Complaints of Anti-Semitism Raise Issues of Academic Freedom

Increasing reports of anti-Semitic words and deeds raise issues of academic freedom, and the groups disagree over when and how to complain.

Advocacy Group Devises 'Make Friends' Plan to Buttress Campus Support for Israel

The David Project's program for positive action is welcomed, with some reservations, by some of the group's previous critics.

2-Year Colleges Fight to Save Access for All

In the push to graduate more students, community colleges are forced to focus on those most likely to succeed, at the expense of those who need their help the most.

A Feminist Professor's Closing Chapters

The scholar Susan Gubar sees her memoir on ovarian cancer as confronting an issue that has eluded women through history: telling the truth about the experiences of the female...

Percolator: Is Psychology About to Come Undone?

A project aims to replicate a year’s worth of studies in three psychology journals. It’s not an attack, but a bid to gauge the reproducibility of published research.

Wired Campus: Online-Education Start-Up Teams With Top-Ranked Universities to Offer Free Courses

Coursera provides a course platform through partnerships between Princeton, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Debate at N.Y. Public Library: Can Off-Site Storage Work for Researchers?

Critics say that the system doesn't work well in practice, and that taking books out of the heart of the library sends the wrong message to users

China's Universities Struggle to Keep Pace With a Booming Economy

Professors want to buy updated textbooks, do away with outmoded courses, and find jobs for thousands of graduates.

Institute Accused of Falsely Reporting How It Spent State Dept. Funds Settles Lawsuit for $1-Million

The suit, which is gaining fresh attention from international educators, painted a picture of improper accounting practices by the Institute of International Education.

Slide Show: Remembering a Tragedy

Photos offer an inside look at one campus's performance of an unusual play that honors the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech.

Can Colleges Manufacture Motivation?

Talk about learning in higher education is dominated by buzzwords like "engagement" and "critical thinking." But what really drives student success may be something else.

Bleak Economy Has Had Far-Reaching Effects on Higher Education, Panelists Say

Faculty members will face a more "harried future," warn speakers at an educational research meeting.

Virginia Military Institute Considers Limiting How Many Students Can Choose Popular Majors

The controversial plan, suggested by a dean, aims to equalize faculty workloads and spread the institute's 1,500 students more evenly across disciplines.

Education Innovators: Preaching (as Usual) to the Choir

Sure, there were true believers in technology’s transformative power at the Education Innovation Summit this week, writes Jeff Selingo. But not all were hostile to...

AAUP Election Results Reflect Backlash Against Recent Leadership Decisions

A slate of candidates calling for an overhaul of the American Association of University Professors trounced its opponents in elections to the organization's top offices.

Alumni Celebrate Nearly Six Decades of a Famous Seminar With Some Afterthoughts

Richard N. Gardner taught at Columbia Law School for almost 60 years. Many former students gathered to honor him at a conference just before he retires.

Transitions: Dalton Conley Leaves NYU for U. of the People

He will be dean of arts and sciences at the tuition-free online institution. Read that and other job-related news here.

A Medical-School Professor and Economist Talks About Colleges and the Affordable Care Act

Jay Bhattacharya describes how the Supreme Court's decision is likely to affect higher education.

Howard M. Ziff, Founder of UMass Journalism Program, Dies at 81

Mr. Ziff played many roles with gusto. He was a boisterous, ink-stained wretch and a kind mentor who helped open doors for his students.

Selected New Books on Higher Education

A list of recent works about academe

50 Years of Paradigms

On its 50th anniversary, Thomas Kuhn’s "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" remains not only revolutionary but controversial.

What Lillian Hellman Knew

We can continue to flog the writer for her abrasive moralism, or we can seek a more nuanced view of her politics.

The Sociologist as Ethical Entrepreneur

The late Irving Louis Horowitz paired his intellectual and business instincts to bold, unorthodox effect.

EvoPolitics

Partisan manipulation of Darwinian notions yields some strange, simplistic conclusions.

'Osama bin Laden Made Me Famous'

Bernard Lewis is credited with providing the intellectual firepower for the war in Iraq. Now he says he opposed it from the start.

Spring Awakening

A mind-altering lesson contained no lecture, just a wizardly musical score that spoke volumes.

The Importance of Digital Preservation

Review My Book, But Hold the Attitude

Stop Telling Students to Study for Exams

Giving students traditional tests, especially the sadistic ritual of finals, is not just a waste of their time, it's counterproductive.

The Suddenly Empty Chair

After a student's suicide, an instructor questions herself.

A Public University, Cannibalized Before Our Eyes

An ill-conceived merger plan in New Jersey is a warning that any state college can fall prey to powerful political interests.

What Do Adjuncts Want? Respect and Support

"Changing exploitative conditions starts with quantifying what the conditions are."

Title III Deadline Favors Rich Colleges

"This is a very short window for a complex application that is accompanied ... by no fewer than 94 pages of instructions."

What Graduate Students Want to Know About Community Colleges, Part 1

Ph.D. candidates, and even some of their advisers, seem more interested than ever in careers at two-year colleges.