The Charlotte-based Duke Endowment announced a $24 million grant to Davidson College that will expand a scholarship program that recruits students with “exceptional abilities” to the liberal arts school.

While many understood that the process favored wealthier students, few realized the extent to which the playing field was tilted in the alleged multimillion-dollar scheme.

Certain kinds of students — but not the privileged and the wealthy — benefit greatly from a selective university.

The admissions fraud investigation is just the latest in a string of revelations that have eroded trust in what is portrayed as a meritocratic system.

No need to donate buildings or pay bribes. At Boston University, Carleton, George Washington and Wesleyan, merely paying full tuition can offer a leg up.

Once sacrosanct, the SAT and ACT have become optional at hundreds of colleges. Will the admissions bribery scandal make them even less relevant?

The original tipster who led federal authorities to the biggest college-admissions scam they’ve ever prosecuted was Morrie Tobin, a Los Angeles resident who was being investigated in a securities fraud case.

The problem is 'wealthy parents who are robbing underrepresented groups of opportunities to climb.'

Plaintiffs claim that universities failed to protect the admissions process.

Here are answers to some common questions about the college admissions scandal, and what some NC university officials have to say about the potential for corruption here.

For parents without great wealth, the higher-education system looks much different.

Not all tactics parents use to send their kids to elite colleges are illegal.

Popular alternative-academic career platform was bought last year by the foundation behind the recently uncovered undergraduate admissions scheme.

“I think it is unfair that people could just buy their way in,” the student, Dylan Chidick, said of the admissions scandal that has roiled the country.

The share of college applicants and students filing for financial aid has increased dramatically in recent years, but many who most need assistance are submitting their paperwork too late to get the funds, according to a new analysis.

Macalester College's graduating class will hear a commencement speaker this year who also addressed them during their freshman year. Officials say the encore speech brings the students’ educational journey full circle.

Ex-president of Indiana's Saint Mary’s College says board chair forced her out and that college has reneged on faculty job it promised.

A professor of political science at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln confronts “a bit of a dark moment for me.”