April 6, 2018

Median research-and-development spending on the humanities among 388 academic research institutions was $224,000.

Annesa Cheek will lead Saint Cloud Technical and Community College; two universities in Oklahoma named business executives as their next presidents.

Some work with specialized partners. Others feel confident relying on their own faculty members and resources.

Here are some resources to help differentiate intelligently focused programs from those that cut corners.

Accelerated programs appeal to frugal families, to adults making a career change, and to students focused on specialized training. But for these programs to succeed, colleges have to market them.

In less than a decade, enrollment in Lynn University’s accelerated programs has soared from 27 to about 460 students.

We asked dozens of women about gender and power on campus. Here’s what they told us.

As racial tensions roil campuses half a century after the assassination of the civil-rights icon, the need for strong, engaged, and inclusive academic leadership is greater than ever.

Two scholars accuse the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor of punishing them for criticizing the administration. The case highlights tensions that can arise when professors butt heads with their bosses.

Edinboro University’s leader resigned on Tuesday after his remarks published in an interview last week inflamed the campus.

The arrest of Larry Nassar’s supervisor suggests a culture of misconduct may run deeper at the university and more officials may face charges.

University of Texas officials created a database to give students more information about what they might earn, and owe, years after graduation.

H. Fred Walker, who recently told The Chronicle of his strategy to compel professors to accept his plans to cut programs, will resign on Friday.

The California Supreme Court ruled last week that a woman who had been stabbed by a classmate at UCLA could sue the university for negligence. Benjamin Zipursky, a law professor who has followed the case, says the decision could be a “landmark.”

After a decades-long court battle, Mississippi’s black universities won a $500-million settlement. But it takes more than money to reckon with the history of segregation in higher education.

James L. Gallogly will succeed David L. Boren, who has been the university’s president since 1994.

Foreign-policy experts suggest a computer-hacking indictment has more to do with international politics than a dire threat to American research institutions.

Diverging from a conservative talking point, the president said the “vast majority” of people on campuses “want free speech.”

Over its history, the NCAA has confused and obfuscated the meaning of amateurism more than any other organization.

The omnibus bill would raise the Education Department’s budget by $3.9 billion, but would also stymie some of Secretary Betsy DeVos’s plans.

Andrew Delbanco, an American-studies professor at Columbia University, says wealthy institutions should be serving the larger community, not just their own students.

So far, more than a dozen have published admissions policies for transgender students. Many will now consider applicants if they self-identify as women.

An assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute hopes to infuse ethics lessons into core computer-science courses.

Several states are considering — or have passed — bills to tighten the rules governing companies that service student loans, and the department’s new guidance would pre-empt that legislation.

Faculty members like where they work, especially those at baccalaureate institutions.