The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what to do when you haven’t been admitted to the colleges of your choice.

How racial separatism become the norm at elite universities like Yale, Brown and Wesleyan.

The University of Cambridge said on Tuesday it would conduct a two-year academic study of how it benefited from or validated the Atlantic slave trade and other forms of coerced labor during the colonial era.

Students call for administrators to cancel planned 3.4% hike in price tag for the next academic year.

In more than a dozen academic fields—largely STEM related—not a single black student earned a doctoral degree in 2017.

State coffers are fuller, and colleges are getting creative to recruit from a smaller pool of potential students.

Preliminary findings of a University of California Berkeley researcher’s study suggest college students are increasingly more anxious, unraveled by financial uncertainty, social media and other factors.

Students at Swarthmore -- angry over reports of sexual violence and leaks of internal fraternity emails -- are demanding administrators kick out Greek groups.

New research finds that while food insecurity among college students is a serious problem, studies on the issue may not provide accurate estimates of its magnitude.

The publication of sexist, racist, and homophobic documents, apparently written by campus fraternity members, have prompted students to demand that the college’s two fraternities be banned.

About 20,000 young people age out of foster care every year. Great Expectations, a project at 21 Virginia community colleges, offers the support they desperately need.