Social justice activists say they want to bring about a golden age. The road to the golden city always requires more gold from our pockets to pay the activists’ salaries. Social justice activists always work to create more activists. Everything they do in higher education has an eye to the bottom line—seizing control of general education requirements, of departments, of administrative offices. They want to do well for themselves as they do what they think is good.

Adama Barrow reneged on a promise to step down as president after three years and not five. The constitution puts him on fairly firm ground but citizens of post-dictatorship Gambia are determined to hold him to his word.

The banners were on the graves of soldiers who fought for the South in the Civil War.

Students take challenges along when they spend a semester abroad and need to be prepared to take care of themselves in a new setting and a new language.

Income-share agreements, promoted by Betsy DeVos and Silicon Valley, may wind up merely shifting the payment burden from some students to others.

Students across America wondered whether an executive order targeting anti-Semitism would “backfire” on Jewish students.

Ms. Murray’s letter can’t obscure the fact that this restriction of academic freedom was one of the most shameful events in Holy Cross’s long history as a college of liberal arts.

You pay in advance—often with a guarantee funds will grow to meet future college costs—but there are a host of requirements.

While reporting on how to fix college admissions, we asked Wall Street Journal readers for their recommendations. Several hundred, including some in the thick of application season, responded.

LSU quarterback Joe Burrow, who is likely to win the Heisman Trophy on Saturday, is a graduate transfer who takes his classes online.

University of Georgia officials determined a Clemson University-bound student visiting the Athens campus was responsible for drawing swastikas on student doors inside a residence hall last month. He won't face criminal charges, officials noted in a statement.

Harvard denied beloved professor Lorgia García Peña tenure. Now, ethnic studies scholars and students are protesting not only the decision, but also the fact that the university still doesn’t have a proper ethnic studies department.

A fraternity at Indiana University in Bloomington is under investigation for allegations of physical assault and anti-Semitic and racial slurs.

The UNC Board of Governors deal to give the Silent Sam statue and $2.5 million to the Sons of Confederate Veterans is alien and horrific to every university community in the nation.

A major foundation donor says it pulled a $1.5 million grant slated for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after news broke of the controversial deal between UNC system leaders and a neo-Confederate group over the monument known as "Silent Sam."

College enrollment continues to decline, according to data released Monday. Small colleges have been forced to close; others are getting creative when it comes to finding and keeping students.

College is leaving the popular program for diversifying the student body. Many students aren't happy about the change.

Kevin M. Guskiewicz was named on Friday to the job permanently after 10 months as the interim head. His former faculty colleagues have faulted his response to the controversial deal over Silent Sam.