The Parent Loan Trap

The federal PLUS loan program has become indispensable for parents desperate to support their kids' college dreams. But the loans often hurt the families they're...

Habits of Mind: Lessons for the Long Term

Some faculty argue that in the growing emphasis on job-related skills, the cultivation of important intellectual traits is getting short shrift.

Is Pushing Faculty Productivity Worthwhile?

The cost savings may be elusive, some analysts say.

The Great Pretender

A Japanese professor churned out nearly 200 fraudulent papers over two decades. How was he able to avoid detection for so long?

Percolator: Misconduct, Not Error, Found Behind Most Journal Retractions

The high rate of fraud should be yet another warning that universities and grant makers rely too heavily on publication rates as a measure of scientific performance, say the...

Fake Peer Reviews, the Latest Form of Scientific Fraud, Fool Journals

Some scientists, impersonating outside reviewers for journals, are giving high marks to their own manuscripts.

Default Rate on Federal Student Loans Rises Again

The percentage of borrowers who defaulted within two years of entering repayment was 9.1 percent, more than twice the historic low set seven years earlier.

Longer Window Reveals Jumps in Default Rates

Colleges Grapple With Applicants' Criminal Data, Including Juvenile Records

Many colleges seek to collect information on juvenile or criminal violations by applicants, but what admissions officials do with the data varies greatly.

Union's Bid to Organize Georgetown U. Adjuncts Is Part of a Bigger Strategy

A union local hopes to organize bargaining units at enough Washington-area colleges to gain leverage over pay and benefits for adjuncts across the region.

Research Libraries Increase Spending on Digital Materials

The shift to digital has effects on staffing as well, as new numbers from the Association of Research Libraries show.

Library Investment Index for University Research Libraries, 2010-11

Wired Campus: Bring Us Your Innovative Ed-Tech Ideas, Education Dept. Says at Meeting

Free online courses could be “a piece of the solution,” said federal officials at the event.

Wired Campus: Service That Helps Professors Stay Connected When Visiting Other Campuses Is Expanding

The username and password that give you access to the Internet on your campus might soon work at most any large university in the United States.

Wired Campus: Hacker Group Breaches Thousands of University Records to Protest Higher Education

The group says it attacked more than 120,000 accounts at dozens of institutions to protest what it sees as higher education’s high cost and low quality.

Next: Is More Competition Really Good for Higher Education?

The rules of business suggest that more competition benefits consumers. But that might be one rule that business leaders don’t want to apply to colleges, writes Jeff...

UC-Riverside Chief Is Named Chancellor of California State U. System

Timothy P. White will take office in December, as the state's public higher-education systems face the possibility of another round of budget cuts.

Calif. Veteran of Billion-Dollar Campaigns Takes Expertise Down the Road

John B. Ford raised an impressive amount for Stanford before he retired. Now the University of California at San Francisco is hoping he'll do something similar for it.

Transitions: Ohio State to Get New Chief Fund Raiser; Ball State Has New Alumni Leader

Michael C. Eicher is leaving the Johns Hopkins University for his new well-paid post at Ohio State. Read about that and other job-related news.

'It's Almost as if Max Eastman Quoted From the Novel ... So That We'd Have This Great Proof'

While working as an intern at Columbia's rare-books library, Jean-Christophe Cloutier found the unpublished manuscript of a famous Harlem Renaissance writer.

Poli-Sci Professor Leads Other Life as Brigadier General

Lewis Irwin, an associate professor at Duquesne University, travels each weekend to fulfill his leadership role in the Army Reserve.

Woody Guthrie at 100

The Dust Bowl troubadour remains equal parts icon and enigma.

The Brave New World of Genome Science

Imagine virus-immune humans visiting resurrected woolly mammoths. The future may be closer than you think.

Do We Need U.S. Military Academies?

America's military academies have become mockeries of their own ideals.

'Midnight's Children' Flourishes in Screen Adaptation

A complementary take on Salman Rushdie's masterly novel conveys the book's scope while streamlining its story.

The Quest to Quantify Consciousness

One neuroscientist is on a mission to make "the citadel of our senses" more widely understood.

The Professor Lady Spits Rhymes

At a small Lutheran college in rural Kansas, a white, middle-aged English professor spits rhymes.

Russian Riot Grrrls Go to Church (and Prison)

On Inconsistency, Weights, and Measures

A New Kind of Affirmative Action Can Ensure Diversity

A national ban on racial preferences in admissions could push colleges to correct deeper issues of inequality.

Moving at the Speed of Academe

It takes way too long to get anything done in higher education.

Let's Break the Silence on Hearing Loss

It's high time that we helped our hearing-impaired colleagues move out of their isolated worlds.

Author's 'Errors and Transgressions' Can't Be Ignored

"We must be suspicious of any effort by Mr. Rosenfeld to make sense of these documents without the assistance of critics he has wrongly maligned."

'Any Reasonable Person' Would See Glaxo Study as Fraud

"The ghostwriter, Ms. Laden, continued to manage the manuscript throughout the process, under guidance from GlaxoSmithKline."

Whom to Please? Politicians or Students?

"Now, it appears, we are going to tell our customers that if they do not pick a college major leading to employment that will pay off their college loan, they are wrong."

A Salutary Lesson From Dr. Johnson

"I learned a valuable lesson about honorifics several years ago."

Mathematics and What It Means to Be Human, Part 1

Two professors begin a three-part series on their efforts to explore the connections between math and the humanities in the classroom.