A Latino has never served on the central bank’s board, so Ms. Kugler would be the first if confirmed.

Students are staging an open-ended occupation of the anthropology library after the University of California, Berkeley, announced it would shutter the 67-year-old institution to save money.

Lance Weiler is an A.I. convert. His art students at Columbia University are still debating the creative value of ChatGPT and Midjourney. Powerful tools or a crutch?

If there were an affirmative action program for the descendants of enslaved people, would you consider that to be race-based?

The idea that colleges are "indoctrinating" young people is so pervasive that legislatures want to punish schools and professors — key economic drivers.

UNC Charlotte dedicated a new memorial on Friday to the students who were killed and injured in a campus shooting in 2019.

Vanderbilt’s chancellor thinks academic leaders should stay out of politics—but the ongoing assaults on rights and freedoms emanating from the Tennessee Legislature show the limits of that stance, Brian L. Heuser writes. In a May 2022 Inside Higher Ed opinion piece, the relatively new Vanderbilt University chancellor married our great institution to his doctrine of “principled neutrality,” asserting that university leaders should refrain from commenting on political matters.

The latest target of the conservative attack on DEI is identity-based graduation ceremonies. Universities argue they give students an opportunity to celebrate their accomplishments with their communities. As graduation season rolls around, conservatives are taking aim at an annual tradition that aims to celebrate the accomplishments of minority students.

See the latest federal data on compensation for all ranks of the profession at thousands of American colleges.