Chronicle of Higher Education

The updates, the first since 2003, come at a time of rapid growth in the number of foreign business schools seeking recognition from the accreditor.

The scorecard will allow students and families to compare colleges in the system, and will help the colleges measure and improve their performances.

For publishing their own research, faculty members still seek out journals with the highest prestige, regardless of format, a survey finds.

The university will hire an independent investigator to review the handling of abuse allegations against Mike Rice Jr., the coach who was fired last week.

Annual pay averages $84,000; the increase just matches inflation. Not all of the numbers are heartening, though.

Many have aged in place, working in contract jobs with lower pay and less job security than their tenured colleagues.

State budget cuts are turning Florida State U., for example, into a "farm team" for other institutions, its president warns.

More resources and better data can pay off for two-year colleges, according to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Anil B. Deolalikar hopes professors and students at the U. of California at Riverside will help solve the region's educational, environmental, and transportation problems.

Explore an interactive database on faculty salaries in 2012-13, from a national survey conducted by the American Association of University Professors.

Robert V. Remini won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1984 for a volume on Andrew Jackson. Read about that and other deaths in academe.

Susan A. Elkins is leading the university's Palmetto College, which seeks to help rural students graduate. She did similar work in Tennessee.

A growing number of institutions are granting raises, bonuses, even tenure for nontraditional research, local service, and innovative teaching.

The political scientist who sparked a national debate over work-life balance with a magazine essay will lead the nonpartisan think tank.

Institutions will persevere, but America risks losing its scientific supremacy.

Many founders of education start-ups share the optimistic belief that if you change the world, money will follow.

Stephen M. Kosslyn is founding dean of the Minerva Project, a for-profit institution that hopes to compete with the Ivy League.

Hundreds of thousands have gone into default, in part because they cannot consolidate and refinance the debt.

Brian D. Voss will help Educause come up with a plan to reduce colleges' technology costs. Read about that and other job-related news.