Seher Awan was a vice president at San Diego City College before taking over at Los Angeles Southwest College. Cornell’s next dean, J. Meejin Yoon, is head of architecture at MIT.

Jerry Brown thinks so. His dream project will give millions of the state’s working adults the opportunity to earn credentials and certificates. But is that what they want?

It’s time for higher education to do less.

Increasingly common strategies can increase income from federal grants, private contracts, and philanthropic donations.

So you want to join the elite ranks of Research 1 universities? Make sure that your aspirations match your institutional mission, and that you understand the long-term costs.

A major benefit is that it encourages them to reach levels of productivity and sophistication that they might not have attempted otherwise.

Nine of the 10 universities that granted the most doctoral degrees in 2016 were public institutions. Stanford University joined them in the Number 6 spot.

Heidi M. Anderson will become president of University of Maryland-Eastern Shore in the fall. Two university chief executives plan to retire next year, after more than a decade.

With the release on Tuesday of the House Democrats’ proposal to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, we can compare their priorities, head to head, with the Republicans’ competing legislation.

Lawyers representing the university in a lawsuit argued in January that such freedom, if it exists, belongs to the institution and not to individual professors. The president affirmed the principle, but the dispute continues.

Deva Woodly, an associate professor of politics at the New School, lobbied administrators to let her bring an activist, Shanelle Matthews, into her world. The two talk about the new position and how it benefits both groups.

Members and alumni of Delta Phi Epsilon, a national professional fraternity, are calling for the resignation of Terrence Boyle, who they say has expressed sexist and xenophobic beliefs.

After a college administrator said rap was not real music, scholars of the genre step up to defend their work.

How archives marginalize black scholars.

How to stop pseudo-historical grift from taking over the field.

In a lawsuit deposition, he names “bad actors,” some of them still at the university, in what he sees as a cover-up.

Investigators said on Friday that the allegations had emerged from interviews with more than 200 former students and staff members.

Critics of Marc Short’s hiring cited his defense of the president’s comments about the “very fine people” who attended last year’s white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

In an era of secret video recordings and online evaluations, the possibility of public judgment hovers over every instructor. That’s making the messy art of teaching even messier.

The online encyclopedia, once scorned by academics, now pairs them with editors of its crowdsourced content.

The program bills itself as a solution to the student-loan crisis, but experts fear it’s got the wrong answers.

A defamation case against a student and a professor at McGill University raises worries that accusations are being silenced.

Competing letters of support and opposition to Brett Kavanaugh, an alumnus, have circulated among the school’s faculty members, students, and alumni.

Scholars have absorbed administrators’ obsession with measuring and ranking, and it’s keeping us from taking intellectual risks.

A public-radio segment on a book by two scholars omits any mention of the female co-author. Oops.

How feel-good nostrums cover up the university’s cruelty.

The idea that high-achieving, low-income students would be better off attending elite universities does a disservice to the colleges that educate most of the nation’s disadvantaged students.

A recent memoir demonstrates how even the most talented students can be undone by financial stress.

The crises of late capitalism aren’t coming from outside academe: The caller is inside the house.