The endowment funds of Ivy League universities have put billions of dollars into so-called alternative assets. New data shows the strategy isn’t working.

A reader takes issue with a picture of the schools as elite stepchildren to Brown and Yale.

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Dartmouth College will respond to a recent lawsuit accusing it of ignoring professors' sexual misconduct with a sweeping plan to combat harassment and assault, the president of the Ivy League college said.

Before a critical meeting over a Confederate monument at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, former UNC athletes including basketball stars Vince Carter and Jerry Stackhouse, condemned the proposal to return a divisive statue to campus.

More than 100 former and current UNC-Chapel Hill student-athletes have signed an open letter condemning the university’s recent proposal to put the Silent Sam statue in a new $5.3 million building on campus.

As the agency gears up to help students left in the lurch by the collapse of Education Corp. of America, some experts wonder whether more could have been done to shield students and taxpayers from the abrupt shutdown.

Spelman College to use $30 million for new arts center

Wisconsin built a public higher-education system that was admired around the world. But it may not withstand a tech-hungry economy.

A year ago, over beers, a pair of young instructors began a project that opened a window on a campaign against America that continues unabated

Bennett College will have to appeal to keep its accreditation, while St. Augustine's was taken off probation. Although the historically black institutions' fates may be different, both struggled under the same pressures.

College credentials still loom large in hiring. But a new survey of HR leaders finds growing interest in skills-based hiring, online microcredentials and prehire assessments.

Chapel Hill’s chancellor could signal moral clarity by refusing to display a Confederate monument on the campus. But some fear that would guarantee her dismissal, making a tense situation worse.