United States Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the College of Charleston as part of her "Fight for Our Freedoms" college tour, the school announced Thursday. The visit will come on Wednesday, Oct. 11. The event will be held in the Sottile Theatre, beginning at 1 p.m. Harris' tour touches on critical issues such as […]

A group of professors at Vassar, the historic US women's college in New York, tried for years to internally resolve an issue of being paid less than their male counterparts but now they have finally resorted to legal action, a lawyer for the group said. Vassar has been hit with a federal lawsuit brought by five senior female […]

"This raises challenging questions about unequal access to the best university education across America and the implications for social mobility and economic disparities between US regions," said Phil Baty, THE's Chief global affairs officer.

What the economic statistics obscure in the averages is that there is not one but two Americas — and a clear line demarcating the division is educational attainment. Americans with four-year college degrees are flourishing economically, while those without are struggling. Worse still, as we discovered in new research, the America of those without college […]