The institutions are upgrading learning platforms, bargaining with vendors, trading course offerings, and collecting and analyzing vast data that could change how they teach.

If we really want a diverse society, a focus on the Ivy League is woefully misplaced.

Carol L. Folt, former chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will lead the University of Southern California.

America’s global academic engagement began as a response to 9/11 and ended with the embrace of Trump’s America First platform.

Advances in computing will benefit traditional scholarship — not compete with it.

Computational literary study offers correctives to problems that literary scholarship was never confused about in the first place.

A new report analyzing 100 urban campuses’ partnerships points to a need to repair “broken trust” and build “reciprocal, local relationships” in their communities.

How did we decide that professors don’t deserve job security or a decent salary?

A study finds that the institutions, trying to offset drops in state support, are using out-of-state recruiting practices biased against low-income and minority students in their own states.

Something’s got to give, librarians are saying. Their budgets are flat, and prices of bulk journal subscriptions, dubbed “big deals,” keep going up.

As legal pressure mounts against the makers of OxyContin, universities that have been the beneficiaries of their donations are being pressed to evaluate their relationship with the family.

Calling for more ideological balance among administrators and the programming they offer to students, the Sarah Lawrence College professor of politics ran into bitter criticism on his campus.

Two current students, and a former one, say they faced bias. The accusations come only two months after controversy over treatment of Asian students in another program.

The university is alleged to have accepted $200 million in federal research grants after submitting falsified and fabricated lab results.

Conservative pundits say liberal criticism of controversial speakers chills the climate for speech. Some liberals and academics say the real victims are professors who have become the targets of right-wing media outlets.

While the language is restrained, skeptics worry about how federal agencies will determine if a college is violating free-speech laws and policies.

When several campus governing bodies voted to move the monument, the interim chancellor, Larry D. Sparks, said the university had agreed that it should be “relocated to a more suitable location.”

The thousands of faculty members who have lost their jobs in the shutdowns of small, private colleges might wonder what path is best taken next. They might look to professors at Dowling College, which closed in 2016.

The portraits of an enslaved father and his daughter ought to belong to a descendant, rather than to the university, says a lawsuit.

The armies of consultants, software vendors, journals, foundations, institutes, and organizations are operating on a false premise.

The chief backer of the venture, which has not been previously disclosed, is an investment fund that was headed by a financier charged in the admissions-bribery case.

A “childfree” academic mulls the delicate kid issue in the context of teaching, tenure, and faculty life.