Harvey Mudd’s freshmen are clever with machines, but dealing with fellow human beings requires different skills.

Students aren’t showing up. And it’s only going to get worse.

Five views on the great enrollment crash.

How a ruthless demand for austerity bleeds public universities dry.

How a network of Catholic intellectuals is making the case against liberalism.

Probing the limits of academic freedom.

Fewer than a fifth of college presidents are people of color. Ajay Nair, president of Arcadia University, explains why that’s unacceptable, and how he’s diversifying the leadership ranks at his own institution.

Four public doctoral universities paid their assistant professors an average adjusted nine-month salary of more than $100,000.

The Harvard case has highlighted our fatigue over being muted as racial pawns.

Kentucky Wesleyan’s next president now leads Dickinson State University. A dean has been appointed chief academic officer at the Health Sciences Center.

The university’s race-conscious admissions process does not discriminate against Asian American students, Judge Allison Burroughs ruled.

The challenge, from Students for Fair Admissions, may still end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Coercive citation has drawn increased attention in recent years. Last month two researchers at the Dutch publishing giant Elsevier published a study that examined the citation patterns of nearly 55,000 reviewers for its journals.

The universities have been ordered to act immediately to clarify leadership roles and responsibilities.

The California governor signed the bill into law on the HBO show of one of its most vocal proponents: the professional basketball player LeBron James.

Almost 70 percent of HBCU students achieve what the researchers describe as incomes that are middle class or higher.

Under pressure from the Justice Department, admissions officials have changed the ethics code that governs the recruitment process. Now many of them expect bidding wars and poaching of students.

Wayne State University experiments with giving students small credits toward their bill when they take actions, like attending a tutoring session or going to a campus event, that are associated with retention.

Brown University said this week it would redirect money it had received from a Sackler foundation to nonprofit groups fighting the opioid epidemic. Other universities have said they no longer accept gifts from the Sackler family.

Undergraduate enrollment has declined by more than 40 percent since 2011. And it’s not only because of a high-profile sexual-assault scandal.