One Tiny College's Lessons for Higher Education

Interdisciplinary, entrepreneurial, and focused on ecology, the College of the Atlantic directs its personal approach to learning toward the future.

Today's Faculty: Stressed and Focused on Teaching

A national survey finds professors under pressure on many campuses. Those off the tenure track have conflicted views about their prospects.

Educating the Cyborg Generation

Lewis Duncan, of Rollins College, wants to prepare his students for the practical ethics of their own machine-enabled immortality.

IQ Wars Continue With Battles Over New Puzzles

In a new book, a pioneering scholar in New Zealand poses more challenges to the validity of intelligence tests.

Fulbright Tries Short-Term Offerings in Changing Academic Environment

The program is trying to adapt to the needs of today's scholars, many of whom want less than complete immersion in another country.

A University Taps Into Fulbright to Globalize the Campus

Northern Illinois University has changed the perception that only students from the Ivy League get the program's prestigious awards.

Tracing Modern Egypt, Refrigerator by Refrigerator

An American scholar on a Fulbright in Cairo is studying how changing patterns in consumer behavior illuminate modern political history.

2 Fulbright Nexus Scholars Zero In on Climate Change

The program was started by the U.S. State Department in 2010 to promote academic exchange between the Americas and encourage research on global problems.

State Ballot Measures Have Big Consequences for Higher Education

State elections will decide several important issues affecting higher education, including affirmative action and how institutions are financed.

For Controversial Immigrants, College Education Is Caught Up in Politics

The debate over their living in the U.S. without legal documentation continues in the presidential campaign and on ballot measures in two states.

'Trigger Cut' Proposition Heads for Vote in Calif.

Public colleges are holding their breath as polls indicate that a measure designed to fill the state budget's billion-dollar shortfall is too close to call.

Wired Campus: Facing Backlash, Minnesota Decides to Allow Free Online Courses After All

Universities offering free noncredit courses through Coursera do not have to register with the state, officials now say.

Drive for Accreditation Pushes Some Professors to the Sidelines

As Kutztown University of Pennsylvania's business school works toward AASCB approval, longtime faculty who focus on teaching are losing out.

Researchers in the Lab, Ready for Their Close-Up

JoVE, the world's first video science journal, aims to prevent a plague of irreproducible results.

Sticker Prices Go Up at Public 4-Year Colleges, but at a Slower Pace

With college affordability a hot topic in political campaigns, the College Board releases some marginally good news.

Lessons Gained From Decades in the Role of College President

Three long-serving presidents who are stepping down next year describe the keys to endurance.

First the Esteemed Writer's House, Now His Chair

The poet Nikky Finney was named the first Guy Davenport professor at the University of Kentucky. She lives in Mr. Davenport's former home.

Transitions: Santa Jeremy Ono to Lead U. of Cincinnati; Dinesh D'Souza Steps Down

Mr. Ono, a professor of pediatrics, has been serving as interim president since August. Read about that and other job-related news.

An Artist's Next Creative Work: Leading a Troubled College

Todd Sherman has just become the sixth dean of liberal arts at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks in five years.

E.K. Fretwell Jr., Who Led U. of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dies at 88; Other Notable Deaths

Mr. Fretwell led the campus from 1979 to 1989, during which time he increased its enrollment and made the student body and administration more diverse.

In Terms of Gender, Engineering and Teaching Are Lopsided

For all the efforts colleges are making to diversify their departments, some fields of study remain stubbornly single sex.

Men Dominate Philosophy and History

We're aware that fewer women study the sciences and math, but it might come as a surpirse that men outnumber women in certain humanities as well.

Rebooting Recruiting to Get More Women in Computer Science

For spurring interest in the major, nothing beats a pitch from someone close to students' own age.

From Cellblock to Campus, One Black Man Defies the Data

A criminal conviction can create barriers to attending college, among other experiences. Young black men pay a disproportionate price for that reality.

Men Like to Chill, Women Are Engaged

Colleges confront a gender gap in the ways that male and female students experience their years on campus.

Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of Students at 4,438 Institutions, Fall 2010

Lady Academe and Labor-Market Segmentation

In higher education, women have become better represented, but they are still treated and compensated inequitably.

Biology: Just Another Pink-Collar Profession?

More women than men earn doctorates in the field, but that majority doesn't make it to the faculty.

More Gender Diversity Will Mean Better Science

People from different backgrounds bring different approaches to problem-solving.

Why STEM Fields Still Don't Draw More Women

Thoughts from five experts.

Good Silences, Bad Silences, and Unforgivable Silences

For junior women of color on the faculty, a recurring conflict is the tension between voice and no voice.

Lessons From a Faculty Portrait: Keep Calm and Carry On

A pioneering black female faculty member at the University of Iowa's law school reflects on what it took for her to serve long enough to see a painting of herself unveiled.

A Real Harvard Man: Phillis Wheatley

Dear President Faust: Please add a new portrait to those of the white men on the walls of the faculty club.

Helping First-Generation Students Straddle 2 Cultures

Colleges can provide some assistance and comfort to anxious freshmen who may be intimidated by the world of academe.

On the Reservation, Literacy and the Oral Tradition

A professor and his students explore a Navajo approach to language and literature.

Responding to Malala

The attack on a Pakistani schoolgirl should serve as a call to educators to dedicate themselves anew to the goal of women's empowerment.

How Colleges Can Improve the Lives of Sweatshop Workers

More than three dozen colleges have supported the Designated Supplier Program in principle. Now they and others should do so in practice.

In an Era of Fraud, Why Should Academe Be Immune?

"Science is self-corrective in the long run, and fraud is eventually exposed, but often at great cost and sometimes with tragic consequences."

Oh, Him? He’s Mr. So-and-So, Esq.

“I would love to see an article on the title ‘J.D.’ and its use in academe.”

The Dissertation Defense: We're Doing Something Right

A look at some of the benefits of a well-run defense for both the candidate and the professors.