States attempt to guide how colleges and universities support speech while students say diversity is an equally important part of the campus environment.
Anthony Kronman, former dean of Yale Law School and a current professor, argues that the feverish egalitarianism pervasive on today's college campuses is out of place at institutions whose job is to prepare citizens to live in a vibrant democracy.
By not letting our students wander through the academic disciplines, we may be doing them a disservice. We may be depriving them of opportunities to see the world in multiple ways and to value the perspectives of other disciplines and cultures, says guest columnist Ned Ladd, a professor of physics and astronomy at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Transgender college students suffer mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self-harm and thoughts of suicide at far higher rates than do their classmates who identify as the gender they were assigned at birth, a new study says.
Criticism has driven The College Board to overhaul a higher ed effort to consider the impact of neighborhood crime, high school quality, family income, property values and other factors as part of a student's SAT score.
For a growing number of college students—as well as some faculty and staff—concerns about where their next meal will come from make it difficult to focus on studies or work. As food insecurity rises on campus, leaders launch programs to end it.
