Large introductory courses are notorious for being tedious, confusing, and even harmful. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor is betting it can change all that.

This regional gathering attracts teenagers from small-town high schools that few admissions officers ever visit. Here’s how it changed one student’s perspective on college.

Stanley Fish is skeptical of free speech, and dismayed by the ubiquity of Subarus.

When applying for grant money is a ritual of rejection.

Identity, stereotypes, and the fraying of the college experience.

The proposals floated by presidential candidates are nonsensical. There’s a better way.

She rescinded her letters of recommendation.

Overhauling developmental education will require faculty buy-in and wraparound supports, reformers say.

Federal data show startling racial disparities even after those plans became available.

Lonnie Burnett has been interim chief executive at Mobile since May. Rhodes College’s new provost comes from Virginia Commonwealth University.

The University of North Dakota’s next chief executive is a retired dean from the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Elisabeth Bik quit her day job as a microbiologist to search for research misconduct.

Presidents of universities in the United States’ territories face challenges similar to those encountered by their mainland counterparts.

Once-robust fields are being broken up and stripped for parts.

The field has bought into the notion that “useful” and “moneymaking” are synonymous. They’re not.

The total number of new tenure-track hires was up nearly 5 percent from the previous year at four-year public institutions.

Can a new gen-ed curriculum in the liberal arts boost undergraduate and graduate education at the same time?

The university system has ensured that the divisive Confederate monument won’t return to its Chapel Hill campus. But its method of doing so is “insane,” said one professor.

The historically black college nearly lost its accreditation. Instead, the federal and state government and an accreditor have taken big steps to keep it open.

Don’t dismiss the state as a mere outlier: It’s at the leading edge of a decline in students that is looming over other parts of the country.

Three takeaways from the sale of the historic Iowa College for the Blind, expected this month.

Students have for years turned to crowdfunding to help with tuition and study-abroad costs. Now the strategy’s being used to try to save scholars’ jobs.

Harvard denied tenure to Lorgia García-Peña, a Latina/o-studies professor, sparking outrage from students and scholars who say ethnic studies aren’t valued.

NextGen will allow borrowers to pay off their student loans through a website and will give advice on lending options. But critics say it’s unlikely to absolve the department of its failure to oversee servicers.

Almost all of the undocumented immigrants who enrolled in the federal agency’s fake university are from India, and most of those arrested have been granted “voluntary departure,” according to a newspaper’s report.