Franklin & Marshall College named Bucknell University’s provost as its new chief. Diana Natalicio will wind down her career after 30 years at the helm in El Paso.

Making them regurgitate facts and study subjects like calculus, which colleges want to see, doesn’t prepare them for the world, says the education reformer Ted Dintersmith.

A novel about the plight of slaves in the 1800s resonates on campuses dealing with civil-rights issues today.

The president and his policies are threatening international student numbers — and colleges’ bottom line. One admissions officer took to the road to try to stop the decline.

The taxonomy of academic majors that broadened significantly over the past hundred years can no longer keep pace with the churn of knowledge needed to compete in nearly every profession.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has combined liberal-arts majors with computer science, while Assumption College has cut shrinking majors as it gambles on new career-focused programs.

Departmental service sounded like a nightmare. But I could avoid it for only so long.

In a new book, an assistant professor imagines a higher-education world in which leaders are motivated by the desire to serve others.

The latest titles offer ways to rethink the survey course, welcome transgender students to campus, and empower men of color through student community groups.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

Amherst College received an anonymous $100-million gift, and several universities accepted gifts to advance health sciences.

Texas Christian University students were accused of academic misconduct. But the episode may say even more about professors’ teaching and assessment.

The university’s president says he’ll make transparency the norm when George Mason accepts money from private donors, including controversial ones like the Charles Koch Foundation.

Colleges are hiring police officers at a faster rate than nearly any other campus jobs — at a time of heightened concern about how they operate.

Pissing off progressives isn’t intellectual progress.

The black student said she had nodded off while writing a paper in the common area of their dorm. Videos of what happened went viral.

Vincent E. Price said the employees, who were dismissed after the vice president for student affairs complained about a rap song they were playing, had faced “unfair treatment.”

John Engler’s blundering three months in office have inexplicably positioned the former governor as an adversary of the women who survived Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse.

The Charles Koch Foundation’s influence at George Mason University is disturbing, but the future may be even more alarming as a continuing reduction in public funding leaves colleges vulnerable.

The university prospered under Lou Anna K. Simon’s leadership. But for many who witnessed that growth, the Larry Nassar sex-abuse scandal demands hard questions about the consequences of that ambition.

A panel of state judges ruled on Monday that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wasn’t liable for the suicide of a student, but that doesn’t mean universities are off the hook, law professors say.

At their commencement ceremony, several students were shoved and rushed off stage by a university employee.

Much of our work has no social value, and we hate doing it.

After The Chronicle discovered last week that the University of Texas at Tyler had revoked scholarships for 61 Nepali students, a remarkable thing happened. Strangers from all over the world stepped up to help.

Increasing the number of women and minority collegiate asset managers isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s the smart thing.

I’ve received hundreds of racist emails, phone messages, and letters. This is what it’s like to be hated.

And that’s a good thing.

When university presses close, so do our minds.

Dismayed about American politics? Look in the mirror.