Collective representation of American Indian, black, and Hispanic students rose slightly from 2010 to 2016, with some colleges seeing large growth.

Fast-growing Southern New Hampshire University represents a new breed of nonprofit institution driven by scale. Could it transform higher education?

Even if the growing number of centers and incubators actually worked, they’d be sending higher education in the wrong direction.

Employers, crying of a skills gap, are using college degrees as a sorting mechanism, says the author of a new book about the unforgiving labor market.

It’s one thing to crack down on overt harassment, but dealing with subtle sexism is a different story. One grad student pushed her professors to try.

Sherine E. Gabriel, Rush University’s next chief, is dean of the medical school at Rutgers. Jim Bennett will become chief of staff at Cleveland State in December.

They helped defeat the incumbent Wisconsin governor and helped elect more than 100 women to Congress, exit polls suggest.

The long-overdue reauthorization of the Higher Education Act would seem to be an issue ripe for a deal. But the chances of that happening are nearly nil. Here’s why both of those statements are true.

The Republicans who won are more conservative and Trump-aligned than those who lost, which means that colleges may have more to worry about than they did before.

Touch-screen kiosks, installed around the campus over the summer, have logged thousands of responses from hundreds of students.

In Wisconsin and other states where Democrats won, don’t expect to see a major shift in thinking about colleges.

Betsy DeVos and the Education Department may soon face more oversight. Student voters turned out, but so did everyone else. Here are our notes from Election Day.

Students for Fair Admissions, which alleges that Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants, forced the university to reveal the inner workings of its admissions process. But what did all the evidence add up to?

The sociologist, who directed the department’s graduate program at the University of Colorado, is being investigated by the flagship campus for sexual misconduct involving people she supervised.

The three-decade publication saga of a revered manuscript.

The university’s largest curricular reorganization in decades helps firm up its position among top-tier programs in the field.

A survey amplifies a cry of pain from borrowers who have accumulated debt far above the average.

Scholars from across the academy give us their picks.

Shutting down speech bolsters the university’s opponents.

The field has never reckoned with its own mistakes.

When academic hiring committees take job candidates out to eat, cultural anxiety is often on the table, too.