Chronicle of Higher Education

The death of a Chinese graduate student in the Boston bombings focuses new attention on what has become a mounting concern.

Also found in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's room at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth: a hat and a jacket like those seen in photographs of the bomb scene.

Several sessions at the annual conference were devoted to how colleges are working to raise the proportion of black men who earn postsecondary credentials.

At the sector's annual meeting this week, organizers made a big push to sign up colleges to participate in the Voluntary Framework of Accountability.

The report, from the New America Foundation, suggests collaborative approaches that would help more students find an affordable pathway to a degree.

Getting students past remedial courses and helping them focus their academic goals were among strategies discussed at a meeting of college leaders.

As a wave of community-college presidents retires, their successors confront a day of reckoning, said speakers at the sector's annual meeting.

Billed as Asia's first massive open online course, the class on science, technology, and China is a sign of the region's growing interest in online education.

Babson College chose Kerry Healey, a past lieutenant governor, as its next leader. But some people on the campus have counted her political views against her.

Working 30 or more hours a week earns employees health insurance under the new law. Colleges, worried about the cost, have a solution.

Mary Sue Coleman, the first woman to serve as the University of Michigan's president, will retire when her contract expires, in July 2014.

In thinking of return on investment, dollars and cents ought to be taken into account, but not to the exclusion of other things that matter.

Just three days after Rodney D. Bennett was named the university's next leader, a tornado devastated the campus and shifted his priorities.

Highly publicized attacks on women have led to discussions about bias and harassment.

With students newly interested in making their own food and experimenting with recipes, dorm kitchens are being remade as gathering places.

A recent symposium brought together researchers in the digital humanities with scientists from the data-heavy trenches of computational biology.

Francis L. Lawrence led Rutgers from 1990 to 2002, and Gerald W. Lynch was president of a criminal-justice college from 1977 to 2004.