By Rick Seltzer. Plans to spend as much as $6 million to convert a city street into a pedestrian promenade through Syracuse University’s campus have reopened rifts over faculty involvement, spending priorities and town-gown separation less than three years into a new chancellor’s term. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Some 30 percent of female medical academics have experienced sexual harassment on the job, compared to 4 percent of their male counterparts, according to a new research letter in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. At Dartmouth, an Asian-American professor receives unanimous English department backing and is rejected at higher levels. The same happened to a black historian at the college. Many see a disturbing pattern. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. San Francisco State University has reached an agreement with its embattled College of Ethnic Studies. The college, the only one of its kind in the country, has said it is chronically underfunded, to the point that it can barely sustain operations beyond paying full-time personnel. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Scholars at conference on whether liberal arts need saving focus on evolving threats, including diminishing attention spans, mounting consumerism and a desire by administrators to quantify everything. Read more...