In a snowy corner of Pennsylvania, Edinboro University’s Fred Walker is brazenly shaping the public narrative to support his agenda.

Bill Miller explains why he gave $75 million to the philosophy department at the Johns Hopkins University.

The technology entrepreneurs Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg were among the top donors in early 2018.

To get students to choose schoolwork over immediate pleasures, stop focusing on willpower.

We need to find our academic center of gravity without losing the administrative capacities so crucial to the financial health of our institutions.

Clearly written expectations, mentorships, and get-togethers with faculty and students are among tools to help board members get settled.

If you want to avoid governance disasters, you need to be systematic about orienting trustees.

A seasoned board member considers the ways his own orientation fell short.

Maud S. Mandel will leave Brown University to lead Williams College; the University of Maryland at College Park appointed its first female director of athletics bands.

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Professors used to be funny. Now it’s too risky.

Over the last two years, many of the industry’s biggest players have merged with onetime competitors, moved from for-profit to nonprofit status, or left the business altogether. Here’s a summary.

The parent company said on Tuesday it would seek to have the conversion approved by year’s end. The move would carry many advantages for the company, but it’s unclear if students would be any better off.

The leaderless office is the main coordinating body for officials throughout the government to confer on a range of scientific matters affecting their agencies.

The tournament is as lucrative as ever for the association and its member institutions. The formulas for revenue distribution make sure that the power conferences get the most.

A new Gallup survey of college students shows overwhelming support for open learning environments on campus, but also for hate-speech restrictions and campus speech codes.

A professor of English at the Minneapolis institution said immigration authorities had told him he needs to make “plans” to return to Kenya after 26 years in the United States.

That’s the counterintuitive conclusion of a study by scientists at Harvard. The report’s lead author admits that it’s hard to know what to make of the findings.

Graduate students penned an open letter to the university’s president asking administrators for a commitment to combating gender inequality on campus.

The university hopes to eliminate depression by the end of the century. The effort begins on its own campus, where online screenings and downloadable apps supplement in-person counseling.

Students and former students say the male-dominated field, with its intimate workshops and reverence for stars, is particularly conducive to sexual misconduct and predatory behavior.

Suiting up as Mr. Darcy at an Austen gathering means abandoning self-seriousness.

We talk about “skills,” “relevance,” “engagement,” and “values,” but deep down we know the ideas behind the words are hollow.

The field can bend only so far before it breaks.

Even measured by their own standards, these finishing schools for junior executives are academic failures.

We cope with it in ways that largely erase the people we lose, ignore their pain and grief, and suppress our own.