As educational institutions across the country wrestle with their ties to slavery, Dartmouth College is taking a closer look at the darkest corners of its history.

The University of Southern Mississippi will award a posthumous honorary degree to a black U.S. Army veteran who was rejected when he tried to integrate the school decades ago.

The budding artists in Columbia University’s visual art MFA program didn’t expect their supplies to melt from excessive heat, or that they would be flooded out of their studios, or that they would live in fear of plaster falling from the ceiling.

Nondenominational Christian colleges have often defined themselves less by their religious doctrine than by their position as outsiders. Naomi Schaefer Riley reviews “Fundamentalist U” by Adam Laats.

CSU President Tony Frank apologized to the young men who had police called on them during a campus tour.

The 18-year-old Coker college student who claimed a student-athlete on the soccer team raped her in a dorm bathroom during a party has been charged with filing a false police report, according to police.

College admissions is cruel. Not because a bunch of privileged kids got waitlisted at Penn. But because K-12 schools continue to measure themselves too much by college admissions.

When one scholar's “lame” joke in a crowded elevator was another’s offensive comment, a disciplinary society was asked to adjudicate. Now, a political scientist won't apologize.

More than 150 readers wrote in to share their stories.

Higher education helped build Kevin Runner’s fortune, he says, and now he plans to give back — by resurrecting the campus of a defunct Kentucky college as a training ground for a sustainable future.