Winners over the past decade include an 8-year-old girl (barely beating a 68-year-old woman) and a 72-year-old man.

Protests of conservatives speakers at colleges has prompted new policies that penalize disruptions, putting academia on the front lines of the left-right culture wars.

The Trump administration is using its legal muscle to aid college students who say their free-speech rights have been violated on campus, diving into a politically charged battle over whether school discipline and safety policies are hindering expression.

Decades of law and tradition made college debt immune from the bankruptcy process. With hundreds of thousands of people buckling under the burden, more judges are questioning whether that rule is too harsh. Some are starting to find ways help to debtors.

The billionaire is inventing a new brand of philanthropic power.

Starbucks learned that four hours of training is not enough. A semester is not enough. A lifetime is not enough. When the subject of study is ourselves, we never fully arrive because there is always more we can learn from each other.

The "diversity and inclusion" mania is centered on the notion that certain groups of people must be sheltered from ideas that might make them feel bad.

In its quest to find a sustainable business model, online course provider edX will test charging users for access to previously free content. Observers say the move was inevitable.

After a woman tweeted a screen shot of the student’s digital overture, other women said they’d received similar messages. The University of Iowa says it “takes these allegations seriously and is working to learn more.”

In private, John Engler seethed with the thought that victims of sexual abuse were being manipulated by trial lawyers.