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Pre-internet, libraries could measure their impact by counting how many books they circulated. Now their value is harder to quantify. CHICAGO When DePaul University opened its new library in 1992, [...]

SEVERAL YEARS ago, Texas was feeling the pinch of a nationwide deficit. It ranked third among states in the number of unfilled cybersecurity jobs. As a public flagship with strong [...]

'Topics in Mathematics for the Liberal Arts,' a course at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University, is representative of a nationwide effort to make undergraduate math more relevant and [...]

FULLERTON, CALIF. WHEN Sheila Samperio told her parents about an unusual course that included a two-week trip to Puerto Rico, they stared at her blankly. The concept of study abroad [...]

WHEN David Oxtoby said in a 2011 speech that 'facts matter,' the president of Pomona College could not have known that 'post-truth' would be the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the [...]

At Purdue University, librarians, instructional designers, and faculty members are working together to incorporate the concept of information literacy across the curriculum. In the past few years they have revised [...]

Jay Barth has been teaching a course on political parties and elections since 1994. Most election years, the energy level of the class died down after the November vote. Last [...]

WHEN Elizabeth A. Bennion asked students in her political-controversies course to discuss gun control, the conversation could have dissolved into fractious debate. Her class included strong supporters and staunch opponents [...]

WHEN a Stanford University report in November proclaimed that many students could not detect fake or misleading information online, the findings caused a stir. From January 2015 to June 2016, [...]

IN 2007, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum graduated with a law degree from Cornell University, a master's in public health from the Johns Hopkins University, and about $145,000 in student-loan debt from [...]

WHEN A student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison was accused last month of assaulting at least a half-dozen women, an idea resurfaced that has been embedded in the [...]

WHEN RACHEL NELSON, a biochemistry major at Hamline University, became a resident assistant in August 2014, she went through training on Title IX, the federal gender-discrimination law. As an RA, [...]