March 22, 2019

Subscriptions to scholarly journals and other serial titles represented nearly a third of all expenditures at academic libraries.

They’re alive, despite being rebutted, criticized, and cast out of the disciplines from which they came!

Jerome Karabel, author of a lengthy history of Ivy League admissions, thinks the recent headlines can shed light on more deep-seated problems.

W. Mark Tew, provost at Howard Payne University, will take the helm at Judson, in Alabama. Auburn’s new vice president comes from Georgia State University.

Some made millions in bribes by using such slots as a commodity in an arbitrage scheme.

What the admissions-bribery scandal reveals about parenting toward a narrow definition of success in an anxious age.

Those who decide who gets in are powerful, even if they are not to blame.

In the scandal over admissions fraud, some of angriest voices are those of advocates for people with learning disabilities.

The rich and powerful have been buying spots at elite institutions for years.

A primer on the wide-ranging scheme.

A professor of political science at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln confronts “a bit of a dark moment for me.”

Some scholars want the field to avoid politics. But is that even possible?

Conservative skeptics are using salary databases and records requests to drive a flawed narrative about wasteful spending at public universities.

It includes a $7-billion cut for the Department of Education, a streamlined repayment process for student loans, and the elimination of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

The field speaks to policy makers. It needs to speak more to the public.

On Friday the organization shuttered its campuses across the country, displacing thousands of students. For months its leaders had been telling them that everything would be OK.

Some prospective students at Grinnell and Hamilton received emails promising “absolutely unfiltered” information about their applications. For a hefty fee.

In the span of three months, the University of Pennsylvania created a new framework for scheduling appointments.

Geoffrey Stone, a legal scholar at the University of Chicago, had told a story, with an offensive epithet, to illustrate the “fighting words” doctrine. But students have convinced him the word isn’t worth “the distraction and the harm it causes.”

Larry Sparks said the university would weigh the concerns of students after the student government voted unanimously to have the statue moved from the center of campus.

By proclaiming the gospel of human progress, the Harvard psychologist has made a lot of enemies.

Advance, a privately held media, communications, and technology company, will pay $1.735 billion to purchase Turnitin, which dominates the work of rooting out academic cheaters.

When academic self-regard becomes an intellectual style.

A tried-and-true technique can help you resume a project that has stalled for personal or professional reasons.