More Loan Servicers, More Problems

With 13 companies now handling federal direct loans and more to come, aid administrators predict that the resulting inconsistencies will overwhelm borrowers.

A Struggling College for Women Puts 'Everything on the Table'

A current of optimism enlivens the threadbare campus of Wilson College, where planning for the future is a wide-open process.

U. of South Carolina Crafts an Online Degree That Students Can Afford

The Back to Carolina program is focused on students who want the Carolina "brand" and don't want to pay for-profit education's steeper prices.

Careers, Interrupted

When universities close entire programs, professors are forced to hit reset.

Where Washington State U. Professors Landed After 3 Programs Closed

Russia Unveils a $2-Billion Campus on the Edge of China

The Kremlin says the university will join the world's best in a decade, but skeptics say it will be hard to recruit to a place that is "unbearably freezing and windy."

The Marriage of Computer Science to Journalism

Mark Hansen left UCLA to join Columbia University, where he will work to realize Helen Gurley Brown's goal of fostering change.

At Stanford, New Medical and Law Deans Expect to Work Collaboratively

The two deans, who were attracted by the university's emphasis on interdisciplinary studies, will explore how each field can contribute to the other.

Bill Moggridge, Designer of First Laptop, Dies at 69

Mr. Moggridge, who taught at Stanford for nearly 30 years, developed design elements that are still used today. His is among the notable deaths in academe.

Transitions: Elliott Shore to Lead Library Group; Designer of First Laptop Dies

Mr. Shore, chief information officer at Bryn Mawr College, starts his new job in January. Read about that and other job-related news.

The Marketplace in Your Brain

Scientists have identified brain regions that decide what�s valuable. Why are most economists ignoring them?

Twilit Dreams

How Stephenie Meyer's throwback heartthrob vampires masterfully sucked feminism dry.

Journeys to the Ends of the Earth

Studying polar expeditions past and present might help us deal more constructively with climate change.

Inside the Cuban Missile Crisis

Fifty years later, scholars try to get inside the heads of three leaders a thread away from Armageddon.

Only Disconnect

True learning requires intimacy, with self and others, of a kind that Facebook doesn't foster.

Author of 'Subversives' Responds to Book's Critics

"When the dust settles, The Chronicle and its handful of critics will have no choice but to revise their accounts of Richard Aoki, who turns out to have been a far more...

Professor's Patent Sees Business Model With Access Codes

"The publisher can convert textbook titles into a trademarked series and require a license whenever the professor cites the title in a syllabus."

A 3-Year B.A. Program Sees High Demand

"We were quite surprised when we received nearly 400 applications for our inaugural cohort."

Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No

Companies shouldn't make millions from the free labor of professors.

Let's Spread the Word About Fair Use

There's no need for you to ask permission to use my book chapter in your course pack, let alone pay me for it.

Honor Codes Work Where Honesty Has Already Taken Root

It is far easier for a college to maintain a culture of integrity than it is to build one.

We Met in Graduate School

Telling our dual-career stories, problems and all, might be the best gift our generation can hand down to the next.

A Song of Vice and Mire

For all the good they do, community colleges are notorious for poor governance.