May 11, 2018

Lily D. McNair, provost at Wagner College, was chosen to lead Tuskegee University. The Aspen Institute named 40 fellows for its community-college leadership program.

More than 70 institutions now offer scholarships for eSports, and they’re developing new facilities for their competitors and fans.

Colleges build for the ages, usually with heavy stone structures that sit in place for decades. A different kind of construction can save time and money.

Administrators say it’s the “third rail” of facilities questions: With faculty members spending less of their time in their campus offices, can colleges afford to keep building them?

The traditional faculty office, tucked away in a different building, doesn’t lend itself to casual conversation after class. But there are spaces that do.

Public-private partnerships can help colleges remake their campuses in years, rather than decades. The bigger the deal, the more complexities it brings.

The Chronicle collected images from institutions across the country that use the landscape, loosely defined, to foster learning.

“One of the challenges at this university is that it’s so historic — the ADA wasn’t around in 1819,” says Cory Paradis, who uses a wheelchair and majors in urban planning at the University of Virginia.

For three months, Seattle Pacific University welcomed people who are homeless to the campus. Here’s what professors and students learned.

With proper evaluation and planning, new space doesn’t have to mean new square footage.

Spaces where people can connect with one another are especially valuable at community-focused HBCUs.

A professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill uses inclusive teaching, which seeks to equalize opportunity for students from all backgrounds to participate and succeed in class.

Not all of the public doctoral institutions that paid their full professors the most in 2016-17 were in cities known for their high costs of living.

Cory Paradis gave The Chronicle a campus tour to highlight changes that have helped him navigate the University of Virginia’s campus.

Nontraditional leaders from business, NGOs, or government face pitfalls and suspicions. But seasoned administrators can acclimatize them to the strange new world of shared governance.

New leaders must be open to learning the culture of higher education, and faculty members must give them time.

Find your unofficial “kitchen cabinet” of advisers, and other advice from a consultant who became a dean.

Jean G. Dahlgren will lead Delaware College of Art and Design; the Carnegie Corporation of New York named 31 Andrew Carnegie Fellows.

During her short tenure as the flagship’s chancellor, Beverly Davenport ran afoul of conservatives over “Sex Week,” outsourcing of campus labor, and gay rights. She also presided over a botched search for a football coach.

It may defy the examples brandished by right-wing pundits, but Jeffrey Adam Sachs says faculty members are dismissed more often for liberal comments than conservative ones.

A series of gifts the university accepted between 2003 and 2011, including some from the Charles Koch Foundation, included language granting donors room to influence the selection of professors. Now the university’s gift-acceptance policy is under review.

Good role models are needed at a time when a third of students transfer at least once, but 43 percent of the credits they earn get lost in the process.

The text of an agreement, obtained by a local newspaper, details what the university negotiated following harassment by a former athletic director, Norwood Teague.

It’s important to remember that Chinese people are not a monolithic force, moving in lockstep with their government.

When reformers focus on full-time students, too many minority students are left behind, a study finds.

Shocked and angry, the students are now scrambling to find affordable options with the help of admissions officials and college counselors all over the world.

Eight women told Science magazine that they were sexually harassed by Inder Verma, a molecular-biology professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Guns, social-media pressures, and economic uncertainty have created an epidemic of mental-health issues on college campuses.

How a star psychiatrist at the University of Illinois at Chicago violated protocols and put children at risk.

A commission led by Condoleezza Rice promised bold reforms to root out corruption in college basketball. Instead it sidestepped player-compensation issues that many see at the heart of the matter.

His website, the Student Loan Report, is widely cited by news media for its surveys on loan debt, and Cloud is quoted at length. But both he and his organization are facades.

Kerry Cronin offers Boston College freshmen extra credit for putting down their phones and planning a date. She’d like them to feel awkward and vulnerable, and maybe less lonely.

Some members of the Midwest Political Science Association say they are leaving the group over its handling of allegations against William G. Jacoby.