The Trump administration cut about half the work force of the agency, saying the move would enable it to deliver services more effectively. The attorneys general called the move “reckless and illegal.”
Amherst College and Tufts University saw drops in the number of Black students after a Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action. At other schools, the picture is murkier.
Bloomberg Philanthropies gives what are thought to be record-breaking gifts to the endowments of Meharry Medical College, Morehouse and Howard University.
A police procedural drama staged a tent encampment for a film shoot at Queens College. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators felt it trivialized their movement.
Even as charges have been dropped, some students are facing additional consequences, like being barred from their campuses or having their diplomas withheld.
More than a decade after N.C.A.A. Football was shelved amid legal challenges, the rebranded franchise is back. For the first time, the real-life players are getting paid.
A replica of the Athena Giustiniani that greeted students at Wells College for more than 150 years was accidentally decapitated in the scramble to close the institution forever.
His campaign later walked back the former president’s comments, saying that there would be an “aggressive vetting process” that would “exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges” and that the policy would apply only to the “most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions to America.”
Despite the popular image of this generation—that of Greta Thunberg and the Parkland activists—as one driven by idealism, GenZ students at these schools appear to be strikingly corporate-minded.
Long before the Education Department’s overhaul of the federal student aid application fell apart this year, officials who now lead the department were warned of a complex and time-consuming effort and its potential pitfalls.
Here are a few of the editorials that have been written by student newspapers in the last couple of weeks as tensions have escalated at several campuses.
