By Ashley A. Smith. New report from Complete College America gives a first look at how pairing additional resources with introductory college courses can help students who need remediation. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. At a time of intense pressure on academic leaders, provosts are worried about the future of liberal arts education -- not just at liberal arts colleges, but at all institutions that provide general education to students. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Study links certain traits of undergraduate education to success in life: meaningful interaction with professors, studying a variety of fields outside the major and having classroom talks that go to issues of ethics and life. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. New study suggests the SAT may over- or underpredict first-year college grades of hundreds of thousands of students. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Students waste about one-fifth of class time on laptops, smartphones and tablets, even though they admit such behavior can harm their grades, a new report found. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. A group of liberal arts colleges and research universities are exploring how they could share expertise and services through a Digital Liberal Arts Exchange, easing the burden on colleges to be jacks-of-all-trades and allowing them to specialize in what they do best. Read more...

By Ellen Wexler. When faculty members and alumni are as attached to their program as they are to their university, institutional politics get personal. Read more...

By Ellen Wexler. A new report shows a slow but steady increase in higher education funding as states recover from the recession. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Wheaton College in Illinois can try to fire the associate professor of political science it put on leave for saying that Christians and Muslims worship the “same God.” But the faculty won't back its decision. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Academic work is often solitary, but succeeding in the professoriate arguably requires social acumen. So is that why gay men and women are disproportionately represented among academics? A new study investigating the phenomenon of “occupational segregation” argues that certain jobs -- including that of professor -- are particularly appealing to gay men and lesbians for these reasons. Read more...