In Study Abroad, Men Are Hard to Find

Whatever the cause, the trend worries many in the field, who say an international experience has become even more valuable for students.

Accidental Activist Collects National Data on Adjuncts' Working Conditions

A writing instructor implored colleagues to contribute to a public spreadsheet about their working conditions. "Let's combine forces," he wrote. And did they ever.

College Groups React With Praise and Caution

Obama seeks increases for job training and student aid but offers few details about plans to link some aid to college costs.

Obama Seeks 1.5% Increase for Basic Research

The president has placed heaviest emphasis on driving technologies calculated to produce economic benefits.

Facing Budget Pressure, NIH Sees Opportunity to Favor Younger Researchers

The agency is trimming existing grants and taking other steps in hopes of directing a larger share of its budget to younger scientists.

Budget Presents Mixed Picture for International Education

While some programs, like the Fulbright, would receive increases, many others face cuts or only slight rises in support.

For Cultural Endowments, Modest Gains

The National Endowments for the Arts and for the Humanities would each be allocated $8-million more than in the 2012 fiscal year under the president's plan.

Table: Highlights of Obama's Fiscal 2013 Budget for Higher Education and Science

Table: Details of Obama's Fiscal 2013 Budget for Higher Education

The Glossy Viewbook Loses Its Luster

Among a college's courtship materials, the expensive "coffee-table book" is giving way to newer strategies.

Investigations Raise Questions About American Colleges' Overseas Operations

Several stumbles by American colleges in setting up programs with foreign partners have called attention to problems inherent in making such arrangements.

How 'Flipping' the Classroom Can Improve the Traditional Lecture

It may not have the gee-whiz factor of high-tech innovation, but changing expectations for what happens in class may prove to be a bigger advance in teaching.

Kean U. Trustees Back Embattled President

The New Jersey institution's board narrowly endorsed Dawood Farahi's leadership, but said it did not condone his careless mistakes on his résumé.

Gifts to Colleges Rose 8.2% in 2011, Survey Finds

The total raised comes close to the amount seen in 2008, the best year ever for giving to colleges. But most of the money went to just 25 percent of the institutions.

Table: Money Raised by More Than 1,000 Institutions in 2010-11

Faculty Cry Foul Over Intellectual-Property Policy at U. of Louisiana System

Does the university really intend to claim 60 percent of professors' book royalties? A broadly written guide has set off an uproar.

National Science Foundation Steps Up Its Push for Interdisciplinary Research

An agency official is visiting colleges to emphasize the NSF leadership's belief in the value of applying discoveries and approaches as widely as possible.

Wired Campus: MIT's New Free Courses May Threaten (and Improve) the Traditional Model, Program's Leader Says

Two academics working on the new service answer questions about how it will work and what it means for the status quo.

5 Minutes With a Sociologist, Jailed for Refusing to Divulge Subjects, About the Controversy at Boston College

A sociologist jailed in the 1990s for protecting his subjects talks about the controversy over the Belfast Project at Boston College.

Robert Glaser, Scholar Who Influenced Testing, Dies at 91

He directed a center on learning research at the University of Pittsburgh for 34 years.

Why I Moved: An Intriguing Job Title Pulls a Continuing-Education Dean South

When she heard that Stetson University had a job involving "boundless learning," Emily Richardson couldn't resist.

Selected New Books on Higher Education

A roundup of new books about higher education.

An Emerging Field Deconstructs Academe

"Critical university studies" has reached a critical mass.

The American Century Is Over—Good Riddance

America's time as the "most powerful and vital nation in the world" has passed.

Salman Rushdie and Me

A writer's tale of rebellion and reunion.

Not Your Dad's Science Films (Even if You See Them With Your Dad)

A scientist and his humanist son play Siskel and Ebert at a festival in Hungary.

Bucking the Knowledge Factory

This adjunct is mad as heck, and she isn't going to take it anymore.

American Jazz, Africa's Voice

A book recounts the revolutionary musical and cultural cross-rhythms between two continents in the 50s and 60s.

The Case for and Against Sports

The Hell of War in Consumer Heaven

National Goals for College Education Depend on the States

For more than a decade, state-government support for higher education has been diminishing.

Colleges Should Teach Intellectual Virtues

Beyond learning to think critically and analytically, students need to learn to be good citizens.

Why Every Professor Needs Linguistics 101

A linguistically unaware professor is ultimately not fully trained.

Is Our Goal to See Gorillas Hitherto Unseen?

"Ultimately, it seems, all college-level education could go away.

Scholarly Publishing Needs a New Model: iTunes

"It seems to us that the standard academic publishing model is in dire need of reform."

What to Ask—and Not to Ask—in Your Interview

During an interview, the questions you ask may be as important as those you answer.