Charlie Eaton is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Merced. He is author of Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education.

The data paints an unusually detailed picture of a selective college’s first cycle without race-conscious admissions.

For a while now, Republicans have been the party openly hostile to the sector. Many on campus are alarmed about Donald ...

At first, it looked like a paradigm of science done right. A group of behavioral scientists had repeated the same experiments ...

Journal retractions are a necessary part of the scientific process. They allow the scientific community both to correct ...

I n the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision on racial affirmative action and ongoing barriers to student-debt cancellation, state and federal policymakers are seeking new ways to reach racially ...

I was a bit surprised to read an op-ed last week in The Boston Globe that seemed to argue — that came right up to the line of arguing — that there are too many Jews among Harvard’s administrators. You ...

The selection of Valerio Ferme as president came as a relief to many after a contentious search process marred by political ...

Anne Kenworthy, vice president for enrollment management, marketing, and strategic initiatives at the University of Findlay, ...

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An unhappy department head wonders about the repercussions of quitting before the three-year appointment is up.

T his election is the most important of our lifetimes. It will define the future. Hype like that materializes every four ...