Cathy Sandeen, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges and the University of Wisconsin-Extension, will lead the Anchorage campus.

CollegeNET, which is suing the sponsor of one admissions form, is powering a competing group’s admissions form. Oh, it’s awkward.

In more than 100 interviews with students, Nolan L. Cabrera has heard strong beliefs they don’t feel they can share publicly.

A purposeful year off before college is the best way to ensure that more students arrive on campus prepared to declare both a major and a mission.

“I know your doubts and fears, and I’ll have your back till the end of the semester.” That’s the message that Bryan Dewsbury, a biology professor at the University of Rhode Island, wants to get across to first-year students.

Only three private nonprofit institutions had four-year graduation rates exceeding 90 percent for students who began their studies in 2010.

Colleges redesign the first-year experience to improve retention, learning outcomes, and students’ sense of belonging.

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When Lake Ingle got in trouble with his professor, he waged a right-wing media campaign against her. She paid a fearful price as the target of the internet outrage machine.

Shirley Lawler, former provost at Ozarks Technical Community College, will lead Missouri State University at West Plains.

The Associated Press found that the conservative fund laid out 47 percent more in 2016.

Lehigh University’s Morgan Volkart focused on new countries in Latin America and Africa this year, and the resulting group of international freshmen will be more diverse than ever.

The Latin American Studies Association announced the creation of an anti-harassment task force at its annual meeting last week.

Despite fashionable opinion to the contrary, 21st-century administrators are crucial to the smooth running of a college.

After losing their full scholarships at the University of Texas at Tyler, dozens of students from Nepal have scrambled to find other colleges. Here’s how one young man has fared.

Why the struggle for academic freedom is the struggle for democracy.

C.L. Max Nikias, president of the University of Southern California, will step down, the institution announced on Friday.

A student-success expert shares seven principles that underlie the university’s high-tech, high-touch approach.

California and Massachusetts are working within the limits of existing law to expand students’ access to a key federal nutrition-assistance program.

In March, the Mormon university sponsored a panel on LGBT issues — something it had never done before. How it got there is a story of mixed motivations and incremental progress.

Its adherents think it will save higher ed. They’re delusional.

A Supreme Court decision will most likely lead to more fans, more viewers, and more money.

So why do we value selectivity over social mobility?

To salvage the university, explain why it’s worth saving.

Money and the murky boundary of teaching and sex.

The field used to be visionary. Now it’s just dull.