Sept. 7, 2018

A professor schemed to get a raise and win his department’s respect. Instead he wrecked his career.

Three Canadian universities were among the 10 doctoral institutions that scored highest in the 2018 Sustainable Campus Index.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

Fully realized, they have the potential to transform higher education.

There are lots of ways to help them get on the right track. Here are some that colleges are experimenting with.

Liberal-arts institutions are coming to see educational and vocational ideals as complementary.

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law, thinks the arguments about free speech at colleges could use a few more reasonable people.

Higher education has historically been a bulwark against authoritarianism — or its pawn. What’ll it be this time?

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences’ new chief comes from the University of South Dakota. Chase F. Robinson, of CUNY, will become director of two galleries in Washington, D.C.

As powerful supporters want the statue to be restored, student activists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argue that it should never return.

If it seems as if you’re just kicking the tires, your candidacy will fall flat.

A union representing hundreds of University of California librarians is seeking explicit recognition of what they see as a right in a new contract. Administrators disagree.

Don’t ever stop teaching and doing research, say those who have succeeded as professors again.

Francis Fukuyama on global politics, campus politics, and being a student of Paul de Man and Allan Bloom.

After higher-education policy makers suggested rethinking the allocation of state funds to public colleges, the president of the flagship university, with decades of leadership experience, used his clout to stymie the plan.

Academics underestimate how our willingness to sign things — petitions, letters — can do real harm.

An investigation found that the coach treats “respect for women” as a “core value.” But it also criticized his oversight of an assistant coach charged with attacking his wife, and doubted whether Meyer was entirely truthful with investigators.

Institutional review boards, which act as checks on research that involves human subjects, don’t come free. And now the cost might be passed on to researchers.

Urban Meyer initially denied but later conceded that he knew one of his assistant coaches had been accused of domestic violence by his wife.

A longstanding policy of the institution’s predecessor is now in the spotlight. It could even prohibit discussions of teaching.

The faculty members are questioning, among other things, how they will address a student’s death in their own classes this fall, as investigations continue on the College Park campus.

The system that gave rise to the celebrity scholar confronts the reality of the shrinking job market.

In the self-serving subculture of retweeting for fame, some universities have been hit with repeated requests for free tuition — if a prospective student can spur a storm of retweets.

Some faculty and staff members at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania have been raising alarms for years about mold and other problems in offices, classrooms, and corridors.

Taking a page from Jonathan Swift, one college president has a suggestion for improving the most popular college-ranking process.

Now that Modesto Maidique is a critic of Florida International University, its board is having second thoughts.

We may not know how to measure it, or even if it exists, but that’s no reason to stop talking about it.

The test-prep giant is restructuring in hopes of ensuring its “financial health.” Internal documents suggest that consumers see the company as “remote and inaccessible.”

What lessons does the $24-million-a-year effort hold for higher ed?

Mentoring athletes in McDaniel College’s Division III program has changed Gretchen McKay’s perspective on the challenges today’s students face — and even how she teaches.

The university’s president, Wallace D. Loh, had rejected a recommendation to give sports doctors autonomy from the athletics department, The Washington Post reported.

Nimrod Reitman said that while she was his Ph.D. adviser, Avital Ronell “repeatedly and forcefully” kissed and groped him. Meanwhile, a petition is demanding that one of her most prominent defenders step down as the MLA’s president-elect.

The Democratic nominee for governor, Stacey Abrams, owes $96,000 for her college and law degrees. But she’s not the only candidate for high office this year who has borrowed to pay for college.

Amid criticism of the artwork, the university commissioned a new one and added context to the original.

Higher education needs clear rules of engagement: no honorary titles, no named lectures, no keynote speeches.

Here’s how to assist your new colleagues in their first year on the campus.

Like many universities, the Ivy League institution is asking itself how to interact with its ugly past. Naming an arch after former slave who worked there is a step forward, some historians say.

An economics professor writes a guide that mixes the encouraging, the practical, and the matter-of-fact.

The downfall of USC’s president seemed sudden, but a campus culture shaped by poor top-down communication and a lack of trust inexorably led to it.

Michael Sharp, a Binghamton University instructor, has spent the last 12 years blogging about crosswords to a devoted following. His site now looks retro, but it’s facing all the debates and dilemmas of the modern internet.