June 7, 2019

An international science partnership between the United States and China that has grown stronger over 40 years suddenly seems to be decaying.

The University of California at Los Angeles questioned Rick Singer, who orchestrated a vast criminal admissions scheme, in 2014. The report, published here for the first time, presages the pay-for-play mentality that federal prosecutors say inspired widespread corruption in college admissions.

It plays on our vanity to reduce research to a popularity contest.

Does scholarly publishing have a sustainable future?

Experts once structured and categorized knowledge. Now search engines do that task. The result? Anarchy.

Is Quillette an island of sanity — or reactionary conservatism for the Ph.D. set?

A debate over “privilege” threatens to overshadow the real problem.

Harking back to an era of “peak English” betrays marginalized scholars.

It recently survived a mortal blow, but for the past 30 years, it has faced death by a thousand cuts.

College leaders would be wrong to think the pending NLRB ruling should be celebrated.

Compiling a tenure file forces you to confront who you are and what you’ve done, and to reimagine who you want to become.

Peer review is an inherently imperfect process, but here are some steps that would make it better.

Tennessee’s new leader will come from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Schreiner’s next provost is leaving a post as vice president for university mission.

The colleges with the most fellows over the past 42 years awarded an estimated 1 percent to 22 percent of their degrees in the humanities in 2016-17.

Teach less, teach better, and get your head out of your discipline, urges a seasoned public-policy professor.

The president of Stony Brook University will become Michigan State’s first permanent leader since January 2018.

The additions raise troubling questions about students’ borrowing decisions and about colleges’ role in pursuing them.

The College Board’s Environmental Context Dashboard has caused a lot of confusion. Now the organization is trying to explain its new measure of applicants’ disadvantage.

Without a case pending, the National Labor Relations Board has announced its intent to determine the employment status of graduate students.

The latest are at Emory University, which investigated the professors following a warning from the National Institutes of Health about foreign influence on American research.

Judy L. Genshaft’s gift, one of the largest from a president to her institution, will help construct an honors-college building in her name.

The students are attending college in greater numbers than they were two decades ago, but they’re more likely to attend less-selective institutions, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.

Higher-ed experts weren’t surprised at troubling shortfalls in the Northeast. But they disagreed about what the trend meant — and how colleges should respond.

The private institutions, in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions, have rarely, if ever, had to worry about filling their classes.

The billionaire Robert Smith makes a stunning announcement at Morehouse College.

The city created a voluntary program to collect revenue from its largest tax-exempt institutions, like Harvard and Boston Universities. But as contributions fall off, activists demand that the city get tougher.

Dozens of colleges are using a new tool that measures students’ socioeconomic disadvantages. It’s an attempt to quantify the challenges many applicants encounter.