Nurturing junior scholars of color is key to their careers, but also to the insights they may bring to HIV-prevention efforts. It’s a model, funders and researchers say, for work in other fields.

An alumnus gave a major gift to support the redesign of Harvard’s arts campus. A $52-million bequest went to George Mason University’s law school.

One of the responsibilities of higher education, a university administrator says, is to help students become ethical leaders.

The latest titles offer guidance on issues like how to help students cope after traumatic events on campus, and how to teach students with learning disabilities.

In a new book a political scientist argues that the way the cases are handled on campuses harms both the accusers and the accused.

Joyce McConnell will leave West Virginia University to lead Colorado State. The University of Maryland-Eastern Shore’s next chief academic officer comes from Yale University.

Colleges should be forced to defend their decisions in public.

Women on Rowan University’s cross-county and track-and-field teams had complained for years about subtle sexism, and a ban on sports bras without shirts was a final insult. Now they say they’re still being treated like the problem.

In the throes of multiple crises, including the admissions scandal, the University of Southern California wanted a leader who had spent time in the crucible. They just got one.

Alan B. Krueger, a titan in the field, died by suicide last weekend. As colleagues mourned, they also noted an academic culture that makes disclosing mental illness difficult.

Cecil P. Staton will step down as chancellor, and not everyone is happy with the move. Steven B. Long, a member of the university system’s Board of Governors, said its chairman is to blame and should be removed.

Outrage swirled after “Operation Varsity Blues” went public last week. So we asked the admissions gatekeepers if reform was necessary.

The White House is asking Congress to rethink accreditation, Pell Grants, and student-loan repayment as it considers reauthorizing the Higher Education Act.

Candidates are staking out their positions, and new plans are emerging. But the proposals vary widely, creating confusion about whom they really help.

The admissions-bribery scandal has poured gas on the fire of a university already smarting from corruption in the athletics department and in the upper administration.

Harvard, Michigan, Rice, and other universities subscribe to the popular career resource for graduate students. Now, with the foundation’s leader indicted, the service’s future is uncertain.

They say their applications to universities named in the unfolding scandal weren’t fairly evaluated in a system “warped and rigged by fraud.”

The children — many of whom were admitted thanks to their parents’ alleged involvement in admissions-bribery schemes — have not spoken publicly. Those with high-profile families have tuned out of social media.

Lynn Novick, a longtime collaborator of the documentarian Ken Burns, profiled the Bard Prison Initiative in College Behind Bars, a four-part series that will air on PBS this year.

A great failure in our current academic system is the inconsistency of managers receiving — or providing — regular, specific, quality feedback on job performance.