How a tiny protest at the University of Nebraska turned into a proxy war for the future of campus politics.

Georgia Lorenz will lead Seminole State College; Tracy K. Smith will become chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.

In a rare large gift to a community college, an elderly couple in Illinois left $18 million to Lincoln Land Community College to expand its agricultural program.

Students from rural areas have particular worries about going to college, says a new book: being unprepared, having their skills go unappreciated, and abandoning their communities.

Administrators who hold on to their faculty roots will benefit both themselves and their institutions.

Zeynep Tufekci describes how she tries to fit teaching, tweeting, op-eds, and TED Talks into a 24-hour day.

Among the latest topics are the broadened scope of the Title IX gender-equity law and how state universities teach writing.

An inward journey can help higher-education leaders withstand job pressures and support students, says a book that inspired a community-college dean.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

The former lieutenant governor of Colorado will be the next president of the Colorado Community College System; 115 of this year’s Guggenheim fellows hold academic posts.

They devote more of their payrolls to human resources, for example. But don’t take that as a recipe for success, says Paul Friga, the researcher behind a new data analysis.

The university’s associate vice president for alumni relations announced his resignation on Tuesday, adding his name to the growing ranks of officials who have departed in recent months.

Amid allegations of pervasive racism, the student official struck a defiant tone, urging a guilty verdict. Meantime, the university’s president announced steps to make the campus more inclusive.

A pop star’s performance has put historically black institutions in the national spotlight. Was the concert just good optics or a sign that the colleges will get in formation?

A plan to lay off tenured faculty members, brought on by enrollment declines and deficits, has provoked a broader debate about whether the institution’s religiosity undermines recruitment.

From Howard to NYU, students have been shutting down offices and sleeping in hallways, with few consequences from administrators.

The first professor whom students encounter in a discipline, evidence suggests, plays a big role in whether they continue in it.

Feeling a connection to their college has been linked to students’ persistence, and even their well-being.

New research finds that black students are more likely to graduate within six years at historically black colleges than at predominantly white ones.

The Edwardsville campus, which is growing, lost its shot for now at an additional $5.1 million in state funds. But Carbondale’s internal discord hasn’t inspired confidence.

Facing a budget squeeze, the University of Central Missouri fast-tracks a vote on folding several departments into existing colleges. Faculty members worry that the academic mission will suffer.

College degrees are losing value for the people who need them most.

When students arrive on campus unprepared for even the most minimal expectations of college work, they are set up to fail. Here’s how college leaders can change that.

Amid a pending vote on unionization, the university said that international students could be required to leave the country in the event of a union strike.

Protesters at Reed College objected to the limitations of “Introduction to Humanities: Greece and the Ancient Mediterranean,” a longtime requirement for freshmen. And so steps were taken.

The department wants to determine if the exchange of information violates antitrust laws.

Racism has suffused our teaching for generations.

They trained an army of bureaucrats who are pushing the academy toward ideological fundamentalism.

For almost three years, the Blush School of Makeup fought to gain access to federal student-aid funds. What’s the government’s responsibility to rein in colleges at the margins of the for-profit sector?

Academic careers are often determined by so-called evidence that is flimsy at best, with bias regarding race and gender. Alternative approaches are available.

The key to attracting students is challenging them.

The era of secret searches is about to end.