The paradox of the overzealous editing of the college essay by many helicopter parents is that they don’t know what a college essay is really about.

The Edit contributors weigh in on the sexual assault allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh and what conversations about consent look like on their campuses.

How Ivy League resentments took over the Kavanaugh debate.

How three scholars gulled academic journals to publish hoax papers on ‘grievance studies.’

An Adidas executive paid the families of top high-school basketball players to induce them to attend schools with Adidas sponsorships, his defense lawyer told a Manhattan jury, conceding a violation of NCAA rules.

A planned event on sexual violence among children to be held at Catholic University was postponed after a dean at the school was suspended for a comment on social media questioning a female accuser of Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.

The University of Montana is facing a $966,614 penalty for reporting "inaccurate and misleading" crime statistics — on everything from liquor violations to rape — from 2012 to 2015, according

"It appears that what students do in college is far more important than the type of institution they attend."

Report says international graduate enrollments were down for the second straight year last year, after a period of significant growth. Experts said it's hard to ignore the Trump factor.

A growing number of colleges are trying to help poor students meet their basic needs and remove barriers that keep them from graduating.

Those are the three ways colleges and universities can respond in the face of the disruption that some predict could capsize many of them, write Eli Bildner and Allison Dulin Salisbury. They offer advice for staying relevant.

Christine Fair said “entitled white men” like those defending Brett Kavanaugh merit “miserable deaths while feminists laugh.” In a statement the university recognized free-speech rights, condemned violent imagery, but did not