War rooms, donor outreach, and cutting majors are among the tactics they are using to make themselves sustainable.

Find out more about what small colleges are doing to make themselves sustainable.

Conflicts have mired the efforts of Georgetown University and the Jesuits to make amends for their involvement with slavery. Now a more lasting reconciliation may be in sight.

A love that dare not speak its name.

Fifty years of coeducation at American colleges.

Grace Lavery talks about her body, free speech, and finding transcendence in a hot tub in Sedona, Ariz.

Among the topics are professional development for midcareer faculty members and ways to inspire students to write better.

The decision to remove the accreditation of Bennett College, a women’s HBCU, highlights the need to accommodate varied missions.

A book intended for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became an arts and humanities dean’s new bible.

Even the most virtuous faculty members and administrators involved in employment decisions may have biases that could lead to lawsuits.

Trustees seemed paralyzed by the notion that changing interim leaders was somehow worse than all the damage John Engler was doing.

Cecilia M. McCormick will become chief executive at Elizabethtown in July. Grinnell’s next provost comes from DePauw University.

We need to make a persuasive case.

The college, which has appealed a recent decision to revoke its accreditation, is one of only two historically black women’s colleges in the country.

Right now just 9 percent of prisoners get some form of postsecondary education, a new report says. Increasing that number would reduce recidivism, expand the labor pool, and give them better-paying jobs.

Folt’s decision to remove Silent Sam’s pedestal as she announced her resignation in January won plaudits from some on campus, but she may have worsened the challenges her successor will face.

Hampshire College’s announcement that it’s seeking a partner to stabilize its finances isn’t a dire warning of its possible demise, but it does risk scaring off current and prospective faculty members and students.

Because of imprecise language in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Duke will pay more tax than the University of Alabama on their expensive coaches’ salaries.

The NSF and the NIH had huge backlogs of grant applications when the then-historic 1996 shutdown concluded.

From the workshop to the food bank.

Though the process can be less than exciting, the U.S. Department of Education’s latest effort to rewrite regulations could have lasting effects for colleges.

At an annual conference and in online forums, economists are acknowledging the problem in their field and asking, What more can be done?

Whether you are a chair, a dean, or a provost, the academic freedom that you defend vociferously for others is constricted for you.

Across the entire discipline, there’s only one subfield where the number of tenure-track postings is higher today than it was 20 years ago.