When she was first asked to create an online curriculum, Dana Grossman Leeman said no way. Learning she could bring a personal touch to the virtual classroom made her a convert.

Two universities in Texas will name their mechanical-engineering departments in honor of J. Mike Walker, a manufacturer who gave each of them $20 million.

There is more to weigh than just the amount of money saved and the number of programs expanded.

The finances, logistics, and diplomacy are daunting. But if leaders can swallow their pride and work toward compromise, consolidations sometimes make very good sense.

If you’re planning a new building, consider design features that will help bring in income beyond the school year.

An experimental course exposes first-generation students to the unwritten rules and unspoken expectations of an elite university.

If colleges want to make good on their promises to prepare students for the world beyond the classroom, they should use methods that teach digital skills safely and ethically.

What’s needed to produce real change is intrinsic, rather than extrinsic, motivation.

Institutions that use online survey data to group students into segments can personalize campus services and put themselves on stronger financial footing.

Awards like badges can get instructors more interested in teaching workshops, some campuses have found. But they don’t work everywhere.

A campuswide program to encourage new forms of teaching is helping reshape the undergraduate experience.

Professors essentially apply to join a study that’s already in progress, avoiding the institutional-review-board process that is described as “onerous.”

Ohio University supplies resources to put proposals for transformation to the test.

Baldwin Wallace University’s decision to expand its study-abroad offerings has led to some rare faculty-development opportunities, as professors develop close ties with counterparts in Zambia.

The battle to transform Southern higher education a half-century ago resonates today, says the author of a new book about the “Jim Crow campus.”

A 35-year-old report on the state of education reminds a professor of how much work remains to be done.

The latest titles include examinations of student-conduct practices and of alternative teacher-education programs.

On countless TV screens, Independence Community College stands for second chances. But to many people who live in the Kansas town, watching the show that made their town famous is like staring into a broken mirror.

The next leader of the Naval Postgraduate School has been president of College of DuPage since 2016. Cabrini’s new provost comes from Cottey College.

After years of debate, a state supreme court’s ruling gave “great weight” to Katherine Beckett’s analysis of race in criminal justice.

It’s a two-step process that starts in the classroom and winds up being embedded in the campus culture.

Social changes like the #MeToo movement have opened students’ eyes to the benefits of women’s colleges, their leaders say.

The American Political Science Association and the American Association of University Professors asked the university to rethink its response to faculty members who decline to support students bound for Israel.

Fueled by $650 million in gifts so far and 50 faculty hires, a new college will break down interdisciplinary silos and explore both the future and implications of the growing field.

The latest front in the fight over affirmative action opens in a federal courtroom in Boston and could have lasting implications for colleges nationwide.

Colleges are inspiring distrust not because they are abandoning their mission but because they are doing their best to carry it out.

The survey, sponsored by the Association of American Universities, prompted more hiring for Title IX offices and other shifts to improve how campuses respond to reports of sexual misconduct.

Complaints about sexual harassment inside the esteemed public-policy institute have provoked a difficult reflection about how big donors and scholars alike let its culture go so wrong.

One of the most common mistakes that new Ph.D.s make on the job market is ignoring the two-year sector.

In theory, institutions that fall short of standards for the percentage of students who default on federal loans stand to lose their federal aid. In practice, that rarely happens.