Applicants have ways to better their odds, but employers need to make changes, too.

The institution’s financial woes were widely known, but the announcement surprised students and faculty members.

Benjamin B. Bolger has spent his whole life amassing academic degrees. What can we learn from him?

Harvey Mansfield arrived at Harvard in 1949. By the time he retired last year, he was practically the last conservative standing.

College sports crumbled because universities forgot their educational mission,

A judge approved $2 million in settlements for each of the families of three students slain in the shooting, joining agreements totaling $3 million to two other students who were injured.

Librarians know more diversity is needed in archiving but it’s a work in progress. Hundreds of students protesting the Israel-Palestine conflict at Princeton University last month made for an event to remember, but detailing how it happened—and preserving that memory for historical archives—has proven more difficult than slipping demonstration fliers into dusty folders for posterity. “What were they using? Instagram,” said Daniel Linke, university archivist and deputy head of special collections at Princeton University Libraries. “How to save those things is much harder to answer.”

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