(Source: Bryn Mawr College)Paying for college isn't like buying a pair of shoes. If you want a $50 pair but can't afford them, the cashier won't accept $40 because you don't have...

Long-suffering adjuncts, often torn between their love for teaching and their hatred for dismal salaries and treatment, can at least talk to someone who understands. Adjunct Nation, an excellent...

Anyone who works in academia knows how exhausting---and often absurd---the interview process for a tenure track position can be, both for hopeful job hunters and hiring committees. 9 Interviews"...

The National Research Council recently began a new assessment of doctoral programs, its first since the highly esteemed study in 1995. Key changes include an increase in the number of disciplines...

Four college and university professors were recently named as recipients of the U.S. Professors of the Year Award. Finalists are honored for their dedication and innovation in the field of higher...

Already under pressure from wrapping up senior year requirements, college graduates may soon have one less thing to worry about: finding a job. The Collegiate Employment Research Institute at...

This year's crop of American Rhodes Scholars was named recently. Among the 32 winners are four from the U.S. Naval Academy and three each from the University of Chicago, Yale and Duke. Harvard...

Lines were drawn Monday night when clandestine footage of Brown University's annual "Sex Power God" party was aired on Fox's The O'Reilly Factor. O'Reilly criticized Brown...

It is a dark day in higher education: Professor John Sutherland, of University College London, is working to develop a program which would reduce works of literature to cell phone text messages. For...

(Source: Harvard University)A recent New York Times article sheds light on a phenomenon unfamiliar to most would-be Ivy Leaguers: You can go to Harvard as an undergraduate even if you don't get...

Led by Ferdinand Schlapper, the head of Health Services, Boise State University may soon be the first four year university to ban smoking completely from its campus. Even designated outside...

(Source: University of Minnesota)Students focus so much energy on getting in to college that they seemingly ignore the important matter of getting out. Now researchers want to know why so many...

How many people, in revering the hallowed halls of higher education, know about its dirty little secret? More and more universities and colleges are employing increasing numbers of adjunct...

A partnership with Apple computers allows the lucky student at Stanford,the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Brown University and Duke University a unique opportunity. From MTV News:Sleep...

(Source: Vanderbilt University)Working for a "charity" such as a college or university dooms one to a life of penury, right? No, not if you're a university president. Consider this from...

Remember TGIF---Thank God it's Friday? Well, on campuses across America, it's now TGIT. Friday classes have become almost extinct, creating a three-day weekend that starts Thursday night. And...

College sports has become big business, and betting on the outcomes of football and basketball games has exploded into a billion-dollar industry. Plenty of money can be won, assuming you're savvy...

(Source: Yale University)Thanks to an anonymous gift of $100 million, students at the Yale School of Music won't have to worry about that pesky nuisance called tuition. As a result, graduates...

(Charles Eliot, Harvard president, 1869-1909)This week's Chronicle of Higher Education features a series of articles on the college presidency. Based on a survey of presidents the Chronicle...