UB Staff

Erasing the “Black spot”: How a Virginia college expanded by uprooting a Black neighborhood

Katie Luck was sitting in her yard under a magnolia tree one afternoon in April when a school bus passed by. A white elementary...

The new reality for college dining halls: Dozens of dietary restrictions

One in six students at Michigan State University has an allergy or other dietary restriction. Just five years ago, it was one in eight.

Texas and Florida schools excluded from LGBTQ-friendly college list over new state laws

Campus Pride, the nonprofit group that publishes the annual list, said the laws are “needlessly endangering the safety and well-being of students” in those states.

Higher education levels linked with civic engagement, better health

Those with higher education levels are linked with more civic engagement and better physical health, according to a new analysis from Gallup.

20 fun college campuses for tailgaiting

Known for their traditions and game day experiences, these colleges go big when it comes to tailgating.

College students are still struggling with basic math. Professors blame the pandemic

Diego Fonseca looked at the computer and took a breath. It was his final attempt at the math placement test for his first year of college. Functions and trigonometry came easily, but the basics gave him trouble.

College students assess how safe they feel after recent shootings

In the wake of mass shooting on college campuses, students speak to their concerns about guns, and how to create a space in which they are safe.

College professor harassed students to quench ‘clown fetish,’ offering extra credit, cash

“I have a facepaint fetish and convince the cute girls in my classes to let me paint their faces,” he once wrote. He submitted his resignation the same day student journalists exposed his behavior.

Did Colorado’s legacy admissions ban help more students go to college?

The trends at Mines and CU Boulder paint a fuzzy picture of whether banning legacy admissions elsewhere would increase campus diversity or provide more...

West Virginia’s foreign language cuts could be a “blueprint” for higher ed attacks

It's no secret that language study enrollment has been declining for decades—a result of translation software that makes communication easy and the growing worship of...

Can we make college campuses safer? Expert advice after recent shootings

On one campus, a community is hailing some of its members as heroes, even as it grieves the loss of life nearby. On another, students...

Harvard, Harvey Mudd top Washington Monthly’s 2023 college rankings

There was considerable reshuffling of this year’s top 25 compared to the 2022 rankings. Harvard, which was sixth last year, replaced Stanford in the...

University of Michigan working ‘around the clock’ to fix internet outage, could take days

On the first day of the new semester, tens of thousands of students, faculty, staff and administrators struggled to access their university accounts, class schedules, email,...

A new college term, a faculty member killed and a student arrested: What we know about the UNC shooting

Following a brief moment where the wrong person was arrested – an unsuspecting individual who missed the shelter-in-place alerts – campus police confirmed that...

Resident assistants at Tufts University plan to go on strike on move-in day Tuesday

The union that represents resident assistants at Tufts University is planning to go on strike on move-in day on Tuesday, August 29. OPEIU Local 153...