The trends at Mines and CU Boulder paint a fuzzy picture of whether banning legacy admissions elsewhere would increase campus diversity or provide more opportunity for students from marginalized backgrounds. Complicating the picture: Colorado public universities changed several other policies at the same time, including making test scores such as the SAT and ACT exams […]

As the hurricane lands in the United States, it will be carving its path through Florida and up through coastal Georgia and the Carolinas. 

Political interference and declining enrollment, two of higher education's most formidable trends, have already begun to impact several colleges and universities this Fall—and at one major university system, the two are coalescing.

Following a brief moment where the wrong person was arrested – an unsuspecting individual who missed the shelter-in-place alerts – campus police confirmed that the gunman had been taken into custody around 10 minutes from the scene. The suspect, identified as graduate student Tailei Qi, has now been charged with first-degree murder. Law enforcement arrived […]