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SOME DEVELOPMENTS emerging in various areas of higher education--admissions, business, finances, research--are not yet widespread. But the pandemic, and with it a growing awareness of America's class divide, has pushed [...]

IT'S NOT just three professors. An effort by the University of Florida to deny professors the ability to testify in litigation against the state extends beyond the previously known political-science [...]

IT'S A QUARTER PAST NOON on a Wednesday at a cafeteria at Indiana University at Bloomington, and if you want a burger in the next hour, you're probably out of [...]

TALK TO PEOPLE who work in higher education right now, and you'll quickly find someone ready for a change. There's the assistant director of student diversity at the University of [...]

'WE'RE HERE NOW' JEFF AYISIRE woke before sunrise on March 1 with tears in his eyes. He'd had a dream. In the dream, his younger sister was telling him he [...]

WELL BEFORE COVID-19, Ed Walton, a top finance official at the University of South Carolina, would convene colleagues to plan for the future. Pressured by lower state appropriations, the university [...]

THE NEW PRESIDENT'S Jeep Cherokee, with its out-of-state tags, wasn't in its usual campus parking spot. It took Kengie Bass several days to notice. At first, the dean of the [...]

IT WAS A LONG TIME COMING; 140 years, in fact. When Republicans seized control of both chambers of North Carolina's General Assembly, in 2010, for the first time in more [...]

THERE'S A STORY the president of Claremont McKenna College used to tell to describe what makes his college special. It goes like this: A prospective student chatted with her host [...]

SEATTLE JOHN MCMASTERS didn't mince words. It was 1991, and the principal Boeing engineer had become frustrated by the company's new hires. When they worked in teams, these recent college [...]

THE EMAIL sparked panic. 'Effective immediately, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is temporarily halting the appointment of visiting scientists,' wrote a medical-school administrator to the neurology department last fall. [...]

AUSTIN, TEX. GREGORY L. Fenves had heard the calls for change, and he pledged to act. Standing before a quiet auditorium in the fall of 2016, the University of Texas [...]

DEBATE OVER the future of scholarly publishing felt remote to Kathryn M. Jones, an associate professor of biology at Florida State University--that is, until she attended a Faculty Senate meeting [...]

THE SEMINAR slogged into its third and final hour, and Julia M. York's mind churned. The meetings were designed to help new graduate students at the University of Texas at [...]

CAMPUSES ARE REVERSING their fall reopening plans as Covid-19 case counts surge nationwide. Coming after months of expressed optimism about the possibility of resuming in-person classes, the announcements signal a [...]

FOR WILLIAM A. SMITH, 1991 brought a watershed moment. The first edition of The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education--which chronicled the consequences of campuses' failures of inclusion--was published. To [...]

CHRIS CAPLINGER had left his phone outside his bedroom that night in October, so it was only when he awoke early the next morning that he saw the text. It [...]

THE FIRST in her family to attend college, Regina Seanez faced decisions she didn't expect. One of them: what to do about textbooks. In her first semester at Austin Community [...]

YALE UNIVERSITY, the University of Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth College each pledged to increase oversight of athletics recruiting in light of an elaborate bribery scheme in college admissions that brought the [...]

FOR MONTHS, colleges have weighed the risks and rewards of bringing students back to campuses disrupted by Covid-19. Now they're considering what to do about their employees. Committees at colleges [...]

TEXAS SOUTHERN University's regents last year gave themselves the unusual power to fire any and all campus employees, a move that flouts best-practices recommendations on higher-education governance and may raise [...]

CAMPUSES ARE POLITICAL SPACES. For proof, look to the Democratic primaries for the 2020 presidential election. At universities, candidates have rallied undergraduates, debated policy, and taken selfies, aiming to break [...]

A HIGHLY regulated semester is underway for unvaccinated college students and employees. Last fall, before the Covid-19 vaccines were widely available, many campuses mandated masks, required regular or random testing, [...]

LAWYERS representing Nikole Hannah-Jones told state leaders in North Carolina late last month that they were 'evaluating all available legal recourse' against the University of North Carolina and its board [...]

THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT announced cuts in December in its College of Arts and Sciences, arguing that a structural budget deficit exacerbated by the pandemic made it necessary to eliminate [...]

THE NATION'S highest court said last month that it would take up a First Amendment clash about college governance, evaluating whether a public-college board had the grounds to censure one [...]

WHEN a state lawmaker asked the University System of Georgia about how it teaches 'oppression' and 'privilege,' it set off searches through course catalogs and syllabi, conversations with deans, department [...]

BLOCKING PROFESSORS from teaching social-justice issues. Asking universities how they talk about privilege. Analyzing students' freedom of expression through regular reports. Meet the new campus-speech issues emerging in Republican-led statehouses [...]

COLLEGE PRESIDENTS want to open their campuses in the fall, but they know that lawsuits could follow no matter their course of action, a group of college and university leaders [...]

THE CORONAVIRUS'S FINANCIAL TOLL may jeopardize colleges' longstanding campaigns to bolster research, expand operations, am improve national prestige. The pursuit of that vision is a well-trodden path. Colleges that set [...]

CALLING for more reporting of foreign gifts than is widely practiced, the U.S. Department of Education sent letters to Harvard and Yale Universities last month that signaled a ratcheting up [...]

A STUDENT'S PROGRAMMING code just won't run. It's getting late, and the assignment is due in just a few hours. There are a million other things to do. The specter [...]

IT WASN'T just Jeffrey Epstein and Operation Varsity Blues. Recent scandals at other institutions helped spur Brown University to share more information on its policies, but the campus's president says [...]

THE IMPACT of the University of California system's decision in February to walk away from negotiations with Elsevier over journal subscriptions has rippled out to Pittsburgh, where Carnegie Mellon University's [...]

Harvard Is an outlier when it comes to most issues in higher education, with its $40-billion endowment, buffer from state budget politics, and end-of-year operating surplus nearing $300 million. But [...]

WAYNE STATE University's embattled president sat in his office last Wednesday, but whether he still has a job depends on whom you ask. A hurried attempt last week to fire [...]

CAMPUS LIBRARIES are anticipating a new era--a codependent one. Librarians at universities in the Big Ten athletic conference wrote recently that they would work toward managing their separate collections 'as [...]

You CAN find a CliffsNotes on hot-button campus issues in a perhaps unexpected package: California's newest laws. Landmark higher-education laws enacted by the state this year ran the gamut. Pay [...]

ELSEVIER began shutting off access to certain research articles for the sprawling University of California system last week, nearly five months after negotiations toward a subscription contract ceased. California left [...]

IN 1992 the University of Alaska at Fairbanks assembled a group to chart a strategic plan as the new century approached. Members heard the same advice over and over again: [...]

IN the heat of an escalating trade war, China signaled in early June that it may start to steer its people away from a key American export: higher education. The [...]

In this new gig, a college president will navigate familiar territory: Moving a campus forward after previously signed contracts sparked outrage. Angel Cabrera, George Mason University's president, has been named [...]

Two faculty members are no longer employed by Emory University after an investigation found that they had not properly disclosed their research relationship with China, university officials said. The announcement, [...]

MANY colleges have boards and initiatives that focus on town-gown relations and research--say, a public-service graduation requirement or a commitment to purchase and hire from neighborhoods around the campus. But [...]

RESEARCH librarians are giving notice: The pressures that led the University of California system to cut the cord with Elsevier aren't foreign to their campuses. After the UC system announced [...]

Two STUDENTS at Stanford University are suing the elite colleges named in the still-unfolding admissions-bribery scandal, saying the allegations show that the applications of students who played by the rules [...]

THE University of California system's break with the publishing giant Elsevier, announced last month, sent a clear message to research universities across the country: If your institution wants to follow [...]

AS MORE scholars publish in less-recognized open-access journals, the search is on for other ways to measure the impact of their research. One potential measure of reach is in online [...]