E nrollment leaders often confide in Angel B. Pérez. Recently, some have told him their jobs are wearing them down, wrecking their health, and wringing the joy out of their lives. In August, Pérez, ...

T he Missouri Tigers had tied the Kansas Jayhawks going into the half. It was the first installment in 14 years of the “Border War,” a football rivalry that had fallen victim to reshuffling among ...

I t was early summer, and Eric Li, who had just finished seventh grade, had two camps to attend in the coming weeks. One was a classic camp in the woods of New Hampshire. The other was the Center for ...

O n October 1, the Trump administration sent letters to nine universities asking them to sign a Compact for Academic Excellence with the federal government. This compact contains demands that are a ...

Amanda Anderson is a professor of English and humanities and the director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. She is the author, with Simon During, of the forthcoming ...

Despite the promise of more federal dollars, several provisions could upend an already precarious business model.

It’s simple math. The higher Walter Iwanenko Jr. climbed on academe’s career ladder, the fewer people on the same rung were on campus with him. At the faculty and even department-chair rungs, there ...

L ast week, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to nine leading universities proposing a new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” between America and its universities. As ...

Christopher L. Eisgruber’s new book, Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right argues that the notion that, since 2015 or so, colleges have been especially chilly places for free speech is ...

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The federal government careened into a widespread shutdown shortly after midnight on Wednesday, adding yet another wrinkle to an increasingly acrimonious relationship between the Trump administration ...

The government is funding respected scholars to study autism’s causes, at a time when experts say it’s also sowing misinformation about the same topic.