Explore new data on the race, ethnicity, and gender of students at more than 3,800 colleges and universities.

Julie Schumacher, whose new novel is The Shakespeare Requirement, has earned acclaim as an academic satirist. But she won’t be pigeonholed.

Volcanoes, permafrost, and a lengthy coastline with sea ice are a few of the natural wonders that scientists flock to Alaska to study.

The University of Texas at Tyler infamously revoked the full-ride scholarships it had promised to scores of applicants from Nepal. But that’s not the end of the story.

Many institutions have examined their exploitation of slaves. Now they are also looking at their complicity in segregation and other bigotries even as they fight off new white-supremacist threats.

Some scholars’ expectations were confirmed. Others found that their regions defied stereotypes.

Together the two gifts are worth $200 million. They will support health sciences, and computer science and engineering.

Consensus-style government is a “powerful magnet,” says the president.

They make the most of their “off the beaten path” locations to draw students and faculty members.

At Northland College, 90 percent of courses deal with sustainability.

Why we embrace the messy art of authentic conversations at Southern Methodist University.

It’s debilitating to be asked constantly to give free lessons in cultural competency, while negotiating resistance from other corners.

Students from poor and working-class backgrounds can struggle even after making it to your elite campus.

A college president, once a city dweller, sees his rural post as an opportunity to live at a cultural intersection, among neighbors.

Had I known the cascading effects of taking a position in Colorado Springs, I probably would have declined the job offer.

The wealth created in new digital spaces should be used on cybereducation programs for people and places being left behind — programs that would also enhance our national security.

To gain the confidence to help their institutions thrive, leaders might start by identifying their insecurities.

An author examines the ways in which elite colleges can be toxic to the minority faculty members they hire, and what might be done to improve the situation.

Topics include best practices in grading students’ creative work and the ethical lessons about consent to sex that campuses may be overlooking.

Paulette Dillard has served as the interim leader of of Shaw since July 2017. Nicolle Cestero moves from Title IX coordinator to chief of staff at American International.

A good higher education enables a person to come to grips with the world more deeply, broadly, and richly, and thereby to contribute to what the world has to offer.

At many colleges, non-tenure-track professors can advocate as faculty senators for issues that affect them. But not at the University of Mississippi, until now.

As sexual-harassment allegations mount against the husband of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater’s chancellor, women are saying the chancellor failed them and must resign. A former graduate student makes new accusations.

The scholar and free-speech advocate was surprised that the education secretary cited him in a speech on Monday. He says she oversimplified his stance on the state of campus discourse.

Campuses have used the approach to deal with a wide range of incidents of minor wrongdoing. But until recently, they’ve been reluctant to use it for sexual misconduct.

Pressure from state governments and prospective students pushed public research universities, private colleges, and other institutions to promote their job-ready graduates and their impact on the local economy.

Some students and alumni are worried that their voices will be left out of the high-profile trial.

Saying research on Maria’s death toll in Puerto Rico is bogus, the president makes a pointed challenge to higher-ed standards and values.

The university system commissioned a Gallup survey after a liberal graduate student berated a conservative undergrad. Among other things, Gallup found that some students — and faculty members — were anxious about speaking their minds.

A new report on the Urbana-Champaign campus’s controversial Chief Illiniwek mascot, which was retired in 2007, acknowledges more than regret that “we are not further along in the process.”

During Judy Genshaft’s years at the university’s helm, both it and American higher education have changed drastically.

The department said colleges and schools could save hundreds of millions of dollars under its forthcoming sexual-misconduct regulations. But experts on the gender-equity law doubt that claim.

To avoid disappointment and conflict later, now is the time for colleges to develop guidelines and boundaries for students at commencement.

Emotion, ego, and ideology jumble with finances, and the solutions are never simple and self-evident.