The races/ethnicities fueling this growth were Latinx applicants (13%) and Black or African Americans (12%).

Key lawmakers from both major parties say they’d be open to the idea, describing legacy admissions — in which schools give priority to students whose family members once attended there — as fundamentally unfair. “This landscape is shifting very quickly on legacy” admissions, said Sen. Derek Slap, D-West Hartford, who chairs the legislature’s Higher Education […]

Rice University has set aside $33.75 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed against 17 prestigious private universities across the country accused of illegally running a scheme that limited the amount of financial aid given to students, according to the school’s financial statements for last year. Nine former students who attended some of the universities filed a […]

The system designed to handle allegations of sexual assault on college campuses is badly broken. Over the past 15 years, the rules have changed dramatically depending on whether a Democrat or a Republican occupies the White House; in March, they will change again. But the fundamental premise is the same: an adversarial system that pits one […]