Nancy Cable was named chancellor of UNC Asheville. She has served as a foundation president and administrator at Denison University, Guilford College, Davidson College, University of Virginia and Bates College.

A modest but meaningful revolt against traditional gender roles is brewing in some seemingly unlikely places.

My alma mater provides comfort to student mobs, and half the faculty back ‘trigger warnings.’

As the school year ends, many students watch videos of others hitting the books; making flashcards

Generally, people who enter the job market during an economic downturn start with lower wages than those who graduate in better times, and it takes those who start behind a decade or more to catch up — if they ever do.

At private universities, the Constitution has nothing to say about whether white supremacist speakers should receive platforms.

Jill Ker Conway, the first woman president of Smith College in Massachusetts, has died at age 83.

A faculty group at the Catholic University of America voted “no confidence” in President John Garvey and Provost Andrew Abela last week, according to the National Catholic Reporter. The Faculty Assembly vote tally regarding Garvey was 62-0 with one abstention. The vote of no confidence in Abela was 63-0, with two abstentions. (The assembly is distinct from the official Academic Senate, of which Abela is part.) 

British historian Niall Ferguson resigned from his senior role in a speaker series called Cardinal Conversations at Stanford University, after leaked emails showed that he’d asked his research assistant and Republican students to conduct “opposition research” on another student activist, SFGate reported. 

Colleges redesign the first-year experience to improve retention, learning outcomes, and students’ sense of belonging.

Not only have these DACA students persevered to graduate from college. As the school year comes to an end, signs have emerged that still more will enroll and many already there will stay.