Some colleges are putting a new twist on the admissions process with Early Decision II, inviting students with pending applications to commit early if they are accepted.
Walt Disney, Taco Bell and Discover are among the companies offering to pay upfront to cover the cost of a college degree for their front-line workers, looking to retain talent in a tight labor market.
As Congress takes up anti-lynching legislation decades after the first efforts to make it a federal crime, students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are wearing nooses to protest the Confederate monument on campus known as Silent Sam.
Lawyers for former College of Charleston baseball coach Matt Heath have accused athletic director Matt Roberts of lying and destroying evidence related to Heath’s firing.
College leaders often aren't the top hindrance to campus protests that have proliferated in recent years -- holiday breaks, finals week and graduation tend to be the biggest challenge for student activists.
Economists and its main association face criticism that the field's power centers are a small number of top departments. Grad students, meanwhile, push for standards of conduct.
