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Free Speech Is Challenged A GROWING NUMBER of colleges are overhauling their speech policies in response to controversial protests about the Israel-Hamas war. At December's congressional hearing on antisemitism on [...]

WHEN the Covid-19 pandemic began more than three years ago, the consensus was that the economic fallout for most colleges would be severe. Not long after, the federal government allocated [...]

IF THERE'S A PRIMARY VITAL SIGN for colleges, a crude point of reference for outside observers, like the pulse of an emergency-room patient, it's student enrollment. A college with thousands [...]

EXPLORE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. Experience new cultures. Enrich--and maybe even accelerate--your education. Every year, American college students do just that when they study abroad. The places they travel to span the [...]

MANY STUDENTS heading off to college for the first time this fall already have a college-level assignment to complete: Read a book over the summer, and come to campus prepared [...]

Colleges have already begun to announce which celebrities, business leaders, politicians, or other public figures will serve as commencement speakers, which means it won't be long before members of the [...]

COLLEGE ENDOWMENTS posted annual returns that were up from the year before, when a rocky stock market - battered by over-the-top inflation and the beginning of the war in Ukraine [...]

NEARLY EVERY public flagship enrolled a smaller share of freshmen from within their states in 2022 than they did two decades earlier, according to a Chronicle analysis of new data [...]

COLLEGES SPENT $97.8 billion on research and development in the 2022 fiscal year, up $8 billion from the year before, according to new data from the National Science Foundation. Federally [...]

SOME OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES in higher education in 2023--college access, leadership turnover, pressures on the business model, among others--will continue to play out in the new year. Here are [...]

THE WISDOM of seeking a degree in the humanities is often called into question, with administrators perennially seeking to cut majors, state officials targeting them, and professors debating how best [...]

THE LATEST ENROLLMENT DATA from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center provides an early sign of a long-awaited turnaround in college attendance: Undergraduate enrollment was up for the first time [...]

WHEN West Virginia University's administration proposed nixing the college's graduate programs in mathematics this summer, resistance to the recommendation cropped up almost instantly. Critics questioned the rationale behind shutting down [...]

GETTING ACCEPTED To COLLEGE is one thing. But for many students, one piece of correspondence that follows can carry even more weight: the financial-aid letter. With the cost of college [...]

THE INCREASINGLY assertive involvement of conservative lawmakers in the affairs of higher education has spurred concerns about 'brain drain'--talented scholars choosing to leave their states or not considering employment there. [...]

AT MOST COLLEGES the fall term is underway, and campuses are slipping into the familiar rhythms of a new academic year. For some institutions, the year ahead shows signs of [...]

UNDERGRADUATE ENROLLMENT for the spring of 2023 remained stable from a year ago, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Undergraduate enrollment fell 0.2 percent, or [...]

IN THE WAKE of pandemic-related enrollment losses, many colleges have been more focused than ever on recruiting and re-engaging a key student demographic: those who attended college but left without [...]

THE COLLEGE PRESIDENCY--which has seen a wave of turnovers in recent years --has long been recognized as a challenging job that can sometimes put those in the position on the [...]

HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS who are taking college courses for credit helped fuel an increase in community-college enrollment this spring--and brought attention to the outsize role dual-enrollment students have played in the [...]

OLIN COLLEGE of Engineering's identity is built on being different. There are no academic departments in the undergraduate-only college with about 350 students. Professors work under five-year renewable contracts with [...]

Lots of other colleges seemed to be doing it. The University of Denver wondered if it should, too. Post-tenure review had an air of rigor to it. No slackers here! [...]

THE SHARE of master's and doctoral degrees awarded in the humanities in 2020 hit a record low, according to a new report released in April by the Humanities Indicators project [...]

HIGHER EDUCATION'S hunger for conducting research is typically measured in terms of grant dollars. Another way to look at the sector's deep investment in the research enterprise is by looking [...]

WHEN Finlandia University announced early this month that it would shut down at the end of the academic year, the reasons the college gave echoed those of other small, less-selective [...]

A VOLATILE STOCK MARKET during the last half of the 2022 fiscal year put a sharp dent in the returns and market value of college endowments. According to the annual [...]

UNDERGRADUATE ENROLLMENT has stabilized, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, which provide a final tally on enrollment for the fall of 2022. It marks a [...]

ADMISSIONS OFFICERS at North Carolina A&T State University sifted through 6,216 applications to build its fall-2011 entering class. A decade later, according to federal data, the institution's pool of first-time [...]

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS spent $89.9 billion on research and development in the 2021 fiscal year, up 4 percent from the year before. Nearly all of the $3.4-billion increase in research spending [...]

WHEN BILLY C. Hawkins became president of Talladega College in January 2008, enrollment was just under 300 students after years of decline. To make matters worse, the historically black institution's [...]

FOR SCHOLARS, the phrase 'publish or perish' has become an ironclad rule of academic career development. Without a sufficient number of publications in the right kinds of journals, tenure and [...]

IN 2011, Lauren Kay Robel had to make a critical career-related decision: Did she want to serve as Indiana University at Bloomington's interim provost? After almost a decade as dean [...]

The start of the fall semester brings students and faculty members at residential colleges back to the classroom, and administrators back to their offices. But the modern university is much [...]

A growing number of colleges have created programs to cultivate institutional leaders, in most cases from among faculty ranks. Ideally such programs help demystify the path to academic leadership and [...]

FOR YEARS, many Pennsylvania colleges have been sounding the alarm about their future. Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education, commonly known as Passhe, recently consolidated six of its campuses into [...]

THE NUMBER OF DOCTORATES awarded by American universities fell 5.4 percent in 2021, according to the latest Survey of Earned Doctorates, making it the steepest decline in Ph.D. production in [...]

EVEN BEFORE the pandemic hit, food and housing insecurity were an issue for college students, and since 2020, some institutions have stepped up efforts to provide for students' basic needs. [...]

WHILE college enrollment was on the decline well before the pandemic, drops in recent years have caused particular concern. A new study sheds light on why a crucial pipeline of [...]

FOR YEARS, most students have placed a premium on the job-related benefits of going to college. The share of students who said getting a better job was a 'very important [...]

THE FALL SEMESTER is underway at most colleges, with campuses seeking a return to normal as institutions operate with fewer pandemic restrictions in place. But what does 'normal' look like [...]

THE SIZE of higher education's work force has been largely restored to what it was before the pandemic began, but it hasn't been clear exactly which positions have been filled, [...]

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES have various ways to compare themselves to similar institutions, and one method is through their peer lists. Each year, colleges can select their peer institutions when reporting [...]

THROUGHOUT the many reports of declining enrollment during the pandemic, graduate education was an unexpected bright spot. Federal data show that much of the growth in graduate enrollments came from [...]

LIKE EVERY OTHER INDUSTRY right now, higher education is grappling with the effects of raging inflation, tempering much of the other news, largely good, about colleges' finances. While college endowments [...]

COLLEGE PRESIDENTS and vice presidents are always juggling multiple priorities. But a report released in the fall of 2021 says that one issue--the potential for student protests to erupt on [...]

THE RACE AND ETHNICITY DATA from the 2020 Census revealed a demographic milestone that has been years in the making: The share of white people in the United States fell [...]

IN THE 2020 FISCAL YEAR, the Johns Hopkins University spent more on research and development than any other American higher-education institution did, concluding a decade in which research spending at [...]

AS THE FALL TERM APPROACHES, faculty members are finalizing which course materials--books or articles and the ways to find them--to include in their syllabi. To do so, professors sort through [...]

A RECENT SURVEY of people's attitudes on student-loan forgiveness revealed overwhelming support for something that's often seen as an even deeper issue: making college more affordable. Eighty-two percent of the [...]

ITS THAT SEASON when scholars are busy preparing to enter the academic job market--a path that has long been unpredictable for new Ph.D. recipients, especially those who want to be [...]