Liberal arts colleges

A Berkeley dean talks about taking Hampshire's top job, politically active campuses, and becoming one of the few openly gay college presidents.

Middlebury College, a liberal arts institution in Vermont, is negotiating to take over a graduate school in California.

After 3 years looking inward, a top liberal arts college emerges with new plans for sophomores, interdisciplinarity, faculty hiring and the budget.

The "preoccupation with money" is eroding the values of higher education, argues a new book: Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money, published in April by the University of Virginia Press. The authors -- James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield -- question the endowment obsession of presidents, the rating obsession of admissions officers, and the career obsession of students.

Liberal arts college in Vermont will take over California institute known for its graduate programs in global fields.

Administrators say policy changes on Greek life and other issues dear to traditionalists are no pattern.

College cuts budget of center that invited Ward Churchill; controversial professor offends again -- this time with comments on "fragging."

Three private colleges that reduced charges dramatically share information on what worked -- and what didn't.

For most of American history, small colleges have been "the defining core of postsecondary opportunities" for students, writes Samuel Schuman in Old Main: Small Colleges in Twenty-First Century America, just published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Candidates angered by a series of controversies fail in bid to become trustees.