July 19, 2019

Colleges are under pressure to be more efficient — and some have been recognized for making strides. But they probably won’t brag about it.

Facing a Friday deadline, state legislators are divided over the governor’s vetoes of higher-ed funds. A vote on Wednesday failed to override the vetoes. The university’s leaders and its accreditor warn the cuts could have devastating consequences.

Nondisparagement agreements and an unwillingness to confront underlying problems force colleges to pull out the checkbook to smooth rough departures, experts say.

State university systems have historically avoided getting dragged into politicized battles. No more.

When you become an administrator, you have to force yourself to think of time — everybody’s, not just your own — with a hint of urgency.

If college governing boards wanted to, they could hold down tuition costs and open the doors to more low-income students, says a new book.

In her new book, Anne Gardiner Perkins tells the stories of the first women admitted to Yale.

At hundreds of colleges, revenue from tuition and fees more than covers the costs of instruction. But that’s not the case at many other institutions.

Mothers doing field research, parents going to college, and the pressures on public colleges to serve the economy are among the latest topics.

A satirical novel about an English department seems all too familiar to an associate professor in that often-satirized discipline.

Here’s where the rubber meets the road: Not being able to access newly published scholarship may be a nuisance for California’s faculty and students.

The University of Chicago expects a record number of students this fall from underrepresented backgrounds, including increases in black and Hispanic applicants and more first-generation and low-income students.

The drama this week in Alaska’s statehouse over vast proposed cuts in higher-ed funding echoes themes from across the nation: shifting financial burdens, weak enrollment numbers, increasing struggles for would-be students, and threats of campus closures.

NCAA student-athletes cannot profit from their own image, name, or likeness. The Fair Pay to Play Act seeks to change that.

The university declined to comment on whether it plans to return any of the donations given by Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged on Saturday with sex trafficking.

In explaining historic cuts, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Alaska’s universities can’t be “all things for all people.” He’s only the latest to use that message.

Hundreds of academics have signed an open letter calling the museum’s condemnation of Holocaust comparisons “a radical position that is far removed from mainstream scholarship.”

Campuses are increasingly outsourcing child care to for-profit companies, triggering protests from student and faculty parents. The issue has led administrators across the country to ask: Is the university best suited to provide these services, and is it worth the investment?

The average wait for a first-time appointment among all college counseling centers is about seven business days, according to a report by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors. On many campuses, the path to a prescription is simpler.

Worried about defamation suits and bad publicity, colleges often keep findings under wraps, but they’re facing pressure to be more transparent.