By Kellie Woodhouse. As student groups throughout the nation demand more diversity on their campuses, administrators have to consider many constituencies, including students (those protesting and those not) and professors with a range of views. Read more...

By Kellie Woodhouse. Trustees of comprehensive public universities don’t feel as though they have an adequate understanding of the finances at the institutions they lead, and many of them are concerned the boards they serve on merely rubber-stamp the proposals presented to them by administrators. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. With the advent of Google Scholar and other metrics for faculty productivity, advancing one’s career as a professor is much more of a numbers game than it used to be. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Disclose, disclose, disclose. That’s the general axiom for academics submitting papers to peer-reviewed journals, which require authors to sign conflict-of-interest statements regarding funding sources and other potential influences. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. New study suggests that when it comes to writing assignments and instruction, quality -- not quantity -- matters most. Read more...

By Josh Logue. One of the country's most idiosyncratic colleges has inspired an ambitious group of would-be founders, in Sitka, Alaska. Read more...

By Josh Logue. A study released Friday found significant proportions of community college students at a variety of institutions around the country reported high levels of food and housing insecurity. Read more...

By Josh Logue. Many student groups are changing their names to use "Latinx" instead of "Latino" and "Latina." Read more...

By Jake New. Northeastern University butts heads with local police over its decision to arm campus officers with semiautomatic rifles, but the practice is increasingly commonplace for college law enforcement agencies. Read more...

By Jake New. A growing number of colleges and universities in the past few years have adopted policies requiring all faculty members and other professional employees to report sexual misconduct to designated administrators. Though not required by law, the move is an outgrowth of U.S. Department of Education guidance on preventing and investigating campus sexual assault. Read more...