The surveys are rife with bias, and educational and legal considerations are upping the pressure to change them and maybe even eliminate them.

Highly selective colleges tend to see nearly all of their freshmen return the next year. But what about colleges that accept most of their applicants?

To reach second-in-command at America’s top research institutions, it helps to be a scientist — and to come from the inside.

At Ivy League colleges and public universities, the officials are working to strengthen a commitment to educate Native American students.

Sarah C. Mangelsdorf will become Rochester’s chief this summer. Louisiana State’s new chief academic officer has been in the interim role since April.

José Bou thinks there’s a lot to be learned from those who haven’t “gone through the education system the traditional way.”

Campuses are not courtrooms, and everyone will lose if we pretend that they are.

New guidance from the Education Department gives colleges more flexibility in verifying students’ information when they apply for financial aid.

William R. Jacoby, a professor at Michigan State University, had drawn criticism for defending himself on the website of the journal he edited. Two separate investigations found that he had harassed two students.

Many conversations at academic conferences continue after hours, at the bar. Scholars who abstain from drinking want some other type of space for networking.

Pessimism reigns. But American universities have never been stronger.

Faculty members are concerned that students can’t afford the books they need, a new survey found. And for many instructors, open educational resources still aren’t the answer.

Female students argue that the administration’s approach to halting gender discrimination has endangered gender-exclusive spaces that weren’t part of the problem.

The agreement follows a four-year battle between university officials and two professors over their First Amendment rights to criticize administrators on a blog.

Portland State University has notified Peter Boghossian that his participation in the elaborate hoax had violated the university’s ethical guidelines.

A scholar was told he got his job only because he’s black, and other two academics of color were questioned by security at an annual classics meeting in San Diego.

The department recommends major changes in federal rules. But some question whether the steps are feasible, and even if they would fix the right problems.

G.P. (Bud) Peterson said his employees’ misconduct hadn’t cut short his decade-long tenure — if anything, it extended it.

The humanities are anomalous in their focus on academe as being “the one true career path” for students, said a panelist at the MLA conference, and new data about where graduates work reflect that.

The “Trump effect” has fueled worry that international students might be scared off. But amid worsening economic trends and feuding governments, Chinese students might simply go elsewhere.

Introducing concepts of ambiguous or contested meaning into academic evaluations will turn them into political litmus tests.

By not standing up for adjuncts, tenure-track professors have undermined their own power.

They whitewash the grubby scramble for power.

Radical differences in the humanities and sciences haven’t gone away — they’ve intensified.

There are many good reasons to teach in the two-year sector, but you need to be aware of the drawbacks, too.