Every year, university admissions officers read and sort through tens of thousands of essays. It’s a long, arduous process. Now, some researchers say an artificial intelligence tool may be able to help admissions officers sort through essays and recognize prospective students who might previously have gone unrecognized. The application is a long way off from […]

The goal, according to the campaign, was to engage with a voting bloc that has potential for impact in New Hampshire but has been often ignored by Republicans. Christie’s pitch for New Hampshire students was a continuation of his message against Donald Trump during the latest debate, when he called the former president “unfit for […]

“It was terrifying. I can’t even begin to explain,” UNLV professor Kevaney Martin said. “I was trying to hold it together for my students, and trying not to cry, but the emotions are something I never want to experience again.”

Support for the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and M.I.T. eroded quickly on Wednesday, after they seemed to evade what seemed like a rather simple question during a contentious congressional hearing: Would they discipline students calling for the genocide of Jews? Their lawyerly replies to that question and others during a four-hour hearing […]