Nov. 30, 2018

Current and former presidents relate their stories of confronting — and overcoming — biases and stereotypes.

Daniel Greenstein, a self-described “erstwhile postsecondary technocrat,” must turn around a collection of struggling campuses that compete fiercely with one another, as well as with an overcrowded field of other public institutions, in a state where he has only tenuous connections.

Michael Bloomberg’s $1.8-billion gift could allow Johns Hopkins to make admissions permanently need-blind. Another gift will help MIT create a College of Computing.

A Princeton-trained scholar examines how Latin and Greek texts are being weaponized by men who want a scholarly gloss for their misogynistic posts.

Learning in college could benefit by being grounded in place and connected to the environment, an English instructor says.

Among the latest topics are how to make student transfers succeed, and an analysis of why white men on campus feel racially oppressed.

While colleges need not cast aside their historic mission, the authors of a new book say, they must still satisfy public demands.

Descriptions of the latest titles, divided by category.

Birmingham-Southern’s next chief is an adjunct professor and board member at the college. Danette Ifert Johnson will move from Ithaca College to Kalamazoo.

Education and moral purpose have parted ways.

Higher-education experts weigh the pros and cons of the philanthropist’s gift.

Accusers would have more options than committing to a full-fledged investigation or doing nothing.

The long-awaited draft rules would replace the Obama administration’s guidance, which had called for more aggressive enforcement of the 1972 law mandating gender equity among colleges that accept federal money.

Current and former students say that the faculty members groped them, plied them with alcohol, and, in some cases, raped them, and that the college was slow to respond to their complaints.

The colleges are competing for a stagnant number of increasingly price-conscious high-school graduates, a survey finds.

Jill Lepore on writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.

A European start-up thinks the technology will bring a new era of speed, cost reduction, and transparency. Skeptics aren’t so sure and point to a history of failed would-be disruptors.

You’ve already interviewed with the whole search committee in Round 1. Why do you have to repeat that exercise in Round 2?

Scholars concerned about repercussions from their work will have a new outlet.

Only when colleges seek a balance of socioeconomic backgrounds in admissions will truly diverse campuses be achieved.

They think they’re the center of the university. They’re not.

The academy has nurtured many partisan causes, but there seem to be few partisans of the academy itself left.

Nearing his 90s, Martin Duberman argues that the movement for equality has faltered.