Mary Gallagher will lead Los Angeles City College. Western Kentucky University chose a liberal-arts dean as provost.

Stop pitting science and the humanities against each other.

The inside story of education on the inside.

More-detailed information about student backgrounds aids in revamping classes predictive of student success.

Faculty members at private nonprofit institutions were slightly more likely to have reached the rank of professor than were those at public institutions.

Gone are the days of simply helping students register for classes and pick a major. New strategies and technologies are aimed at improving retention and graduation rates.

Interventions are effective only if the data being used tell the whole story.

Lessons from Georgia State University, where an extensive intervention system has helped eliminate all achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity, and income level.

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David Roland Finley, from Lake Superior State University, will lead North Central Michigan College. The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience recognized six young scientists.

A Reagan appointee, Kennedy provided a moderate voice and sometimes sided with the court’s liberal arm, as in his surprising opinion in 2016 on the use of race in college admissions.

A former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board says the effect of the decision on higher education depends, in part, on the appetite for “internecine warfare” on public-college campuses.

A proposal to strike the word from the governing laws of the University of Colorado Board of Regents points to unease and confusion surrounding the term in higher education.

A merger with the Labor Department would only exacerbate the worst aspects of the deeply flawed agency under Betsy DeVos.

Can a liberal education create enemies of liberalism?

Through social media and other outlets, experts are marshaling research to engage with the public like seldom before.

After a disastrous 10 days in which calls mounted for John Engler to resign as interim president, the meeting turned into a spectacle of painful survivor testimony and the pleading of a board at wits’ end.

One year later, here are some lessons learned from the combining of two universities in Philadelphia.

Law professors and their students step up to defend the defenseless during America’s immigration crisis.

The strange case of Julia Kristeva.

Suzanna Danuta Walters says that while she does not “hate men in some generic way,” it makes sense for women to have “legitimate rage” against a group that has “systematically abused them.”

A shift from the ascetic to the aesthetic is underway. At its center: evolutionary biology.