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Surprise! A class of college seniors learns tuition will be free

The first day of the semester at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York on Tuesday came with...

At 2 elite colleges, shifts in racial makeup after affirmative action ban

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.

Historically Black medical schools land a $600 million donation

Bloomberg Philanthropies gives what are thought to be record-breaking gifts to the endowments of Meharry Medical College, Morehouse and Howard University.

Bennington to revive dance program of closed Philadelphia arts school

Bennington College raised nearly $1.3 million to absorb the dance program of the University of the Arts, which shuttered suddenly in June.

A TV show set up a fake campus protest. Then real protesters arrived

A police procedural drama staged a tent encampment for a film shoot at Queens College. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators felt it trivialized their movement.

Campus protests led to more than 3,100 arrests, but many charges have been dropped

Even as charges have been dropped, some students are facing additional consequences, like being barred from their campuses or having their diplomas withheld.

To bring back a college football video game, it took 11,000 paydays

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.

Students kissed her feet for good luck. Now she’s missing her head

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.

Trump says he would give green cards to all foreign college students at graduation

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.”

The battle over college speech will outlive the encampments

For the first time since the Vietnam War, university demonstrations have led to a rethinking of who sets the terms for language in academia.

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