By Vimal Patel. For Ksenia Krylova, the years she has spent earning her Ph.D. have been largely worry free, at least when it comes to money. More...

By Vimal Patel. When Sydney Glassman started her Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California here, she was sure she wanted to be a professor. But many factors, she says, make her less certain of that today. More...

By Vimal Patel. After taking an academic risk to use an alternative form for his dissertation — a comic book about visual thinking — he successfully defended it in 2014 and earned his doctorate in interdisciplinary. More...

By Vimal Patel. Due in part to a weakening academic job market, some colleges and higher-education groups are scrambling to collect data on what sorts of jobs Ph.D.’s are getting. The American Historical Association recently pinpointed where 2,500 history Ph.D. More...

By Vimal Patel. What one cohort of black female Ph.D.s in philosophy says about the challenges facing academe as it tries to be more inclusive. More...

By Peter Schmidt. Systematically providing selective colleges with detailed information about applicants’ high-school backgrounds could significantly raise the admission rates of low-income students, a new study concludes. More...

By Beckie Supiano. They’ve captured the imaginations of a small number of companies, think-tank scholars, and members of Congress. But until recently, income-share agreements hardly seemed poised to go mainstream in the United States. More...

By Eric Hoover. This past Saturday, more than a quarter-million high-school students woke up early to take the revamped SAT. The College Board had promised to deliver a fairer, more-straightforward test, and plenty of people surely will debate the new model’s merits (and flaws) for years to come. More...

By Eric Hoover. The College Board announced on Monday that it would bar all nonstudents from taking the new SAT this Saturday. That irked test-prep tutors, hundreds if not thousands of whom had registered for the examination, eager to see how it had or had not changed. More...

By Eric Hoover. Student recruitment is complicated like that, as a new national survey of college-bound students suggests. Although most respondents (57 percent) said they were willing to receive texts from colleges, some kinds of messages appealed to them more than others. More...