A video of Alexander McNab being pinned down by security officers is adding to a broader conversation about how students of color are treated at one of the nation’s most prominent universities.

If Prof. Vedder signed up for his own school’s 100 level pre-med courses, like biology, chemistry, or physics, I’m confident he’d reach a different conclusion. The only students in those courses who don’t work hard are the 50%-60% who withdraw before the midterm.

The religious right closed ranks around the vice president as some students, faculty and alumni expressed concern about his planned appearance at Taylor University in Upland, Ind.

North Carolina women's basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell had built a Hall of Fame career over more than three decades with the Tar Heels, including a national championship and becoming the Atlantic Coast Conference's all-time winningest coach.

A chemistry professor whose exam question asked students to calculate the lethal dose of a poisonous gas used in Nazi gas chambers during the Holocaust has taken a leave of absence, Middlebury College said.

The for-profit sector is collapsing, a possible omen of things to come for public and nonprofit schools.

College graduates—or venture-capital recipients?

Rich parents bribing their kids' way into elite schools shows how college admissions is anything but a meritocracy. But the flipside is how poor and working-class kids face barrier after barrier to attending higher education at all, as this advisor to first-generation college students explains.

Students allege that the university is mistreating victims of sexual assault and harassment, especially women and LGBTQ students.

College that is regularly criticized over aborted talk in 2017 again finds itself unable to let a speaker talk. Campus was already unsettled over chemistry exam with question on how to make gas used by Nazis. Middlebury is one of several colleges to have had recent talk disruptions.

Concordia U's Liberal Arts College, in Canada, wanted conservative scholar Harvey Mansfield to speak at an alumni gala -- until it didn't. But revoking Mansfield's invite didn't settle an internal debate.

Georgetown’s Red House is offering graduating seniors a set of minicourses to help them bridge the gap between graduation and working life.
 

Citing savings from faculty departures, the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point said it no longer planned to eliminate the programs. But those departures have had their own effects.