More than 30 education and college access groups are calling on the U.S. Department of Education to begin collecting new data from colleges on the race and ethnicity of prospective and admitted students. The call comes ahead of an expected U.S. Supreme Court decision restricting the use of race-conscious admissions. In a letter published last week, advocacy […]

Brown University now explicitly prohibits discrimination on the basis of caste, joining a number of US colleges and universities in shoring up protections against an ill-understood, insidious form of oppression.

The 41-page lawsuit alleges that the school pressured current and former students to withdraw while turning a blind eye to their mental health disabilities.

President Emeritus James Wright, a Marine Corps veteran who served as Dartmouth's 16th president from 1998 to 2009, and went on to make it possible for thousands of military veterans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq to earn their college degrees, died at his Hanover home.