The president resigned. A department is in shambles. And many women say the University of Rochester still has a lot of work to do.

Leaders of small institutions hope distinctive academic programs can stanch declines in enrollments and rates of retention and graduation. The results are promising but not certain.

In an era of “evolving realities of costs, demographics, and quality,” many are choosing to change in particular ways.

Christian Picciolini spent eight years as a skinhead, then he did an about-face. Now he has ideas for colleges confronting racist speakers and extremist recruiters on their campuses.

The institutions that raised the most in private donations in the 2017 fiscal year tended to have been founded before 1900.

Devinder Malhotra has been named permanent chancellor of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities; Sarah Willie-LeBreton will be provost of Swarthmore College.

Instructors in MOOCs are nearly twice as likely to respond to discussion posts from white male students.

Paul Quinn College’s president announced an ambitious plan for a network of urban work colleges across the country.

A prominent Harvard professor who has been accused by nearly 20 women of sexual harassment announced that he would retire on June 30, but the university’s investigation into his actions continues.

Career success for humanities majors doesn’t always depend on what those disciplines taught you. Sometimes, where you come from and what college you attended are what counts.

The program, which will provide $40,000 each to five professors, is unusual in both its generosity and its focus.

If a student were repeatedly to make racist, sexist, or offensive public statements, the student would be punished, say faculty members at Lehigh University.

A newly completed federal investigation of the University of California at Berkeley suggests that institutions should speed up the faculty disciplinary process — but that’s easier said than done.

The chairman of the Federal Reserve says America’s student-loan burden could affect economic growth. When it comes to homeownership or small-business creation, he might be right.

Daniel Handler, the author of the Series of Unfortunate Events books, stepped aside as graduation speaker at Wesleyan University, in Connecticut.

Americans doubt that a college education is worth the cost. It’s our job to let them know it’s the value of a lifetime.

Confucius Institutes, which have bought their way into colleges across the United States, are coming under serious scrutiny.