In its efforts to “aggressively influence” colleges, the company succeeded beyond its wildest dreams.

Innovation is now a currency of its own, a standard by which institutions are judged and even ranked. Experts offer three guiding principles for how to make it work.

Colleges are tracking them with greater sophistication, but the students don’t seem to care. Should you?

Even if students don’t particularly care that their data may be tracked, colleges that go down this path must do so carefully. “The technology moves quicker than the legislation or the policy side that is always playing catch-up,” says Brian Kelly, director of cybersecurity for Educause, a…

Today’s traditional-age students are digital natives. But that doesn’t mean they have the digital skills they’ll need to thrive at work and beyond.

Colleges are wrestling with a host of issues as they seek to lower costs and widen access, allow professors to choose their own classroom materials, and maintain quality.

We can’t expect technologists alone to foresee the opportunities and face challenges.

Students should be taught about the complex relationships of science, technology, innovation, policy, and society.

The technology emphasizes that students are more than transcripts and test scores.

Data literacy, from top to bottom at an institution, is critical to improving student success.

Just because you can use something doesn’t mean you should.

Protecting the rights of foreign students and scholars is in the larger national interest.

Hint for candidates: Why should we seriously consider you when you haven’t seriously considered us?

Dwight McBride, Emory University’s provost, will lead New School. Lincoln Land’s new vice president for administrative services came from another college in Illinois.

Public institutions tend to find online students closer to their campuses, while many private nonprofit colleges cast a wider net.

Colleges with historic ties to slavery are creating panels and, in one case, a new position devoted to institutional history.

The University of Connecticut says it will redirect some money it received from a family foundation of the opioid manufacturer. Faculty members are wrestling with the moral calculus.

The University of Mississippi’s new chancellor used to serve as commissioner of the state’s Institutions of Higher Learning.

“You are not entering that plane, period,” a customs official told him. Then he took out a pen and wrote “cancelled” in capital letters and drew a line through his visa.

The university landed on its new leader through a hastily improvised process. One expert said such moves have become more common as governing boards grow emboldened.

Vote follows a meeting with the university’s accreditor, who says the chain of command needs to be clear.

Zipporah Osei was presented with the 2019 David W. Miller Award for Young Journalists.

The reach into the admissions world of training to avoid implicit bias has been limited, and some question how it could be carried out.

After Brock Turner sexually assaulted her, in 2015, Miller wrote a searing victim-impact statement as “Emily Doe” that went viral. In her new memoir, in which she speaks publicly for the first time, she has harsh words for the university.

Two pieces of macabre mythology have an unstoppable appeal on campuses nationwide. But they’re not true.

The Jordan Porco Foundation has helped organize hundreds of Fresh Check Days on campuses in 42 states.