Alternative approaches can help shift students’ attention from how they did to what they learned.

Barbara K. Mistick has some hard-earned wisdom for the presidents of small colleges and their trustees.

Forty percent of students don’t graduate. No one is held accountable. No one is fired. That must change.

How the misadventures of Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson shaped anthropology.

Whose side are you on?

Anthony Kronman on the “aristocratic ethos” in higher education.

It’s not just colleges founded before the Civil War that need to confront their shameful pasts.

The biggest risk to a campus, a candidate, and a search firm is not a breach of confidentiality in the hiring process, but rather, a failed presidency owing to a bad fit.

The chief executive of a private-equity firm gave the University of Oxford $188 million for the humanities.

Students have bought and sold textbooks online since the early days of the internet. Now, student governments are formalizing that resale market — just as companies like Pearson are switching to digital.

The settlement applies to Division I men’s and women’s basketball and Football Bowl Subdivision players who competed from 2010 to 2017 — 53,748 athletes in total.

Supporters say the legislation reminds public colleges of their First Amendment obligations.

Two students at Morehouse College said last week that a staff member had sexually harassed and assaulted them. It’s the most recent in a string of sexual-misconduct cases Morehouse has been accused of mishandling.

They call it sad but say they needed to take the step given the state’s budget crisis.

The election of Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr. angered students, faculty members, and some board members, who believe the trustees who supported Caslen did so in response to pressure from Gov. Henry McMaster.

An accreditor says Cincinnati Christian’s president has put the interests of a bank ahead of those of the deeply indebted institution.

Other politicians have appeared at the North Carolina institution in the past. Under the First Amendment, a free-speech expert says, it couldn’t say no to the president.

The digital-first strategy hopes to create more reliable revenue streams and standardize textbook editions. But some observers worry that the change will do little to make materials more affordable for students.

The Rev. Brian Friedrich, chief executive at Concordia University, Nebraska, will lead the St. Paul institution.

George Washington University announced last week it would slash its undergraduate enrollment by 20 percent over five years.

South Carolina’s next leader is Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr., former superintendent and president of the United States Military Academy at West Point.