Reggies Wenyika, president of Southwestern Christian University, will lead Ottawa University, in Kansas.

Restive administrators and trustees may see tenure as a burden. But eliminating it could bring unanticipated costs.

A common-sense proposal.

Arguments that they’re useful are wrong, anti-humanistic, and sure to backfire.

In Tennessee and elsewhere, professors worry that their arguments to legislators and the public are falling on deaf ears.

Educators must be vocal and clear about how they turn taxpayer dollars into effective results, says F. Ann Millner, a Utah state senator and former college president.

Colleges received millions from the founder of Craigslist, the widow of the man who created the Weather Channel, and a retired high-school teacher in Kansas.

Putting principles into practice takes leadership, resources, and commitment. These colleges are using multistage anti-bias procedures to shake up the status quo.

A poem reminds a professor to encourage his students to keep sight of the community outside the classroom, where people struggle with the issues being studied in the classroom.

The author of a new book argues that international students are valued as cash cows while being excluded from the equitable treatment accorded to other groups on campuses.

Some of the latest titles look at research by indigenous scholars regarding postsecondary education for American Indians and delve into the ways students around the world acquire the books for their studies, not always legally.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

Nancy J. Cable, president of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, will become chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

In private, John Engler seethed with the thought that victims of sexual abuse were being manipulated by trial lawyers.

A new report from the National Academy of Sciences comes as the organization debates whether to expel members who commit sexual misconduct.

Scholars heard the NYU professor was under a Title IX investigation. They threw support behind her, but then their appeal was made public.

A recent research brief repeats long-known findings. Systemic change, scholars say, is the only way to make progress.

The department on Monday issued a “statement of interest” in a free-speech lawsuit filed against the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor by a group called Speech First.

For many contingent faculty members, retirement is not an option.

A draft document found that the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools had failed to meet nearly 60 federal regulations. Agency officials, though, are playing down the significance of those findings.

A new database of female historians joins a growing group of lists that aim to promote a more diverse group of experts.

The California system has shared operation of the Los Alamos laboratory for decades, but the partnership with Texas A&M — the alma mater of U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry — marks a shift.

This most powerful of sports organizations must remake itself from a membership association into an independent leadership organization.

At a time of heightened awareness about sexual harassment, senior men are shying away from mentoring young women. That’s a step in the wrong direction.

What would Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra, a very friendly robot, plus a bevy of scientists, mystics, and wannabe scholars do at a fancy resort in Arizona? Perhaps real harm to the field of consciousness studies, for one thing.

Institutional support at all levels is key to transforming the climate of everyday campus life.

We looked at dozens of collective-bargaining agreements to find out.

Money from the Defense Department and cultural foundations has helped the University of North Georgia steadily build up its language programs.

Publicity about racial unrest on the campus in 2015 prompted a decline in enrollment. The university’s leaders had to act fast.

First, recognize that the problem affects you, too.

The stereotype of the Southerner — the rube, the redneck, the bigot — pervades elite colleges and hinders the important work of bridging a growing cultural divide.

The academic job market brings out the worst in us. It doesn’t have to be that way.