Students increasingly see themselves as customers and college as a means to an end. Faculty members are wrestling with the consequences.

Many struggle to complete coursework independently. How can professors adjust?

Do young people misunderstand everyday stress?

Living in the university’s blind spots.

Asian students will now compose almost half the freshman class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. White enrollment was not affected.

The Office for Civil Rights has dinged colleges in recent months for not appropriately addressing antisemitism.

Pro-Palestinian student activists plan to meet colleges’ enhanced restrictions on free expression with an equal and opposite force.

Its decision to allow academic boycotts betrays its values.

Cary Nelson’s recent attack on the organization misses the mark.

Predictions and hopes for the future of Ph.D. training.

With temporary appointments on the rise, how can higher ed position short-term administrators to succeed?