Higher Education

A college degree isn't worth what it was in the 1980s. Why would the wealthy pay huge sums to get their children into college?

It's long past time for every discipline to count and valorize all scholarly work, even or especially when it's aimed at an extramural audience.

The University of California's boycott of academic-publishing giant Elsevier has open-access advocates pleased. Others have concerns about transparency.

Multitasking can be damaging to your brain, and online students are bearing the brunt.

A more subtle form of prejudice than racism proves deeply problematic.

The secretary of education's plans threaten to make it more difficult for victims of sexual discrimination to seek justice, and might in turn hinder her goal of strengthening due process.

It's time to end the boot-camp approach to grad school.

What's behind academia's revolving door?

Upending the college accreditation process carries huge risks.

By resorting to satire, did Portland State University professor Peter Boghossian violate basic professional and ethical standards?

Advocates say education can transform offenders—and the neighborhoods where they live.

A public policy non-profit has put together some guidelines to help universities prepare for future free speech controversies.

What should higher education expect from the new Senate Finance Committee chair?

Jin Park, a Harvard pre-med student, became the first DACA recipient to win a Rhodes Scholarship after a rule change made him eligible.

A new study questions the place of meritocracy in higher education.

The latest academic hoax emerges from the same ideological position as the Trump administration's attack on trans rights.

Irish 4 Reproductive Health, a student activist group, filed suit against the Trump administration and Notre Dame over the school's refusal to offer birth control coverage to students and faculty.

Gun advocates are arguing that the controversial law is keeping students safer, but there's little evidence to back those claims.

A growing endowment generates wealth. A small part of that wealth is invested to bolster an administration tasked with generating prestige, and, as students rush to take out federal loans, raising tuition and fees.

A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from an investigation into Nike's control over the University of Oregon to a profile of Canada's Desmond Cole.

University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer needed money to save his school. Alum and Nike chief executive Phil Knight was happy to help. But after Frohnmayer made a key mistake, Knight exacted a brutal punishment.

As Americans' faith in higher education reacts to rising costs, mounting debts, and the growing sense that preparation for the workforce need not take a four-year degree, the post-World War II ambitions of higher education may prove to be a noble failure.

The letters-to-the-editor section of Science, one of the world's top scientific journals, is taking a new stance on what arguments it will accept about those accused of sexual harassment.

To relegate academic projects that seek to untangle the complexities of human systems to the realm of grievances is a farce—one that misses the point of the academic project in the first place.