Financial crisis was the mother of invention. An institution in peril of going under five years ago has grown by thousands of students and is planning an offshoot in the United Arab Emirates.

Going test optional hurts disadvantaged students.

Jorge Cham, creator of the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper — PHD Comics for short — reflects on his 20 years of work.

Only one institution had 10 or more Fulbright scholars in 2018-19, and 12 colleges had 20 or more students who were awarded Fulbright grants.

James Madison University thinks its distinctive approach can help students learn to be more innovative.

Colleges that are going through bumpy fiscal times look to mission-oriented, optimistic strategists to execute a turnaround.

Robert Iuliano, general counsel at Harvard, will become president of Gettysburg. Kennesaw State’s business dean will move up to be provost.

The slump shows that President Trump’s changes in visa policies may have an impact on international applications and first-time enrollments, leading to a troubling downhill trend.

A new paper complicates the evidence on the advantages of taking notes by hand. But there’s more to consider in crafting your electronics policy.

Despite pushback from faculty, staff, and students, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will keep its agreements with the kingdom.

A job ad looks for help in English, history, mathematics, and many other areas. University officials say they’re just trying to keep classes running, but union leaders decry the posting as a “scare tactic.”

Eastern Virginia Medical School leaders pledge that they’ll examine the culture that allowed blackface and Ku Klux Klan imagery into the commemorative publication.

The university will never move completely past the turmoil, said Linda Livingstone, who was brought in to steady the ship after her predecessor and other campus officials lost their jobs amid mishandled reports of rape.

After surpassing its $5-million goal, the historically black women’s college must make its case to its accreditor at a hearing this month.

Angela Henderson, the former provost, sued her alma mater after she was accused of plagiarism and the institution publicly discussed her academic history.

The former judge, Clinton investigator, and Baylor president is certainly a major get. But some critics said his presence at a meeting focused on Title IX and sexual misconduct was problematic.

The university’s leaders have defended an emergency alert, but some faculty members don’t buy it. At best, they say, the administration bungled. At worst, it meant to stifle speech.

Admissions officials were encouraged by panelists at a conference to stay the course, and continue to work to ensure that underrepresented minority students have access to higher education.

The Department of Homeland Security was behind the fake university, which aimed to catch undocumented immigrants and those helping them to obtain fraudulent student visas.

Be skeptical of any grass-is-greener hype about your nonacademic career options.