The study, by two researchers at the University of Kansas School of Education, used data from the National Science Foundation's Survey of Earned Doctorates to examine whether loan amount...

The women now have tenure-track jobs on other campuses, but they contend that the discrimination they experienced at William Paterson slowed their...

The three experts—Robert F. Hartsook, a fund-raising consultant who works with colleges and other nonprofit organizations; Robert E. Carter, a philanthropy...

But for some scholars, the purchases are more a cause for concern than for celebration. Will such acquisitions by academic institutions, even...

The financial-aid change will affect students from families with incomes above $75,000. Dartmouth eliminated loans from all...

The Obama administration has no plans to renew two merit-based grants—the Academic...

The researchers were working on a longitudinal study of college students' financial attitudes and behaviors when the recession unexpectedly...

The university plans to make a public announcement on Monday morning. Mr. Bacow, who is 58 and has been president since 2001, told The Chronicle in an interview that he hoped "to return to the classroom in some capacity, perhaps at MIT or Harvard, if they'll have me." He was not seeking a...

The coalition, whose members include disciplinary associations and other faculty groups, calls on colleges in its issue brief to give...

Nancy Griesemer, the counselor, says she wasn't looking for trouble, just pursuing her favorite hobby with the help of a laptop computer. Ms. Griesemer, 59, works from her home, in Oakton, Va. On weekday mornings she sits down at her dining-room table to write. With Tom, her arthritic tabby...

The 10 largest publicly traded for-profit higher-education companies saw a sharp increase in their enrollments during the past fiscal year. Below is a list of those companies based on fall 2009 enrollment estimates. One notable omission from this list is Kaplan Higher Education, which this past fall enrolled 103,800 students -- 28 percent more than the previous year. But Kaplan is owned by the Washington Post Company and is not separately traded. 

Mr. Smith spoke with The Chronicle about the...

Her plans to return dissolved when, at 19, she got pregnant. She eventually got out of a bad relationship with the baby's father, only to get pregnant again six months later with someone else. Going...

It consists entirely of a gray building in an office park next to the freeway, 20 miles from the state capital, Sacramento. The library is a room with two short rows of books and a computer. The cluster of classrooms is quiet, bright, and standardized, a cross between a college and a Kinko's.

But the Sacramento Center, as the campus is called, is booming....

But how closely does it resemble a traditional community college? Created for a different demographic than Phoenix's mostly white-collar, midcareer professionals, Axia serves students who are typically entry-level workers with little or no previous college experience. While...

Enrollment in the country's nearly 3,000 career colleges has grown far faster than in the rest of higher education—by an average of 9 percent per year over the past 30 years, compared with only 1.5 percent per year for all institutions, according to an industry analyst. For-profit universities now educate about 7...

As for-profit colleges grow—in size, influence, and public perception—plenty of...

In How to Teach Physics to Your Dog (Scribner), Chad Orzel does just that. A physics professor at Union College, in Schenectady, N.Y., he uses conversations with his dog as a device to explain quantum physics to the layperson.

Each chapter opens with an exchange between Mr. Orzel and Emmy, his German shepherd. Emmy "seizes on some half-understood principle of...

In December, the Jacobs Foundation awarded Mr. Steinberg its first Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize for Productive Youth Development in a ceremony at the University of Zurich. The prize, worth about...

That is the financial backdrop as many private colleges set next year's tuition and financial-aid budgets in the coming weeks. As if that weren't complicated enough, everybody is wondering: How are families feeling?

Some college leaders think parents are more confident about their prospects than they were a year...

By graduation this spring, many students will have spent 18 months and hundreds of hours preparing for and attending job interviews and recruitment fairs, all but abandoning study for months on end.

Japanese corporations famously prefer their new recruits fresh from their education,...

But as the programs have grown, colleges have discovered that relying on faculty members to design and organize study-abroad trips does not always go as smoothly as hoped. Professors often lack the...