Sept. 21, 2018

The median number of managers per 1,000 students in 2016 was twice as high for four-year private nonprofit colleges as it was for four-year public colleges.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

Universities don’t really care about communicating with the public, says the world-famous astrophysicist.

After decades of relying on state support, these workhorse institutions often need to build fund-raising operations from scratch. Here’s how some California campuses are taking on the challenge.

Nearly two decades ago, historians embraced a hugely wasteful federal education program. It’s past time to reckon with that.

Policies like the Chicago Statement leave undergrads out of the room. That’s a mistake.

The idea of sexual consent is too intellectually rich — and too important — to relegate it to extracurricular workshops.

More institutions are hiring administrators with “inclusive excellence” in their job titles, and some of them sit in the president’s cabinet.

Professors share the emails they use to “nudge” students at key moments in a course.

Start by building excitement, says a professor who teaches large courses at the University of Arizona.

Tavarez Holston took the helm at Georgia Piedmont this week. Dan Hasler was at the Purdue Research Foundation before taking Purdue University’s top communications role.

Some songs of their songs are angsty, some are sweet, and some — well, many — are a little bit nerdy.

Are the foot soldiers behind psychology’s replication crisis saving science — or destroying it?

Three years ago, the University of Texas at Austin took down a campus monument to Jefferson Davis. That offers one possible solution to the question now facing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A partnership, announced on Monday, brings together families and the governing organizations of the nation’s fraternities and sororities. The coalition follows months of meetings among them.

One prominent sexual-assault researcher says clear, evidence-based policies are needed but have yet to be created.

Two new reports ignore the many ways that state plans make a college education more affordable — and more realistic — for financially needy families.

Professors are grappling with how to teach works by an academic star found responsible for harassment — and by her broad network of supporters.

A few researchers rushed into the burning building to haul out artifacts before the growing inferno forced them out.

Diversity-hiring strategies, cultural-competence training, curricular changes, and a busy student-heritage calendar are among the efforts at MiraCosta College, in Southern California. But these practices are controversial and difficult, with setbacks and resistance at every step.

Researchers detected no real increase in faculty diversity at universities that had hired diversity officials. But, as one author of the study explains, it’s complicated.

When genuine criticism is undertaken at the risk of ostracism, marginalization, retribution — this is a culture where abuses like hers grow.

Why the canon is necessary for social justice.

In the literary humanities, a sea change is underway in the job-search process and the discipline itself.

The Stanford Prison Experiment lasted just six days, and it took place 47 years ago. But it has shaped our fundamental understanding of human nature. Now many in the field are wondering: Should it have?

A confluence of expertise, enthusiasm, talent, and social responsibility makes universities the logical first responders to the growing climate-change crisis.