Davidson College

Davidson College Republicans invited a former Trump administration official to campus. You might not believe what I did after his talk. | Opinion

Schools should admit students on merit — not the willingness to commit early.

A dwindling number of prospective students will drive as many as 370 private colleges in the US to shutter or merge with another institution in the next decade, according to a major higher-education consulting firm.

Vanderbilt University, a happy ‘unicorn’ of higher education, is drawing fire from its peers for not standing up to the White House.

Amid Trump administration attacks on free speech, more students—predominantly conservatives—say they don’t think controversial speakers should be given a platform on campus. College students—particularly those who identify as conservative—are less likely to tolerate controversial speech than they were last year, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s annual survey.

The university’s fiscal challenges are emblematic of a broader paradigm shift for some of academe’s wealthiest and most selective institutions.