America’s second biggest sporting obsession returned this weekend, with marching bands, 100,000-seat stadiums, ancient rivalries and, increasingly, the operating model of a sport being invented in real time
For many public colleges and universities in California, keeping their campuses safe includes owning military-grade weaponry: AR-15s, stun grenades designed to cause temporary blindness and...
New College of Florida, which is controlled by the governor’s hand-picked board of trustees, will acquire the Sarasota-Manatee campus of the University of South Florida next month.
They all begin college with hope, and leave without the credential they believed would shape the rest of their lives due to financial instability, family, illness.
The move follows the DOJ’s recent findings that the medical schools at the University of California, Los Angeles and Yale University illegally used race in their admissions.
Department of Justice said an investigation found that Black and Hispanic students have a much higher chance of admission to the medical school than white or Asian students, despite having lower grade-point averages and lower test scores.
The agreement ends the Justice Department’s investigation, with UVA pledging not to engage in unlawful racial discrimination in admissions, hiring or other programs and to submit relevant data to the department every quarter through 2028.
University of California faculty, staff and students sued the Trump administration, accusing it of using civil rights laws to curb free speech and academic freedom. The lawsuit follows a $1.2 billion funding freeze against UCLA.
As Trump pressures elite universities, HBCUs are seeing more Black students drawn to campuses that affirm their history and identity. But limited financial aid remains a major challenge.
A report by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression found that more than 1,000 U.S. college students were punished for their speech between 2020 and 2024, with 63% facing disciplinary actions.
