Chronicle of Higher Education

Bucknell University makes a place for it, both figuratively and literally.

As price-conscious students increasingly choose less-expensive colleges, discounting is losing its power to keep enrollments healthy, a survey suggests.

As militants sought to destroy the valuable scholarly manuscripts, Malian researchers and their neighbors spirited them away or hid them in their homes.

The university's next president, Michael T. Benson, has helped two institutions in Utah with fund raising in a major way.

Students took the initiative to make classroom instruction in such skills mandatory.

Leigh Wilson Smiley, of the University of Maryland, created an online site that crowdsources accents so actors can learn to imitate them for their roles.

M. Dolores Cimini, who is blind, says the path to careers in science and math for the disabled is not always clear, and students need to recognize opportunities when they arise.

Rainy-day funds, generally considered to be prudent measures, are targets of legislators unfamiliar with multibillion-dollar enterprises like state universities.

Michigan State's new Broad Museum is the latest in a line of campus art galleries that goes back centuries.

James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University, advised the driver kidnapped by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

In an era of uncertain support for the arts, they live and thrive on college campuses.

Faculty at several colleges have pushed back against online teaching collaborations with outside vendors, saying they want to use technology on their own terms.

Hopkins's next academic-affairs leader is an interim dean at Columbia, and Babson's is the college's graduate dean. Read about that and other job-related news.

A statement from a national council is intended to prompt policy makers and test designers to think more fully about the pitfalls of machine scoring.

Under the proposal, the university would report on its Web site the average grades in academic programs, to provide context and to thwart grade inflation.

A dispute involving an evolutionary theorist escalated from claims of fraud to accusations of violent behavior.

The result was a major victory for the Service Employees International Union's effort to organize the instructors across the Washington, D.C., area.

Students graduating from college this year overestimate their chances of getting well-paying, full-time jobs.

The Rev. Donald J. Harrington had come under fire for accepting lavish gifts from a former dean accused of embezzlement at the New York institution.