News
Indiana University at South Bend’s interim chancellor will lead Georgia Gwinnett. Nicholas S. Zeppos will step down after 11 years at the helm of Vanderbilt.
News
It might be difficult to understand her work in partial differential equations, but her contributions as a mentor in her field are clear.
News
Watching their fathers serve as presidents paved the way for these women to lead those same campuses.
Chronicle List
Of the 13 private nonprofit colleges that had graduation rates of 95 percent or above in 2017, seven were in the Ivy League.
News
The president of Saint Anselm College will lead Endicott. An interim college president in Georgia will be the next chief academic officer at Northridge.
Backgrounder
More than 500,000 students have been displaced in the past five years, many of them working adults who had hoped that college would be their path to the middle class.
News
The University of Kentucky is the latest campus where students want the administration to pay more attention to their basic needs.
Academic Freedom
Villanova University added new diversity and inclusion questions to its course survey. Some professors, conservative and liberal alike, worry they could be used against them.
News
On Tuesday senators discussed how they might address campus sexual assault, including hot-button issues like cross-examination of accusers, in the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.
News
The recipients, Indian River State College and Miami Dade College, continue a tradition of winning by community colleges in the state.
Legal
The University of Arizona students, who were protesting the agents’ appearance at an on-campus career fair, have been arrested and cited for misdemeanors.
Campus Speech
The national debate has become “a deeply partisan feud, with each side trying to catch the other in transgressive acts that can be amplified to rile up the faithful.”
News
Because they finish classes about a month behind their peers on the semester calendar, critics say they are at an unexpected disadvantage in their job search.
Faculty Diversity
Thirteen scholars say they’ll cut ties with the university’s ethnicity, race, and migration program, which they say has been stifled by a lack of resources and stature, despite a $50-million effort to diversify the faculty.
The Review
The antidote to randomness in the college-admissions process isn’t more randomness.
Video
When Argosy University, a for-profit college system, suddenly closed in March, Kendrick Harrison didn’t just lose his foothold in higher education. He and his family lost their home.
Admissions
The proposals include a review of whether ACT or SAT scores are necessary and a ban on preferences for the children of donors and alumni.
News
Some Roman Catholic colleges say that because of their unique religious missions, they should be allowed to decide for themselves whether to let their adjuncts unionize.
Legal
A onetime dean of international studies says the institution paid her less because she is a woman and retaliated against her for speaking her mind.
Campus Safety
Despite vocal protests from students and community members, Maryland’s House of Delegates voted to approve a bill to create an armed police force for the university.
Athletics
For professors at Morehouse College, the three-day workshop represents a chance to extend their teachings beyond the traditional classroom, to people who are in a position to be widely heard.
News
The request has drawn ridicule, especially from conservative news outlets. It’s part of activists’ broader push, though, to make the college rethink how it meets the needs of low-income students.
Advice
“I did not always understand how much labor, thought, and care went into meaningful mentoring, how emotionally draining that work can be, and how little prepared I was for it.”