By W. Robert Connor. A friend who teaches classics at a fine liberal arts college told me that she had met the president of the institution walking across campus. He greeted her, and they chatted for a few seconds. Read more...

By Paula M. Krebs. Several dozen faculty members, administrators, employers, and others recently came together to discuss how to measure student success in the humanities. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. In 2013, the jobs website CareerCast named university professor the No. 1 least stressful job, unleashing a torrent of criticism that only grew after Forbes picked up the ranking. Professors -- those with tenure and without -- said the study ignored the changing dynamics of the university, namely the increasingly administrative nature of academic work, the emerging student-as-customer model, unrealistic research expectations and 24-7 contact with colleagues and students via email. Non-tenure-track professors also pointed out that they in many cases lack all job security.
CareerCast evidently learned something from the controversy -- its 2016 least stressful jobs list specifies tenured professor, at No. 3 -- but old notions about what it is to be a professor die hard. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Adjunct union protests working conditions and stalled contract negotiations with fake job pamphlet. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. A few dozen members of the coalition of leading colleges that plans to reform college admissions with a new application system this summer don't plan to use it for the next year. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. Small community colleges consider study abroad programs to retain students and offer something different. Read more...

By Josh Logue. Race is still a prominent issue in this semester's rallies and sit-ins, but students are also pushing issues related to campus employees, foreign policy, state laws on sexual orientation and more -- and linking the various topics. Read more...

By Josh Logue. Cadre of esteemed mathematicians gain traction in their campaign to remake the college curriculum in the discipline. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. From ABD to P&T, higher education has its own language (and we’re not even talking about discipline-specific jargon or academese). Most Ph.D. hopefuls become fluent via the immersion method (aka graduate school), but what if there was a dictionary of sorts to help out along the way? Now there is. The PhDictionary: A Glossary of Things You Don’t Know (but Should) About Doctoral and Faculty Life (University of Chicago Press) decodes -- in alphabetical order -- 149 key terms for academics. Read more...