July 20, 2018

Kristin Williams will become chancellor of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. Eric Kaler will step down after eight years of leading University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Faculty members at tiny institutions might appear to be lonely, but they collaborate across disciplines and geographic expanses to avoid being isolated.

Colleges across the country are increasingly trying to help faculty and staff members understand their institution’s business operations.

This year, The Chronicle’s Great Colleges to Work For survey is based on responses from more than 53,000 people at 253 institutions: 165 four-year colleges (95 private and 70 public) and 88 two-year colleges. All accredited institutions in the United States with an enrollment of at least 500 were…

One obvious solution is to increase the number of women who lead projects.

A research field station in remote northern Alaska codifies and enforces acceptable behavior.

Over three decades, John Hitt spurred enormous growth at the University of Central Florida. Was he a visionary or lucky?

A couple donated an ornate 8,000-square-foot house to Westminster College, in Salt Lake City, for use as a presidential home and gathering place.

An assistant professor who wrote his dissertation in geography in less than two years shares the secrets of producing a “minimum viable dissertation.”

New titles look at factors that are changing higher education, including the unionization of adjuncts, the use of analytics to guide campus decisions, and the rise of artificial intelligence as a method of instruction.

Wisconsin’s latest attempt to quantify faculty productivity leaves academics feeling more misunderstood than ever.

Faced with a tight job market and growing demands on their time, more academics are turning to outsiders for career advice and support.

As robots take over so many jobs, a business dean says, colleges should make sure they are teaching students the creative skills that are best practiced by humans,

Underserved students have stories to tell, Tim Whitaker knows. His nonprofit group helps them get the words right.

James R. Ramsey, the former president of the University of Louisville, tops The Chronicle’s latest executive-compensation leaderboard. But the university and its foundation are fighting to reclaim a payout they call “excessive.”

Tania Tetlow will become president of Loyola University New Orleans. Roger Williams University’s leader dies one year before planned retirement.

For 40 years, the Supreme Court has recognized diversity as a viable factor in college admissions. Trump is moving to undermine that consensus.

At a small West Virginia college, confusion surrounds a tenured professor’s strange dismissal. And faculty members are worried that new policies effectively gut tenure.

What Drew Faust’s new gig at Goldman Sachs says about the priorities of students on America’s elite campuses.

Activists, buoyed by the university president’s recent admission that some old agreements had not met academic standards, sought access to a wider swath of unreleased documents.

The case was watched as a national marker of the limits of academic freedom.

The University of Maryland found no wrongdoing, but documents and interviews suggest that concerns about Damon Evans and a female coworker were widely held and upset the culture of the athletics department.