Empty classrooms and a shuttered welcome center are among the signs of the University of Washington’s response to the coronavirus.

Students do the hard work of rectifying racism in the academy. Administrators take the credit.

“Social mobility” is the talk of the sector. But are college leaders, policy makers, and funders pulling the right levers?

Let’s determine what our students actually learn online.

Offered a “graceful exit” and time to search for a new leadership job, a former dean made a different choice and wonders about the fallout.

Sweeping predictions are dicey, especially considering that higher ed hasn’t even begun to feel the full impact of the coronavirus crisis, or the financial havoc that will follow in its wake.

The outbreak has unleashed a rash of phone calls and emails from anxious families.

Lori S. White will be the first woman and the first person of color to serve as president of DePauw.

ACE and SXSW could suffer enormous financial losses after nixing their signature events; other higher-ed groups are still waiting to decide.

The transition to remote teaching involves a lot more than flipping a switch.

There are the logistics, like getting food to quarantined residential students, and then there’s the question of how to ensure people keep to quarantines that aren’t legally mandated.

For American colleges at the height of the admissions season, the spreading illness is forcing them to work on parallel tracks. On one, it’s business as usual. On the other, they are planning for a myriad of contingencies.

A job ad stirs up long-simmering concerns that the humanities get no respect.

About two-thirds fell short of net-revenue targets, too. Some institutions have been finding ways to cushion the blow.