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How a Mass. nonprofit helps ready students of color for top colleges

Thrive Scholars is a college preparatory program founded 20 years ago with the goal of helping students of color from low-income households — defined...

Interim chancellor selected for Henderson State University

He will succeed Dr. Chuck Ambrose who announced on July 31 that he was resigning after serving two years in the role. Dr. Bob Fisher...

Solar field to generate 18% of Pitt’s campus power

"That equates to roughly removing over 3,300 gasoline-powered cars off the road every year," said Scott Bernotas, the University of Pittsburgh vice chancellor of...

Howard University officials address the crime, violence near campus

Howard University officials said Tuesday they are committed to increased security on campus after two reported incidents happened last weekend that were instigated by...

Florida students and professors say a new law censors academic freedom. They’re suing to stop it

College students and professors in Florida are suing education officials over a new law spurred by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ war on “woke,” saying...

Michigan State finds an observatory from 142 years ago buried on campus

In June, construction workers on the university’s campus in East Lansing, Mich., unexpectedly came across the foundation of the building, constructed in 1881. But...

‘This is a calling’: Two HBCUs in the nation’s capital get new presidents

Two 53-year-old academic leaders are taking the helm this summer at the two historically Black universities in the nation’s capital. One is a newcomer...

Opinion | At a college targeted by DeSantis, Gender Studies is out, jocks are in

Given that Rufo frames the New College takeover as a demonstration project to be repeated by red states nationwide, I’d expect attempts to scrap...

US universities launch partnership to elevate free speech to counter threats to democracy

The presidents of a wide-ranging group of 13 universities are elevating free speech on their campuses this academic year, as part of a new...

U.S. Department of Education reaffirms Baylor’s religious exemption in response to sexual harassment complaints

After LGBTQ+ students filed several Title IX discrimination complaints against the Waco-based university — in one case for failing to address homophobic harassment by...

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