Borrowing arguments that were once the province of liberals, conservatives have used the First Amendment to justify everything from campaign spending to attacks on the regulation of tobacco and guns.
Privacy rules that keep colleges from notifying parents of a students’ distress may be costing lives. Some solutions include granting permission in advance or having a friend alert the family.
Academic honors for graduates of many elite U.S. colleges have become so common that some administrators, and even students, say cum laude and similar designations have become watered down.
As student debt mounts and a shortage of skilled workers persists, students find their local two-year institution could be a lower-cost shortcut to a good job.
As Texas A&M University faces backlash from current and former students over its handling of sexual assault allegations, records since 2003 show that 20 students were allowed to continue attending classes after the school found them responsible for sexual misconduct.
Advocates for more postsecondary data say the support of John Cornyn, the No. 2 Senate Republican, for the College Transparency Act makes an overturn of a federal ban on student unit records appear inevitable -- if still a ways off.
University of California, Irvine, says it will remove former professor's name from the science institutions he helped build after finding he harassed women.