Colleges claim to use tainted money for noble ends. Does anyone believe them?

Eight hundred pages of documents provided to an activist group show the law school’s yearslong relationship with a supporter of climate-change skeptics.

What’s worse than a decade of financial turmoil? Not learning anything from it.

It would go a long way toward improving higher education’s public perception.

Kevin M. Guskiewicz was named on Friday to the job permanently after 10 months as the interim head. His former faculty colleagues have faulted his response to the controversial deal over Silent Sam.

The Education Department’s emphasis on “transparency” over regulation may be a losing political strategy.

After years of limbo and loss, Larycia Hawkins found a position at a university that, she says, has embraced her.

Leadership searches can be a moment for a university to come together around a shared vision for the future. But their increasingly tight management stirs anxiety and uncertainty.

The disclosures show a willingness to accommodate a public increasingly skeptical of higher education.

The University of Iowa offers an interesting example.

A for-profit college’s closure led to an idea in Dallas: Let students control their own records using the technology behind cryptocurrencies. Several groups are exploring blockchain’s academic potential on parallel tracks.

Oregon State’s next president, F. King Alexander, comes from Louisana State University.