Chronicle of Higher Education

Under a bipartisan plan, students who are in the country illegally could become citizens in five years, and some foreign students could stay to work after earning graduate degrees.

Michael G. Riley, editorial director of Bloomberg Government, will be The Chronicle's chief executive officer and editor in chief.

While 89 percent of high-school teachers said their students were ready for college work, just a quarter of college faculty members agreed, a survey found.

The instructor says his dismissal shows that the college is not serious about stopping cheating. The college says it was his conduct that crossed ethical lines.

The community-college chief proposes meeting with professors "two by two" amid concerns over his leadership and treatment of a student newspaper.

After hearing high praise from the performer Henry Rollins, librarians delved into discussions of the library's changing role in the academic enterprise.

The centers are serving a growing number of students with "significant" mental-health issues, according to the results of a new survey.

The administration is not giving up on efforts to hold colleges accountable for their students' employability and to force states to step up oversight of distance education.

Some librarians say the founder of Edwin Mellen Press is a bully for his legal threats against bloggers who criticize his company. But he says he's the one being bullied.

David Graeber, a scholar of the radical left, can't find a job. Maybe American anthropology departments aren't as liberal as you think.

"What we look for is eye movement," says one veteran of the online-test-proctoring industry. It's "almost instrusive," says another.

Student-loan debt is growing more quickly among people age 60 and older than in any other age group.

Sean M. Decatur, Oberlin College's dean of the arts and sciences, is preparing to switch loyalties as he becomes president of another private institution in Ohio.

Stephen Enniss, of the Folger Shakespeare Library, will lead the humanities-research library and museum. Read about that and other job-related news.

Jason Stanley says Yale offers him access to top people in all the areas he wants to explore.

A university with a troubled history of hazing has hired an alumnus to help ensure that the practice ends.

John S. Wilson Jr., who left a post in the White House, wants to give Morehouse College the great future he imagined it could have when he was a student there.

Glimpses of life in academe from around the world.

Service Employees International Union is branching out with a "metropolitan" organizing strategy that started in the Washington, D.C., area.