An alumni couple gave UVa the large donation, while Northeastern University and Spelman College received big gifts from members of their Boards of Trustees.

They identify practical training and preparation that would have made their lives easier in the new job.

Here’s what the journey to an American college is like for students from the other side of the world.

Hilary Link will become chief executive at Allegheny in July. Tuft’s next provost is the engineering dean at Northeastern University.

The scam relies on understanding scholarly workplace dynamics and exploiting the trove of information on college websites.

Both sides point to mutual mistrust between the top brass and the faculty.

After another racist video went viral, students and faculty members at the university rallied to demand “zero tolerance for hate speech” and a stronger commitment to diversity.

Higher education saw a net loss of just one foreign-language program from 2009 to 2013, according to the Modern Language Association. From 2013 to 2016, the loss grew to 651.

Students are broadcasting their college experience to big audiences online. Among the viewers are high-schoolers eager to get a closer look at a prospective college.

Students for Fair Admissions alleges that Chapel Hill gives “significant racial preferences” to underrepresented minority applicants. The university calls its approach “constitutionally sound.”

The previously unreported connections are the latest in a longstanding series of ties between the president and the Christian university in Virginia.

Controversy over the removal of the Silent Sam statue serves as a reminder that it is not a college’s duty to protect people from ideas they find offensive or distasteful.

A tenured pharmacy instructor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City has stepped down amid allegations that he forced students to be his servants.

Dan-el Padilla Peralta was told at a conference that he had been hired because he’s black. He reflects on the whiteness of classics and why incremental change is not enough.

Five lessons from the experience of applying for the tenure-track version of your previously contingent job.