Are we really focusing on the roots of America’s racial problems, or just working ourselves up over a single symptom?

Flight 3407, which departed from Newark for Buffalo, sparked one of the largest overhauls to federal aviation safety in decades.

Hard work and discipline help girls outperform boys in class, but that advantage disappears in the work force. Is school the problem?

Like Harvard, the school has trouble defending an admissions policy that ill-serves minority students.

U.S. colleges and universities brought in a record $46.7 billion in donations last fiscal year, fueled by stock market gains and strategically timed gifts allowing donors to prepare for changes in tax laws.

College art museums are more likely to display donated works, keep collections together and incorporate pieces into their academic curriculum.

Free college “promise” programs are proliferating amid a crisis in affordability and a tight labor market.

Outside awards can lead to scholarship displacement, which reduces the amount of a school’s aid package.

Dual-enrollment programs are expanding to a younger and more diverse group of students to help boost graduation rates.

John C. Calhoun was a South Carolina statesman who vigorously defended slavery in the years preceding the Civil War.

Hundreds of political scientists back colleague who accused lieutenant governor; Duke removes him from an advisory board; new accusation made about Duke failing to respond to rape report; racist yearbook photos found at more institutions.

Resident assistants at University of Michigan are worried about not being able to remove racist or other offensive language from dormitory doors. Officials say they can't suppress free expression.

Nearly six years after Middlebury rejected a push to divest, the college announces that it will slowly draw down fossil fuel holdings in its $1 billion endowment. What changed?

After a professor at Augsburg University was suspended for using a slur from a James Baldwin essay, academics are torn on how far academic freedom should extend.