The endeavor is yet another attempt by the White House to take aggressive action on immigration and campus antisemitism, in what some view as an effort that suppresses free speech in colleges.

The Education Department plans to reopen applications for income-driven student loan repayment programs as soon as Wednesday, allowing borrowers to once again cap monthly payments based on their income.

Despite shifts in political activism, U.S. colleges remain centers of protests, petitions and campaigns. Each year, the Princeton Review ranks schools by political engagement. See which campuses top the list.

Dismantling the agency could disrupt programs and protections that millions of students and families rely on, including federal Pell grants for low-income students, other key forms of financial aid and campus civil rights protections.

By next season, when college football’s more professionalized era arrives, the historic powerhouses like Ohio State and Texas stand to lose both their decades-long inherent recruiting advantage (their historical brand) and the financial edge they used in this unruly, booster-fueled NIL Era: Donor cash.

When Darren Hick, a philosophy professor, first came across an AI-generated essay in late 2022, he knew it was just the start of something bigger. Almost two years later, Hick says the use of AI among students has become a “virus.” “All plagiarism has become AI plagiarism at this point,” Hick, who teaches philosophy at […]

In his new book, “Degrees of Risk: Navigating Insecurity and Inequality in Public Higher Education,” sociology professor Blake R. Silver examines some of many ways that college students can slip through the cracks at public colleges and universities. In the following Q&A with The Conversation U.S., Silver expounds on what he discovered while doing research […]

Higher education advocates in Latino communities say they are optimistic about a new federal effort to support hundreds of local colleges and universities. Hispanic-serving institutions, or HSIs, which are not-for-profit schools with a full-time equivalent undergraduate student enrollment that is at least a quarter Hispanic, are vital to the goals of equality in educational and […]