Students often don’t complete assigned reading. Professors are finding ways to solve that puzzle.

Self-defense courses that focus on making female students stronger and more confident can be controversial. Some people say they place a burden on women to protect themselves.

We asked African-American scholars about race, merit, and belonging. Here’s what they told us.

Treating nearly 75 percent of the professoriate as disposable is not sustainable.

The Yale historian warns about the risk of totalitarianism under Trump. That’s great for selling books — but scholars are alarmed.

Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek will face off this month in Toronto. So exciting … or so what?

On the purpose of the humanities and who’s the greatest teacher of all time.

Not until your college divests its endowment of fossil fuels.

Whether to lead your department is a question that every faculty member must answer. Here are some factors to help you make the call.

The mission that Hispanic-serving institutions fulfill should go beyond meeting white normative standards, says the author of a new book.

Audrey Bilger, now at Pomona College, will be the first woman to lead Reed. Pitzer’s next chief academic officer comes from Claremont Graduate University.

Carolyn Long will return to lead the technology campus. The Carnegie Corporation of New York selected 32 fellows for 2019.

Other large gifts to colleges will be used for dementia research, buildings, work-force training, and scholarships.

A book on the Romantic lecture reminds a language professor why she prefers to be a “guide at the side” in the classroom.

C. Scott Green, a law-firm officer, will lead the University of Idaho. Two-thirds of this year’s Guggenheim fellows are in academe.

The criminal actions of a few rogue coaches and parents have shined a spotlight on the role that elite colleges play in perpetuating wealth and privilege.

A plan for “reimagining” the university seeks to give it a defined identity. But the proposal faces pushback from faculty members.

Kenneth Rosenthal, appointed interim leader of the troubled college last Friday, spoke with The Chronicle about his new role.

New college-affordability efforts have their roots in student activism.

Facing a budget deficit and enrollment declines, the university had said it would eliminate majors in art, geography, history, and other fields. Now it says the cuts are no longer needed.

When Texas State students voted to bar Turning Point USA, a battle over free speech erupted.

The vast majority of borrowers are ineligible for the state’s income-based repayment programs, which are underwritten by Wall Street.

Texas Tech University’s Health Sciences Center doesn’t think its admissions policy broke the law. But it wanted to resolve a case opened more than a decade ago.

A semester’s worth of dining-hall swipes at the University of Iowa revealed a correlation with retention and graduation rates.

Teach-out programs promise a seamless transition after a college shuts down, but the pressure to make that happen can put a strain on the institutions offering their support.

California State University at San Bernardino is among the few universities of its kind on the quarter system. It’s switching to semesters, and that takes a lot of work.

A negotiated rule-making committee came to an unlikely decision on Wednesday, unanimously approving a wide range of regulatory changes that affect accreditation.