One thing that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, especially today on Veterans Day, is what it means to have a platform.

Transworld has been one of most prolific debt collectors, filing more than 38,000 lawsuits in the last three years on behalf of a single client. Many were flawed, say regulators.

The surge in foreign student enrollment that has bolstered diversity and finances on U.S. campuses for the past decade is starting to slow—and concerns that the Trump administration is tightening its borders is only one factor in the turning tide.

The state must create a plan to remedy the lack of investment in its historically black colleges and universities to resolve a decade-old lawsuit over inequality in public higher education.

The president of Dartmouth College says the sexual misconduct allegations against three psychology professors do not involve anyone — including students — who participated in their research projects.

Kennesaw State which moved its football cheerleaders inside a stadium tunnel after a group of black cheer squad members knelt during the national anthem has decided to let them again take the field during pre-game ceremonies.

Responding to a recent spate of racial incidents, Kansas State University will suspend classes on Tuesday afternoon for a campuswide rally against racism to be hosted by student leaders and keynoted by university President Richard Myers.

After bearing the burden of a life-altering trauma for 16 years, Brenda Tracy has, over the past 16 months, become the nation’s leading advocate in the fight against sexual violence in college football.

Students of color are speaking out about the hardship of being enrolled at institutions with titles that honor histories of racial discrimination.

A new sculpture project thoughtfully grapples with the school’s participation in slavery.

What’s to be done about the numerous reports of faculty misconduct dating back years and even decades?

Recent closures make it more likely a trend of private college consolidation has started. Institutions feeling particular pressure are small colleges, those in the Midwest and Roman Catholic institutions located away from Catholic population centers.

Ohio State University has accused 83 students in its Fischer College of Business of cheating. The students are said to have used the messaging app GroupMe -- used for large group chats -- to facilitate “unauthorized collaboration on graded assignments,” according to the university statement given to The Columbus Dispatch. “Students are welcome to use social media tools like GroupMe to communicate with classmates but must remember that the rules are the same for online and in-person interactions,” OSU spokesman Ben Johnson told the Dispatch. “Students should not share anything online that is prohibited by the rules for the course.” The exact way that students collaborated, and what exactly they were sharing on GroupMe, is not clear.

A faculty grievance committee at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill determined that administrators there interfered with the scheduling of a course on big-time college sports and the rights of athletes, inconsistent with academic freedom, according to The News & Observer. Jay Smith, a professor of history and a critic of the university’s handling of its own academic scandal involving paper classes, accused his dean and others of pressuring his department into not offering his course, first offered in 2016, again this year. Department emails that have been made public suggest the department feared “blowback” from offering the course again, lest it put the campus in a bad light. The paper classes scandal at Chapel Hill didn’t exclusively involve athletes, but many were enrolled, and it was a topic in Smith’s class. The course was added to the spring 2018 schedule a few weeks after Smith filed the grievance. The faculty committee concluded that the course aroused “an extraordinary amount of attention” from a dean and former associate dean, and that Smith’s department chair interpreted the attention as pressure to keep the course off the schedule. “The irregular procedures that had been followed in the scheduling of my class were so outside departmental and college norms that someone had to answer for it, and the committee obviously saw it my way,” Smith reportedly said. Joanne Peters Denny, university spokesperson, declined comment on the individual faculty grievance case, citing state employee privacy laws. In general, she said, the faculty grievance committee “makes recommendations to the appropriate administrative officials who must accept those recommendations for them to be final.” As for academic freedom, Peters Denny said that “Carolina has a steadfast commitment to academic freedom and shared governance, and we respect the grievance rights of all faculty to ensure that these principles are upheld. Under the shared governance model, faculty and administrators must work collaboratively to determine the curriculum and course priorities consistent with the needs of each department, school, the university and our students.”

A Chronicle investigation shows how political allies and lawyers have maneuvered to keep tens of millions of GI Bill dollars flowing to a for-profit university.

One of the men died in 2007, and the other former professor called his accuser’s claim "utterly false."

Academe is full of Petruchios looking for their next Kate.

It might have something to do with the handmade sign by the walkway: “Abandon hope all ye who enter.”