May 24, 2019

The story of a rogue fraternity and the university that couldn’t — or wouldn’t — rein it in.

Jeffrey A. Sachs, a lecturer in politics at Canada’s Acadia University, believes that an overblown fear is gripping administrators and commentators.

A controversial law giving Ball State University control of its city’s schools will soon be a year old. Can a state university confront long-term threats by focusing closest to home?

Taking stock of a vanishing world.

Senior faculty members assert their power by picking on people like me.

Creating arbitrary barriers to one’s success goes against America’s ideals.

Academics are used to doing lots of talking, but administration requires learning how to listen well.

Amy Storey was interim chief at Keuka since July of last year. Davidson’s new vice president for academic affairs is a professor of economics.

An author’s book, and his life, model how to convey kindness, care, and concern to college students.

Environmental law and the roots of psychiatric illnesses are among the other research areas supported by recent gifts to colleges.

Authors of a new book argue that too many students attend financially struggling colleges that are barely equipped to serve them well.

Among the topics of the latest books are undergraduate research in the first two years of college and adapting high-impact learning practices to online education.

Seamus Carey will step down as chief of Transylvania University to lead Iona. UCLA’s next chief academic officer is a dean at Princeton University.

The governor signed into law the country’s most restrictive abortion ban in May, spurring many students in the state to keep fighting for reproductive-health rights.

Students cite a long history of friction, while the professor’s defenders say the accusations are ginned up.

James Gallogly made no secret of his disapproval of parts of the previous president’s record, but says he wasn’t out to get him.

“Accepting responsibility means actually doing something, if you can, to spare the people you hurt from any more harm,” wrote Ian Samuel, formerly an associate professor in Indiana University’s law school.

Colleges are awarding more grants and scholarships as their sticker prices rise, according to an annual study. Here are five other findings about how institutions make and spend their money.

A sit-in and a four-day hunger strike by student activists led the college’s president to close all fraternities and sororities.

The filmmaker is co-chair of a committee to help the college raise $90 million over the next five years. He spoke with The Chronicle about why the struggling liberal-arts institution is worth preserving.

Jorge I. Domínguez, a former vice provost for international affairs, “engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct” over “nearly four decades,” according to a long-awaited university investigation. He was the subject of a 2018 Chronicle investigation.

The occupation of the university’s Garland Hall may be over, but the tensions that animated it are far from resolved.

The turmoil suggests a deep political rift that puts the Association for Israel Studies’ future into question.

The deal, slated to close in 2020, might bring better deals to students — that is, if it doesn’t give the publisher more clout in negotiations with colleges and distributors.

Most colleges require incoming students to be immunized, but in many states, they can seek nonmedical exemptions.