Chronicle of Higher Education

The Community College of Baltimore County has reached out to the 2,000 workers laid off by RG Steel. The expected flood of applicants hasn't come.

Michael T. Benson, Eastern Kentucky's next leader, is president of Southern Utah University. Read about that and other job-related news.

The expectations legislatures place on them are higher than ever, campus chiefs said at a gathering in San Francisco, but they're finding more understanding, too.

The discovery that one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings was a student at UMass-Dartmouth led to an unnerving ordeal for the campus.

Christopher L. Eisgruber, a constitutional scholar, will replace Shirley M. Tilghman, who announced last fall that she would step down this year.

Many worry that religion will be seen as the determining factor in the suspects' actions, and that the suspicion that followed September 11, 2001, will re-emerge.

Students hunkered down in dorms or off campus on Friday, but tensions gave way to relief when the second suspect, a student at UMass at Dartmouth, was apprehended.

On one campus, grieving for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings shifts abruptly to anxiety'and evacuation'after a suspect is found to be a student there.

Mr. Alda played a central role in creating a center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook that helps researchers explain their findings to a general audience.

Glimpses of life in academe from around the world. 

The administration is getting faculty input now on how to brace for budget cuts, but anger lingers and may be felt at a Faculty Senate meeting today.

An NCAA policy allowing programs to guarantee scholarships for multiple years is off to a slow start, a Chronicle analysis has found.

While a manhunt closed many Boston colleges, UMass at Dartmouth, where a suspect in the bombings was enrolled, was evacuated, and MIT grieved the death of a police officer.

A report faults how the university went about firing more than 60 full-time faculty members last spring. The institution says it faced "serious financial pressures."

After years of budget cuts and harsh rhetoric about public colleges, legislators now seem willing to help raise the stature of at least two of them.

Criminal-background checks and pre-admission screening, which many colleges conduct as part of the admissions process, are found to be ineffective.

Two graduate students from China were among a group watching the race near the finish line. Now one is dead and the other is seriously hurt.

With commencement season starting soon, officials who oversee campus safety are looking for ways to improve their plans.

Education Sector said it was withdrawing the policy paper because its analysis was based on incorrect information.

The accreditor fielding the complaint against a Washington State community college has already come under federal pressure to hear adjuncts' concerns.