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The University of Maine’s chancellor hid information on a candidate hired as president of the Augusta campus. He accepts responsibility for his mistakes and vows a review of executive hiring policies.

Shiney James resigned Tuesday following an investigation into allegations from former student employees that she created an abusive and toxic work environment.

The Pell Grant should be doubled, but it should only be applicable to institutions where Pell combined with other forms of grant aid covers 80 percent of the cost of attendance, David Ferreira writes.

A plan to restructure Texas A&M’s 10 libraries would force librarians to relinquish tenure or move to another academic department to keep it. The university has yet to explain its rationale for the changes.

Sonoma State president Judy Sakaki allegedly ignored her husband’s sexual harassment of college employees. That triggered a no-confidence vote in which faculty raised numerous other issues.

The national mental health crisis plaguing colleges is stretching disability support offices, where more students are registering psychological disorders to receive classroom accommodations.

CSU makes public new harassment and abuse cases involving managers at six campuses in California in response to an EdSource records request.

Records show CSU administrators verbally abused and sexually harassed employees at six campuses. Details of the harassment cases were revealed Friday.

CSU makes public new harassment and abuse cases involving managers at six campuses in California in response to an EdSource records request.

False dichotomies, oversimplifications and an ahistorical before-and-after framing are hallmarks of accounts of the humanities’ decline, Harvey J. Graff writes.