Anna K. Simon’s scholarly credentials don’t make the cut for the elite award.

Anxiety and frustration hang above undocumented students and the faculty and staff members who are trying to support them.

With emotions running high since shootings at a Florida high school, many colleges have assured gun-control advocates that punishments would not hurt their applications. But some colleges have feared to speak out on the matter.

The Title IX inquiry will look at systemic issues in the university’s response to incidents involving Larry Nassar, the secretary of education said.

Women in jobs like dean or assistant vice provost get paid 80 cents for every dollar that men in similar positions are paid, a disparity that has lingered for at least 15 years.

A report by Yahoo Sports suggests that a federal investigation of bribery in college basketball could involve at least 20 big-time programs.