As a bribery scandal lays bare everything that is wrong in admissions, the Education Conservancy’s Lloyd Thacker ponders higher ed’s future and his own legacy.

A professor says the protesters who commandeered his book talk demonstrated the corrosive power of racial resentment.

Amid financial pressures and campus controversies, colleges are also facing a growing threat from their environments.

The challenges faced by even small colleges in reaching the complex goal call for creative energy.

The new spaces, which borrow ideas from the coworking movement and Amazon’s stores, are heavy on amenities but light on classrooms.

Recent buildings in 2018 and 2019 reflect trends toward more light and air, and renovating Modern landmarks.

A century after Modernism reached American shores, contemporary buildings are still second-class citizens on many campuses.

A seminal work on campus planning shows how some higher-ed values have changed.

The university’s plan to cut subsidies to its scholarly press is dystopian.

Whether or not you have the leverage of a second job offer, ask your potential department for what you deserve (within reason).

Jack Shannon will lead Christian Brothers, in Memphis. Valencia College’s next vice president for academic affairs comes from Florida International University.

New York and Harvard Universities each had construction in progress that exceeded $1 billion at the end of 2016-17.

Given the success of a four-day occupation of a fraternity house, students elsewhere could be inspired to follow suit.

The University of Colorado system’s finalist is drawing fire, and its once-unanimous board is now fractured. Meantime, the University of South Carolina system punted on a choice of four finalists.

A federal judge tosses the former Penn State chief’s conviction tied to Jerry Sandusky’s crimes.

Discontinuing the $1.7 million in funding would have effectively doomed the esteemed publisher, critics said.

The conventional approach to helping students evaluate sources on the internet doesn’t work, research suggests. But “lateral reading” is a promising alternative.

Emotions at the University of Arizona continue to run high after student protesters taunted members of the U.S. Border Patrol.

In the well-populated field of candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for president, proposals for free college are central to the party’s platform.

The sky has not fallen since 2016, for either graduate students or their universities. And now collective bargaining is proceeding on a number of campuses, on issues that extend beyond pay.