Chronicle of Higher Education

The challenges facing grant applicants will worsen if across-the-board federal budget cuts, known as sequestration, take effect on March 1.

The president has apologized for using a racially sensitive episode in U.S. history to make a point, but critics say the way he apologized was confusing.

Critics say the center would train interrogators using immigrants as subjects. The psychiatrist who would lead the project says its purpose is misunderstood.

Experts convened by survivors of the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech hope to devise a measure that provides a more accurate picture than Clery Act statistics.

H. Holden Thorp will take an unusual step down the administrative ladder in moving from North Carolina to St. Louis.

The documentary will criticize policy makers, politicians, unions, and others who "protect the flawed status quo."

Topics include how to raise money from alumni who belong to racial- or ethnic-minority groups and leadership theory for community-college administrators.

Debra Saunders-White will become the historically black institution's chancellor in June. Read about that and other job-related news.

For the second year in a row, President Obama used his State of the Union address to take colleges to task over rising tuition.

With federal money again flowing, studies will be marked by history, technology, culture, and complexity.

As the last of 16 reports on remaking the federal student-financial-aid system trickle out, consensus appears to be building around a few key ideas.

Edward O. Blews Jr., a lobbyist for private colleges in Michigan, now leads a national council of Christian colleges, for which he has global ambitions.

Rudolph H. Green, who was most recently at the University of Texas at Austin, will oversee practices in athletics as well as health care and research.

With tools like Google Analytics, doctoral students try to gauge the interest of colleges that visit their Web sites.

To meet the rising cost of college, students can call on at least one resource all their own.

Stereotypes about politeness aside, more Canadian university leaders are being shown the door by their governing boards.

A new enrollment option at the University of Florida is designed to expand access and promote the study of innovation.

The program is financed with a $1.2-million federal grant. Critics had challenged the project's legality because it involves Planned Parenthood.

Glimpses of life in academe from around the world.