Mark J. Rudin, coming from Boise State University, will succeed Ray M. Keck III at the Texas A&M campus. Fifteen of the 22 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars this year come from higher education.

New technologies promise to make the classroom experience more interactive and personal, but they also raise concerns about ethics and privacy.

Hierarchies die hard, but prestige should be based less on exclusivity and more on serving all students, says Elaine Maimon of Governors State University.

Philosophy has attracted its second major gift of the year, with a $20-million donation to UCLA’s philosophy department.

Here’s how to make the most of every opportunity during the interview process to determine whether a job candidate would be a good colleague.

Claudia V. Schrader, CUNY Kingsborough Community College’s new chief executive, comes from another campus in the system. University of Virginia’s new provost will start next year.

Policies and laws that hinder open dialogue, like those being pushed by some conservative groups, will prevent students from learning from one another, says the institute’s director of free expression.

Fallout from incidents at Michigan State, the University of Southern California, and Ohio State has driven institutions to add new protective measures — both to safeguard students and to minimize their own liability.

Professors find they must navigate political minefields with every lesson.

An immunity clause added in 2016 to encourage students to report assaults doesn’t help when their bishops control their eligibility to attend college.

When outlandish stories about powerful people enter the mainstream, Joseph Uscinski’s phone rings off the hook. The political scientist discusses why so many people believe those tales — and how to communicate with those true believers.

The Florida Institute of Technology has functioned for 60 years without tenure. Why change now? Competition for faculty members, its leaders say.

Urban Meyer isn’t the first coach to be accused of mishandling domestic-violence allegations. But his university’s tough initial response reflects a new climate of caution in college sports.

The heads of Penn State, Louisiana State, and Florida State are leading a small but growing cohort of college presidents who are tired of worrying every weekend that a student is going to die.

Lecturing at a university for over three decades didn’t save an instructor from having to go through a baffling background check when he agreed to return there the next semester.

After a newspaper reports that the College of Charleston “quietly” did away with race-conscious admissions two years ago, the institution resumes the practice — but insists nothing has changed.

Michael Kimmel of Stony Brook University says he will not attend his discipline’s scholarly awards ceremony this month in Philadelphia.

The rapid growth of such courses makes the Lone Star State an important bellwether of the growth taking place nationally.

Here are the steps Congress should take to eliminate the excesses and shortcomings of current student-debt programs.

Olin College of Engineering has built its brand on being different. So its leaders wanted to make sure applicants understood what it would be like to work there.