Budget-conscious, job-focused, and maybe already in your backyard.

A major investment in undergraduate support, close attention to data, and a shift in the way it allocates resources gave the University of Rhode Island a lot to celebrate.

If students are too afraid to express their opinions, is real learning taking place?

How should we “count” public writing and service for tenure and promotion?

Even as the overall numbers of history and English majors dropped, some colleges were graduating hundreds of majors in those fields.

Doug Bauder, who just retired from Indiana University at Bloomington, talks about a changed climate in the campus’s home state. “Stop thinking Mike Pence, and start thinking Pete Buttigieg.”

Kenneth Daly, an energy executive, will take the helm at St. Thomas Aquinas. Cornell College has named a new vice president for academic affairs.

The woman who complained to the campus police about a black student sleeping in a dormitory common room says in an essay that she was “cybermobbed and defamed” as a result of the episode.

The United States hasn’t come close to achieving President Obama’s target of leading the world in college attainment by 2020. But his challenge inspired a nationwide movement that shows no sign of slowing.

State appropriations to the sector rose by 5 percent over the last year, according to an annual survey.

A promotional video produced in September by the homecoming committee at the University of Wisconsin at Madison drew ire for not featuring students of color, but this isn’t the first time the flagship has faced a diversity-related snafu.

The flagship university called it “objectively offensive” for a lecturer of accounting to screen an extra-credit parody project. Several students left the class to protest the administration’s decision.

After being arrested while doing research for his history dissertation, Xiyue Wang relied on a network of friends, colleagues, and strangers to support him — and help him continue his studies.

ProPublica has assembled the first state-by-state database of professors’ outside income and employment. But it’s far from complete.

Charles Thomas was nearing the end of his senior year when he was shot during a “manic and delusional” episode in the spring of 2018.

Finances are a major stressor for students and an obstacle to college completion and success. So colleges are stepping in.