Meet the people who defined the year in academe.

They make up the vast majority of the faculty, and they teach 40 percent of introductory humanities courses. Student retention and a college’s overall success rest largely on their shoulders.

The donation will help the university expand undergraduate enrollment. Gifts to other colleges were for honors scholarships and a theater renovation.

Shifting remedial studies to high schools may benefit students and colleges, but new research shows that improving students’ chances of success is more complicated than that.

A few years ago, the Princeton historian brought his scholarship to hostile territory: Twitter. It made him famous and sent a message to the field that a serious scholar can also throw punches.

What Latino students learn in college is amplified by whatever support and hostility they encounter there, says the author of a new book.

The latest titles include a guide to investigating student misconduct and a description of a new interactive model of teaching.

Wagner’s next chief is provost at Franklin and Marshall College. San Antonio’s vice president for information management comes from the University of North Texas.

Campus officials have asked professors to consider declining to review articles for the publishing giant’s journals, and to consider open-access journals instead.

Noble Jones, an academic researcher, got to peek inside the admissions process of one selective liberal-arts college. What he found sheds light on the “garbage can” model of decision making.

The search is down to a sole finalist after two contenders declined to be publicly named, and one regent says the imperfect process may also have violated open-meetings laws.

Joe Gow brought an adult-film star to the La Crosse campus for free-speech week; Beverly Kopper’s husband was found responsible for sexually harassing employees at UW-Whitewater.

A recent essay that was critical of student evaluations was also unfairly critical of today’s students.

For Billie Murray, getting close to her research subjects occasionally means choking through tear gas or dodging flash grenades.

Master’s University and Seminary was raked over the coals for “unmatched” lapses in ethics and accountability, and reviewers said the rot begins at the top. Can the institution make change around its powerful president?

No, doctoral students complaining about a toxic adviser aren’t just whining about the workload.