Inside Higher Ed's News

The spring semester is four months away, and college administrations are making plans. Many are canceling spring break.

Dissatisfied with the way local schools are responding to the pandemic, families increasingly turn to online K-12 options to educate their children -- including schools run by universities.

As colleges try to tamp down partying by students, administrators consider options for promoting lower-risk -- not no-risk -- social opportunities and providing a semblance of a normal college experience.

Although its acquisition of the Claremont School of Theology is still incomplete, Willamette University announced plans Thursday to add the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

The university plans to reinstate two cut women's athletics programs and agreed with legal advocates that a 1998 sports gender equity agreement should end in 2024.

Rising infection counts drove a shelter-in-place order at the University of Wisconsin at Madison shortly after classes started, prompting questions about bringing students back to campus.

Working adults increasingly are interested in pursuing postsecondary education, but they are also less confident about the value of college.

Erik Ankerberg, associate vice president for academics and professor of English at Concordia University Chicago, in Illinois, has been promoted to provost there. Brian Cole, interim chancellor and former dean of the School of Music at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, has been named chancellor on a permanent basis.

University of Chicago English says it's only admitting Black studies Ph.D. candidates for 2021 admissions cycle, citing Black Lives Matter and the field's complicated history with regard to race.