A poll found that two-thirds of 14- to 23-year-old students want a degree to provide financial security. Colleges have been slow to react to this shift in the mind-set.
The chancellor of North Carolina’s flagship university strongly indicated the school won’t return a torn-down Confederate statue to the main quad where it used to stand.
Nearly 17 million students head to college this fall. About half are financially independent from their parents, and nearly one in four is a parent caring for a child.
Two institutions grapple with how they should deal with revelations of faculty members' histories of sexual misconduct. Court orders reinstatement of one.
Class action suit says College Board's use of recycled questions hurt all test takers. Some push for scores from August to be abandoned; advocates for international students say they are being scapegoated.