Oct. 12, 2018

Eight University of Wisconsin campuses were among the top 50 for the percentage of students who were not awarded any grant aid in 2015-16.

Student collaboration across political lines, early planning, careful crowd control, and public preparatory discussion of free-speech principles are among the ways colleges can make a potentially tense situation manageable.

How the university became a profit-generating cog in the corporate machine.

Scandals in the mid-20th century led to a series of protections. Now that we’re all under scrutiny, who will keep us safe?

It’s not the morally lax scholar who’s most vulnerable. It’s the honest one.

How one community college faced up to its students’ struggles with opioid addiction and vowed to help them fight for their lives.

Bethami Dobkin took the helm of the college, in Salt Lake City, in July. Harvard’s new alumni-affairs chief comes from the California Institute of Technology.

The physician and literary scholar Rita Charon, a pioneer in narrative medicine, explains how to train students to listen like readers, the theme of this year’s Jefferson Lecture.

A former board chair is said to have used a racial slur to describe black athletes, and a former Title IX official details how she was prevented from doing her job. Meanwhile, the NCAA has issued a formal notice of violations.

Christine Fair said “entitled white men” like those defending Brett Kavanaugh merit “miserable deaths while feminists laugh.” In a statement the university recognized free-speech rights, condemned violent imagery, but did not name her once.

Educators expressed relief that President Trump had been dissuaded from acting on the visa proposal, but they worried it could be a prelude to future policies that could undermine higher education’s global outreach.

The University of Montana is appealing a penalty levied by the Education Department for failure to report campus-crime data.

The journals are shaping scholars’ research agendas — and not for the better.

If the education secretary knowingly funnels federal grants and loans to for-profit colleges in defiance of the law, she could face fines or even jail.

The social-networking service mysteriously reinstated them later in the same day.

Some explained to students how the testimony related to what they were learning, while others threw away the lesson plan entirely.

After a Michigan professor made headlines by refusing to write a letter of recommendation for a student going to Israel, other professors describe how they’ve supported the BDS movement in their academic roles.

Administrators and lawyers who handle campus sexual-misconduct cases drew parallels between the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday and their jobs.

He will remain on paid leave while the University of California at Santa Cruz considers further disciplinary action.

A Michigan professor’s refusal to recommend a worthy student for study in Israel is both an ethical breach and potentially discriminatory.

Brian Wansink says his retirement has been “in the works for a long time,” but it comes as a university investigation takes him to task for “misreporting of research data, problematic statistical techniques,” and other violations.

A letter obtained by The Chronicle suggests that the department offered “flexibility” to colleges that were left without an accreditor after the Obama administration stripped the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools of its recognition.